Sophia Cracroft’s lost inscription at Kensal Green Cemetery

Sophia Cracroft’s lost inscription at Kensal Green Cemetery. The late afternoon sun reveals the deeper holes that anchored the letters.

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I gave up with one word remaining, “ATTACHED”, in the 1st line. I sent it to Alison, and she figured it out by finding that 1st of the 6 lines happens to be recorded at a Canadian archive.

The two long words of the bible verse seem questionable; I picked the King James verse that fit best.

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IN MEMORY OF
LADY FRANKLIN
DIED 18 JULY 1875

SOPHIA CRACROFT

THE DEVOTED AND ATTACHED NIECE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
AND CONSTANT AID IN ALL LADY FRANKLIN’S EFFORTS IN.
THE FURTHERANCE OF ARCTIC SEARCH FOR TRACES.
OF HER HUSBAND AND HIS BRAVE COMPANIONS.
DIED 20TH JUNE 1892 AGED 76.

WHEN THIS CORRUPTIBLE SHALL HAVE PUT ON INCORRUPTION.
COR XV. 54

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-LZ

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