I've never seen a monument quite like it before- in the classical taste but so rustic in execution. It would be good to know the story behind it. I'm guessing Widow Marshall was poor but well respected- a local "character" perhaps.
A bit of research shows that both the Coopers and the Marshalls were local families and that the Widow Marshall was likely to have had descendents as they're still farming there in the late 19th century. Benjamin Cooper died some time after 1807 as his burial record exists in the National Archive.
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Date: 2013-08-09 11:06 am (UTC)I would guess that the Widow Marshall had no surviving family at such a grand age which is why Benjamin Cooper did this neighbourly deed.
The entirety of the 18th century- so she lived though the industrial revolution not that it would have had much visible effect in rural Sussex.
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