A secret 200 year old message hidden underground! Find a Grave volunteer.

Описание: 200 years ago, Henry Mitchell was an apprentice stonemason. At the bottom of one headstone, underground, Henry hid a secret message:

"Stop spectator and this grave view!
The next that's made may be for you.
Henry Mitchell, Tamworth, aged 14, 1820."

Henry was born in 1806, the son of Henry Young Mitchell and Elizabeth nee Ackeroyd. In 1841 he was living in Hopwas with his wife Mary. He died on 24th Aug 1845, only 39 years old, and was buried at this church, St Editha's in Tamworth. His brother Charles carried on the family business, but he too died young, aged 35, and passed the business on to his sons, Henry Young Mitchell and Arthur Mitchell. Henry Young Mitchell's son Henry Charles Mitchell was next in line, and it was he who carved the well-known Aethelflaeda statue in the castle grounds in Tamworth.

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