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Belvoir Angel headstone with relief carved letters to Mary the wife of Henry Burk she d. 15th Oct 1724 age 31. -So fare and near youll hardly find another/ So good a wife and very kind a mother/ In all her actions she was very kind/ And will be very hard for to slip out of mind-. -Blessed are they which die in the Lord. Revelation 14.13-. The spelling hints at the local accent of the time. I suspect that Marys parents were from the Vale of Belvoir and commisioned the headstone, since Whitwick is a considerabe distance from the engravers home base. (Photo May 2014).