The text is difficult to read in places but here is what I think it says:
In
loving memory of
Katie Jane daughter of
James Duncan colporteur (at least that's what it looks like to me! See underneath)
who died at West Linton
6(?) February 1914 aged 20 years
Also James
his younger son who died
16th April 1918, aged 33 years
Also the above
James Duncan
who died at West Linton
17th Feb 1923, aged 72 years
and his widow
Ellen Laidlaw
who died at Longniddry
26th Feb 1928 aged 83 years
There is also an inscription on the base of the pedastal but it is now unreadable.
Colporteur (an originally French word) means a peddlar of religious books
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