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friday flashback — at rest

            I wonder. This view is of the processional way of the Tavistock Town Cemetery, also known as Plymouth Road Cemetery — which at least normalises the nomenclature with the older Dolvin Road Cemetery. She's buried here. But at rest?

Our euphemisms are peculiar. Literally, she is dead and buried. Figuratively she has gone to meet her maker, in repose, at peace… If she's on the path to resurrection, well, that's one for the physicists to ponder. She's not here in this portion. This is for the deceased who are "church". She was "chapel", that is, a non-conformist — not of Henry VIII's church. She was banished to the other side.

Married twice, widowed twice, a mother five times over and mourner of a pre-deceased child, she said farewell to three emigrant children, was left alone when the last relocated from Devon to County Durham, lived alone and died in the care of charity. No family are here with her. The husbands and one child are in paupers graves on Dolvin Road, unmarked. 

Here there's a headstone over her. But it's not hers. With no one to care for her, and roughly a century after her death, her grave was dug up and reused for another. 

I visited them all, as best I could; a familial memento mori. At rest? I wonder.

Taken in: UK / England / West Devon District / Tavistock (show map)

Taken on: September 3, 2023

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