Tombstone Tuesday ~ ACHESON ~ Ireland

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.