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Monument Inscription
ERECTED
BY
AGNES T. BLUE
IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
THOMAS CRAIG
WHO DIED IN MANCHESTER
19TH MAY 1885 AGED 39 YEARS
AND THEIR DAUGHTER
JANE
WHO DIED IN MANCHESTER
2ND APRIL 1876, AGED 22 MONTHS
THE ABOVE AGNES BLUE
DIED 15TH NOV. 1923, AGED 79
“LOVED AND LOST AWHILE”
“TILL HE COME”
Family History
This monument, although dedicated to three named persons is erected by the remains of only one of them.
Agnes Thomson Blue was a child of Mearns, having been born and raised there by her parents Alexander Blue and Jane Thomson. Her father worked as a bleacher in one of the many such works that operated in the district over the period of time involved.
Agnes married a young draper by the name of Thomas Craig on 18th July, 1873. Eventually the couple left their home territory probably through work and moved to Manchester. It was in that city that Agnes lost first her twenty-two month old baby daughter Jane in 1876 and subsequently her husband in 1885.
Returning to her family and friends in the Mearns, Agnes was in due course of time to marry again. This new husband was named John Hill, like her father a bleacher by occupation.
Agnes survived a stroke in 1911 for another twelve years before her heart gave out on 15th November, 1923. At the time of her death Agnes was seventy-eight years of age and resided at 4 Maudslie St, Partick, Glasgow. Her death was reported by her daughter Agnes Cunningham of Craiglea, Mount Vernon.