Corsham (cont).

We popped into St Bartholomew's church for a bit of a sticky. A man was working among the gravestones with a whippersnipper. He came over to us and asked if we needed any help to find a grave. We thanked him and said we were just looking around.
He said, “have you seen Sarah Jarvis's grave?”
When we said we hadn't, he took us to it. Her original epitaph carved into the stone grave marker, is now illegible. It has been reproduced on a brass plaque. It says that in her one hundred and seventh year, some time before her death, she had fresh teeth.
To me, that could mean one of three things:-
She went to a dentist and got some dentures.
Her husband died and she inherited his dentures.
She grew a new set of teeth.
According to local history, the last one happened.
This graveyard has an unusually high number of people who lived to a ripe old age - well past three score and ten.Read more