IN LOVING MEMORY of
ALEXANDER W. ACHESON
LATE LIEUTENANT 65TH REGT
ALSO DEPUTY COMMISSIONARY
ARMY SERVICE CORPS
WHO DIED 20 JULY 1914
* AGED 82 YEARS
AND HIS GRANDSON
ALEXANDER CHARLES
25TH NOV 1929
AND HIS WIFE CATHERINE
DIED 26TH MAR 1938
** AND HIS SON ALLEN PORTEOUS
LATE QUARTERMASTER SARGENT
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY
DIED 26TH SEPT 1967
AND HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH
DIED 29TH NOV 1986
"THY WILL BE DONE."
* The father of this family, Alexander W ACHESON, who was aged 82 in 1914 at the time of his death, would have been born in 1832.
** Quartermaster-Sergt. A. ACHESON
Photo by A. NACHN, BRADFORD.
The ACHESON clan: There is some question as to whether this ACHESON family is in our line of ACHESON relatives. However, it is an interesting headstone with five family members and three generations. Burial dates are 1914, 1929, 1938, 1967 and 1986.
SOURCES:
1. There is a reference to **Allan Porteous ACHESON in "THE ACHESON FAMILY 1850-1950, published in 1951.by a committee of ten family members.
"Communications with **Allan Porteous Acheson, of Derrygonnelly, near Enniskillen, has brought to us a fund of information, since he, too, is deeply interested in the history of the Acheson Family, . . ." Page 4.2. Photographs and the booklet - "The Acheson Family 1850-1950" - courtesy of an ACHESON cousin.
NOTE: Due to the difference in colour of the top and bottom stone, I wonder if the original top part from 1914 was added to in order to make a larger stone and provide room for the inscriptions of the descendants.
Actually, I had a closer look by magnifying the photograph. It looks like all one headstone that may have been sanded down a little to provide a cleaner surface for the inscriptions of the descendants.
