Info directly below from SURVEY OF STAPLEHURST CHURCH YARD1980-1983, UPDATED 1999, REVISED 2009
Leland Duncan’s MI inscriptions of 1922 added 2013”
Headstone, inscribed on West: clear but worn lettering: sound, in situ. Body stone over grave. 2E and 2Flean on it.Sacred / to the memory of / ELIZABETH CARROWAY / who died March 20th 1837 [LD, 29] / aged 56 years. / AlsoJESSE son of / James Carroway / of Chatham / who died Sept. 26th 1832 / aged 22 years. / Whatsoever thy hand findsto do, do it / with thy might, for there is no work / (nor device) nor knowledge nor wisdom in the (grave). / Eccles. 18.9./ Also JAMES BUSS / who died July 14th 1850 aged 64 years. /
Also MARTHA BUSS, wife of the above / who diedSept. 18th 1851 aged 62.PR. Elizabeth Carroway of Staplehurst buried 6 Apr. 1837 aged 56: Jesse Carroway, not mentioned: James Buss buried 16 July 1850 aged 64: Martha Buss buried 25 Sept. 1851 aged 62. (NB: should be Eccles. 9.10.).
https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/mi/pdf/_All_Saints_Church_and_United_Reform_Church_Staplehurst.pdf
Info directly below from SURVEY OF STAPLEHURST CHURCH YARD1980-1983, UPDATED 1999, REVISED 2009
Leland Duncan’s MI inscriptions of 1922 added 2013”
Headstone, inscribed on West: clear but worn lettering: sound, in situ. Body stone over grave. 2E and 2Flean on it.Sacred / to the memory of / ELIZABETH CARROWAY / who died March 20th 1837 [LD, 29] / aged 56 years. / AlsoJESSE son of / James Carroway / of Chatham / who died Sept. 26th 1832 / aged 22 years. / Whatsoever thy hand findsto do, do it / with thy might, for there is no work / (nor device) nor knowledge nor wisdom in the (grave). / Eccles. 18.9./ Also JAMES BUSS / who died July 14th 1850 aged 64 years. /
Also MARTHA BUSS, wife of the above / who diedSept. 18th 1851 aged 62.PR. Elizabeth Carroway of Staplehurst buried 6 Apr. 1837 aged 56: Jesse Carroway, not mentioned: James Buss buried 16 July 1850 aged 64: Martha Buss buried 25 Sept. 1851 aged 62. (NB: should be Eccles. 9.10.).
https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/mi/pdf/_All_Saints_Church_and_United_Reform_Church_Staplehurst.pdf
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