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Monument Inscription
Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF
MY MOTHER
AGNES GORDON WOOD
WHO DIED 2ND NOVEMBER 1912
AND MY FATHER
JOSEPH JOHN LOGAN
DIED 3RD JULY 1924
Family History
This handsome granite stone was erected by an unnamed person in memory of his or her parents who lie beneath its shadow.
The occupants of this lair were both incomers to the parish having their origins in Glasgow. They first come to our attention on their marriage on 25th February, 1890 at the then Registry Office at 178 St Vincent St. Glasgow. This event was carried out by special licence being obtained from the Sheriff Court, having to comply with the statutory timescale of residence required before a normal marriage could take place. The reason for this requirement was possibly caused by the occupation of the bridegroom.
Joseph John Logan was thirty-one years of age at the time of his marriage to Agnes Gordon Wood. Joseph was then holding the position of Chief Steward on the S.S. Clan McDonald. The Clan Shipping Co. was a well known company operating out of Glasgow to India and the Far East. Joseph Logan was a young man to be given the responsibility of such a position at that time. His parents were Joseph Logan, shown as a station master by occupation, and his wife Elizabeth Murray. Peculiarly by the date of Joseph Logan Jnr’s death his father appears to have changed occupations to become a Master Baker and Confectioner, which is perhaps more in keeping with his son’s later choice of work in the catering trade.
His bride Agnes Gordon Wood was two years older than her spouse and stayed with her parents at Cypress Place in Yoker. Her father George was a letterpress printer to trade and her mother was Margaret Brown. Agnes Logan died aged fifty-seven years on 2nd November, 1912.
Joseph Logan remarried a person named Agnes Hall Bain. He died at his then home The Bungalow, Newton Mearns, on 3rd July, 1924 aged sixty-three years. He had suffered a cerebral thrombosis. At the time of his death his occupation was given as a chef.
The Bungalow, Newton Mearns was not only a home for the aforesaid persons but they ran a catering establishment from the premises. Known as The Bungalow Tearoom it not only catered for passing travellers but supplied purvey for special events in the village life such as birthday and anniversary parties. The building, now a private house, still stands to the south of Mearns Cross.