Big stone, suffering cracks and the top badly damaged, but the MI clear, except that several lines (of poetry?) in italics not recorded by Haslewood are not decipherable
To the memory of Martha BURDEN of Stone in the Isle of Oxney, daughter of William CROFT of this parish, who died July the 26th 1812 in the 30th year of her age, leaving three young children and husband to lament their loss of a good wife, and a good mother. [__________] Surviving children Martha, Harriot and Robert.
Haslewood p90
Footstone
M B 1812
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