Photo: B. Chandler
In Newcastle upon Tyne (St.Nicholas) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
a dear husband and father
John Brooks Lamb
died February 24th 1932
in his 62nd year
Also of Joseph and Walter
sons of the above
died in infancy
Also his dear wife
Jane Marshall Lamb
died 27th Aug. 1939 aged 63 years
James Lamb
dearly loved first born of the above
was reported missing
in the Great War
Sept. 6th 1917 aged 21
Hope relieved our broken hearts
which never healed.
& made it hard to sayThy will be done.
Love lives on and has a
power to bless
when they who loved are
hidden in the grave.
