Death & Burial
Sir John died while some of his children were young. He was buried in Umberleigh Chapel (now demolished), next to his manor house of Umberleigh. His chest-tomb with monumental brasses on top of himself between his two wives with his children below in two small groups exists in St Mary's Church, Atherington, to where it was moved in 1818 from Umberleigh Chapel.
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Famous quotes containing the words death and/or burial:
“It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I feel like a boy—and my hands so free from blood and my heart always so compassionate and pitiful that I cannot comprehend how anyone wants to hang me.”
—Roger Casement (1864–1916)
“On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)