As you can see the beautifully sculpted top of this gravestone has come off and is now resting in front of the stone itself. It must have been a very impressive monument in its day with elegant pillars down the side. I think the family must have a connection with the one in an earlier blogpost here.
Here is the text as I read it:
Sacred to the memory of
John Garnock Tod
beloved son of William Tod
who died 27th May 1920
aged 44 years
William Tod, died 21st May 1925
for 34 years
keeper of North Esk Reservoir
aged 73 years
David Garnock
son of John Garnock
died 31st July 1924, aged 74 years
Margaret Farquhar
wife of David Garnock
interred in Old Deer Churchyard
16th June 1927
Katherine Graham Garnock
widow of H.J. Forer (?)
died 29th Feb 1932
interred Dean Cemetary
Maria Theresa B. Garnock
widow of William Tod
died 4th August 1936 aged 84.
The position of keeper of the North Esk Reservoir seems to have been a heriditary one, passing from father to son.
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