Johnny Turners Monument

The inscription on the monument is very difficult to read now but there is a section in the Crocketford Millenium Book which can still be obtained from the Crocketford Community Initiative at www.crocketford.org with the story of John Turner and a copy of the inscription.

Johnnys Monument

In Memory of John Turner

Who died at Glen 1st December 1841 aged 60 years Jordan I have passed through many a weary day on earth I wandered waiting to be free, Honest though poor, I trod lifes thorny way no comfort here save hope in heaven for me. Though on this bleak hilltop my body lies, under this stone it moulders into dust. Remeber stranger it will yet arise, not of haste in death again but with the just Eternal Anthems to my Saviour raise redeeming love will be our theme of praise.

Here in this place I made my grave
Four years before I died
And I did ask some decent men
To see me safe interred
As I did get the grant of it from
J Lennox Esquire of the land
Which he did grant to give me
As long as time doth stand.