A charming cross commemorates the death of little
Elizabeth Seeney, who died on 6 October 1868 aged just 4 years and 8 months, as the inscription declares.
Elizabeth was the third daughter of
Charles and Mary Ann Seeney, nee Freeman, both of whom are buried in
E. 3.7 of the churchyard. Charles had come to the area from Middleton Cheney.
Charles married Mary Ann in Coventry in 1855 and was already describing himself as a farmer, from Radford. They went on to have seven children. In subsequent censuses the family were to be found at Finham, where he was a farm bailiff for many years before taking on Hill Farm.
He died in 1904, and his wife in 1916. She had continued to farm at The Hill with their son George, after Charles' death.
The verse on Elizabeth's stone reads:
This lov'd bud so young and fair
Called hence by early doom,
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In paradise would bloom.