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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Andrew
Howie
12 September 1887
62
Craigton
Andrew (1)
Howie
n/a
n/a
Andrew (2)
Howie
n/a
n/a
Jeanie
Muir
16 July 1910
58

Relatives: Husband of Jeanie Muir. Father of Andrew (1) and Andrew (2) Stone Condition: Sound Material: Sandstone Height: 2.14 Breadth: 1 Depth: 0.36 Inscription Condition: Mint Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: W. Scott, Cathcart Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED BY JEANIE MUIR

IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
ANDREW HOWIE, CRAIGTON
WHO DIED 12th SEPTEMBER 1887
ALSO THEIR CHILDREN
BOTH NAMED Andrew,
WHO DIED IN INFANCY.

THE ABOVE
JEANIE MUIR
DIED 16th JULY 1910, AGED 58 YEARS.


“Oh for the touch of a vanished hand
and the sound of a voice that is still”

Family History

Jeanie Maclellan Muir or Howie, who erected this stone to commemorate the death of her husband and two of her children, appears to have been a very resourceful and capable woman.

Widowed in her early thirties, and left with two young sons to raise, she took upon herself the operation and day to day running of the fifty-four acre farm of Low Craigton. The Craigton group of farms, of which there were a total of four in number, were to be found within a complex near to the Walton Dam.

Although born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Jeanie found herself in Mearns at her time of need. There is no trace of her husband Andrew Howie having run a farm in the district prior to his taking over at Low Craigton. His father Alexander Howie had been a cowfeeder by occupation, which was in reality a dairy farmer, and his mother was Jane Strang. This couple had married and lived initially within the parish of East Kilbride.

Andrew, aged sixty-two years, dislocated his spine in an accident, as a result of which he died on 12th September, 1887. His death was registered by his cousin George Howie who lived in the hamlet of Dodside.

Searches have revealed that in the farm adjoining Low Craigton there lived a family also named Muir, the maiden name of Jeanie. What the relationship was between the two parties is not known at present, but is likely they were directly related.

Running the farm with the aid of a dairymaid and a farm servant, Jeanie and her two surviving sons John and James lived there for at least another twenty years until her death in 1910.