One oral story about Jenny survives, as written down by the 8th Earl of St. Germans, which reads as follows:
“1923. Mrs. Lampard (Quarry Street), aet. 80, informs me that her Aunt Jenny Wills, who died aged 99 years and 9 months, told her when a young girl that she was engaged to hoe turnips at Port Eliot but was employed for months and months carrying baskets of bones and carting headstones from the ground outside the Church (presumably the North Side) to the new Churchyard.
The churchyard was removed between 1780 and 1785.
Death date taken from newspaper obituary. Birth date calculated from her niece's story.
“1923. Mrs. Lampard (Quarry Street), aet. 80, informs me that her Aunt Jenny Wills, who died aged 99 years and 9 months, told her when a young girl that she was engaged to hoe turnips at Port Eliot but was employed for months and months carrying baskets of bones and carting headstones from the ground outside the Church (presumably the North Side) to the new Churchyard.
The churchyard was removed between 1780 and 1785.
Death date taken from newspaper obituary. Birth date calculated from her niece's story.
One oral story about Jenny survives, as written down by the 8th Earl of St. Germans, which reads as follows:
“1923. Mrs. Lampard (Quarry Street), aet. 80, informs me that her Aunt Jenny Wills, who died aged 99 years and 9 months, told her when a young girl that she was engaged to hoe turnips at Port Eliot but was employed for months and months carrying baskets of bones and carting headstones from the ground outside the Church (presumably the North Side) to the new Churchyard.
The churchyard was removed between 1780 and 1785.
Death date taken from newspaper obituary. Birth date calculated from her niece's story.
“1923. Mrs. Lampard (Quarry Street), aet. 80, informs me that her Aunt Jenny Wills, who died aged 99 years and 9 months, told her when a young girl that she was engaged to hoe turnips at Port Eliot but was employed for months and months carrying baskets of bones and carting headstones from the ground outside the Church (presumably the North Side) to the new Churchyard.
The churchyard was removed between 1780 and 1785.
Death date taken from newspaper obituary. Birth date calculated from her niece's story.
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