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"Here lyes Elizabeth the wife of Mr. Thomas Gilbert who died July 18 1743 aged 23 | also his son John Taylor Gilbert who died Nov. 21 1748 aged 3 | also near this place his daughter | Susannah Singleton who died | Feb. 8 1778 aged 20 years and on the 30 May 1778 died Mr. Thomas Gilbert aged 63 years | also Susannah his wife | who died 18th of July, 1802 | aged 74 years. | "
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"In memory of Edgar aged 15 years | son of John Carter of Pinley | died 15 Oct., 1835 Also of Henry | another son aged 33 years | died 21 March 1843 | also of John Carter | father of the above named | Edgar and Henry died November 28 1848 | aged 78 years. | "
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"Here lieth the body of James Jopson son of Joseph and Elizabeth Jopson he died the 15th day of May 1773 | aged 22. | "
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"In | memory of Mr. James Jopson who departed this life | March the 6th 1759 | aged 40 | also four of his children who died in their infancy , also to the memory of Eliza Jopson | wife of the above James Jopson | who departed this life Jan. 1 1768 | aged 52 | "
James Jopson was the originator of the first Coventry newspaper, viz., "Jopson's Coventry Mercury." The first number was issued Monday, July 20, 1741. It was subsequently changed to "Jopson's Coventry and Northampton Mercury," and printed in Northampton. After a short time, the name Northampton was omitted, and it was printed in Coventry. In 1836 it became the property of a company, was printed by Mr. C. A. N. Rollason, and the name changed to the “Coventry Standard” which it still bears. It has always been a Conservative Paper.
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"In memory of Edward Harper | late Alderman of this City | who departed this life the 19th May 1786 | aged 59. Also to the memory of | Ellys Harper | wife of the above | Edward Harper | who departed this life | the 21st of December 1801 | aged 73 years. | "
Ed. Harper was an Apothecary, and Mayor 1778.
