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Tablets of the Brontë Family.
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At the upper part of this tablet ample space is allowed between the lines of the inscription; when the first memorials were written down, the survivors, in their fond affection, thought little of the margin and verge they were leaving for those who were still living. But as one dead member of the household follows another fast to the grave, the lines are pressed together, and the letters become small and cramped. After the record of Anne's death, there is room for no other.

But one more of that generation—the last of that—nursery of six little motherless children—was yet to follow, before the survivor, the childless and widowed father, found his rest. On another tablet, below the first, the following record has been added to that mournful list:—

adjoining lie the remains of

CHARLOTTE, WIFE

of the
Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, A.B.,
and daughter of the Rev. P. Brontë, A.B., incumbent.
She died March 31st, 1855, in the 39th
year of her age.

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