This small extract is part of an interesting but sad story. To read to full story do an internet search 'Adolphus Fielding'
Adolphus Fielding was a potter, about 49 years old, whose failing eyesight had forced him to become an itinerant dealer in small wares. His round was confined to Audley and the neighbourhood, but he lived a few miles away in Stoke Road, Newcastle.
On his headstone it reads " Sacred to the memory of Adolphus Fielding who having lived a life of faith upon the son of God as his only hope for salvation was suddenly removed from life by the hand of a furious maniac at Alsager on November 12 1845 aged 49".
This small extract is part of an interesting but sad story. To read to full story do an internet search 'Adolphus Fielding'
Adolphus Fielding was a potter, about 49 years old, whose failing eyesight had forced him to become an itinerant dealer in small wares. His round was confined to Audley and the neighbourhood, but he lived a few miles away in Stoke Road, Newcastle.
On his headstone it reads " Sacred to the memory of Adolphus Fielding who having lived a life of faith upon the son of God as his only hope for salvation was suddenly removed from life by the hand of a furious maniac at Alsager on November 12 1845 aged 49".