Bolton Parish Kirk Headstone

Description

Canmore 564883 Headstone within Bolton Parish Kirk burial ground, East Lothian, Scotland From Canmore - Front face, gravestone commemorating James and Margaret Toter, Bolton churchyard, East Lothian This gravestone commemorates James and Margaret Toter, children of Thomas Toter, a local wright. The inscription records that James died in 1700 aged 13, and his sister Margaret in 1699 aged 3. Above the inscription is a carving of a woman, presumably the children's mother, holding a bone in one hand and a skull in the other, both signifying death.