Born: 17 September 1804
Died: 21 May 1843
Map Location: 40
Inscription
East face of the Cartwright obelisk
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN SOLOMON CARTWRIGHT ESQ.
BARRISTER AT LAW Q.C.
___ OF THE MIDLAND DISTRICT COURT
M. P. P. FOR LENOX AND ADDINGTON
WHO DIED JANUARY 15 1845
AGED 40 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS
AND OF
REV. ROBERT DAVID CARTWRIGHT M. A.
QUEEN’S COLLEGE OXON
FOR 12 YEARS ASSISTANT MINISTER OF
ST.GEORGE’S CHURCH IN THIS PARISH
AND TO WHOSE MEMORY
THE ADJOINING CHURCH WAS ERECTED
DIED MAY 21, 1843.
AGED 38 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS:
TWIN BROTHERS.
BORN AT KINGSTON SEPT 17TH 1804.
. . . AND MIND ______ BROTHER
. . . ___ES WERE _____
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. . . REMAINS
. . . OF THE JUST IS BLESSED
Further Information and Sources
Cartwright Obelisk (Credit John Grenville)
The Cartwright obelisk records three generations of the Cartwright family, beginning with Richard Cartwright, Sr. and his wife Joanna Beasley: Honourable Richard Cartwright (son of Richard Sr., buried in Montreal), Magdalen Secord (wife of Hon R. Cartwright), and their children, Mary Magdalen Dobbs (wife of A.T. Dobbs), James, Richard*, Hannah, Thomas, Stephen and twins John Solomon and Robert David.
* Richard Cartwright died 4 May 1811 but is not listed in the burial register and is assumed to have been buried elsewhere.
