According to the obituary in The Gentlemen's Magazine, Nov. 1857, p. 562, Mr. Crabbe's date of birth was 16 Nov 1785. However, according to the Leicestershire Parish Records, this is actually the date of his baptism at Strathern. (Information provided by Findagrave Member Suroo, #49380393)
Obituary Excerpt: "Not long before his death, he left a short paper to be read by his children immediately after it, affirming up to the last period of responsible thought that he was satisfied with the convictions he had so carefully come to, bidding nobody mourn over one who had lived so long, and on the whole so happily, and desiring to be buried as simply as he had lived 'in any vacant space on the south side of the churchyard'; hither, accordingly, he was carried on Tuesday, Sept. 22, and there attended by many more than were invited, and scarce one but with some funeral crape about him were it no bigger than that about the soldier's arm, was laid in death among the poor whose friend he had been; while the descending September sun of one of the finest summers in living memory, broke out to fling a farewell beam into the closing grave of as generous a man as he is likely to rise upon again." (The Gentlemen's Magazine, Nov. 1857, p. 562)
Obituary Excerpt: "Not long before his death, he left a short paper to be read by his children immediately after it, affirming up to the last period of responsible thought that he was satisfied with the convictions he had so carefully come to, bidding nobody mourn over one who had lived so long, and on the whole so happily, and desiring to be buried as simply as he had lived 'in any vacant space on the south side of the churchyard'; hither, accordingly, he was carried on Tuesday, Sept. 22, and there attended by many more than were invited, and scarce one but with some funeral crape about him were it no bigger than that about the soldier's arm, was laid in death among the poor whose friend he had been; while the descending September sun of one of the finest summers in living memory, broke out to fling a farewell beam into the closing grave of as generous a man as he is likely to rise upon again." (The Gentlemen's Magazine, Nov. 1857, p. 562)
According to the obituary in The Gentlemen's Magazine, Nov. 1857, p. 562, Mr. Crabbe's date of birth was 16 Nov 1785. However, according to the Leicestershire Parish Records, this is actually the date of his baptism at Strathern. (Information provided by Findagrave Member Suroo, #49380393)
Obituary Excerpt: "Not long before his death, he left a short paper to be read by his children immediately after it, affirming up to the last period of responsible thought that he was satisfied with the convictions he had so carefully come to, bidding nobody mourn over one who had lived so long, and on the whole so happily, and desiring to be buried as simply as he had lived 'in any vacant space on the south side of the churchyard'; hither, accordingly, he was carried on Tuesday, Sept. 22, and there attended by many more than were invited, and scarce one but with some funeral crape about him were it no bigger than that about the soldier's arm, was laid in death among the poor whose friend he had been; while the descending September sun of one of the finest summers in living memory, broke out to fling a farewell beam into the closing grave of as generous a man as he is likely to rise upon again." (The Gentlemen's Magazine, Nov. 1857, p. 562)
Obituary Excerpt: "Not long before his death, he left a short paper to be read by his children immediately after it, affirming up to the last period of responsible thought that he was satisfied with the convictions he had so carefully come to, bidding nobody mourn over one who had lived so long, and on the whole so happily, and desiring to be buried as simply as he had lived 'in any vacant space on the south side of the churchyard'; hither, accordingly, he was carried on Tuesday, Sept. 22, and there attended by many more than were invited, and scarce one but with some funeral crape about him were it no bigger than that about the soldier's arm, was laid in death among the poor whose friend he had been; while the descending September sun of one of the finest summers in living memory, broke out to fling a farewell beam into the closing grave of as generous a man as he is likely to rise upon again." (The Gentlemen's Magazine, Nov. 1857, p. 562)
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