Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser - Saturday 25 June 1870, p 2:
DEATH OF LADY SIMPSON.
Those who were personally acquainted with the late Sir James Simpson, will learn with much regret the news of the death of Lady Simpson, which took place six o'clock on Friday evening, at Killin, Perthshire. Her ladyship has long been victim to disease, and was from time to time invalided by fits of intense suffering, the severity of which was only known to her nearest friends. Months of constant anxiety beside her husband's death-bed seem to have done their work on a constitution already sadly shattered. Observing her enfeebled condition. Sir Walter recently induced her to take house at Killin for the summer, and thither she removed with her children about fortnight ago. Almost immediately afterwards she took to bed. Her family felt no alarm, she did not seem worse than in previous attacks illness. On Friday morning she spoke of getting up, and in the afternoon she asked for newspaper. Shortly afterwards a slight cry was heard, and this was the last sound that passed from her lips. Lady Simpson was born Bo'ness, in Linlithgowshire. Her maiden name was Jessie Grindlay, her father being Mr Walter Grindlay, a Liverpool merchant. She had attained her fifty-ninth year.—Scotsman.
DEATH OF LADY SIMPSON.
Those who were personally acquainted with the late Sir James Simpson, will learn with much regret the news of the death of Lady Simpson, which took place six o'clock on Friday evening, at Killin, Perthshire. Her ladyship has long been victim to disease, and was from time to time invalided by fits of intense suffering, the severity of which was only known to her nearest friends. Months of constant anxiety beside her husband's death-bed seem to have done their work on a constitution already sadly shattered. Observing her enfeebled condition. Sir Walter recently induced her to take house at Killin for the summer, and thither she removed with her children about fortnight ago. Almost immediately afterwards she took to bed. Her family felt no alarm, she did not seem worse than in previous attacks illness. On Friday morning she spoke of getting up, and in the afternoon she asked for newspaper. Shortly afterwards a slight cry was heard, and this was the last sound that passed from her lips. Lady Simpson was born Bo'ness, in Linlithgowshire. Her maiden name was Jessie Grindlay, her father being Mr Walter Grindlay, a Liverpool merchant. She had attained her fifty-ninth year.—Scotsman.
Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser - Saturday 25 June 1870, p 2:
DEATH OF LADY SIMPSON.
Those who were personally acquainted with the late Sir James Simpson, will learn with much regret the news of the death of Lady Simpson, which took place six o'clock on Friday evening, at Killin, Perthshire. Her ladyship has long been victim to disease, and was from time to time invalided by fits of intense suffering, the severity of which was only known to her nearest friends. Months of constant anxiety beside her husband's death-bed seem to have done their work on a constitution already sadly shattered. Observing her enfeebled condition. Sir Walter recently induced her to take house at Killin for the summer, and thither she removed with her children about fortnight ago. Almost immediately afterwards she took to bed. Her family felt no alarm, she did not seem worse than in previous attacks illness. On Friday morning she spoke of getting up, and in the afternoon she asked for newspaper. Shortly afterwards a slight cry was heard, and this was the last sound that passed from her lips. Lady Simpson was born Bo'ness, in Linlithgowshire. Her maiden name was Jessie Grindlay, her father being Mr Walter Grindlay, a Liverpool merchant. She had attained her fifty-ninth year.—Scotsman.
DEATH OF LADY SIMPSON.
Those who were personally acquainted with the late Sir James Simpson, will learn with much regret the news of the death of Lady Simpson, which took place six o'clock on Friday evening, at Killin, Perthshire. Her ladyship has long been victim to disease, and was from time to time invalided by fits of intense suffering, the severity of which was only known to her nearest friends. Months of constant anxiety beside her husband's death-bed seem to have done their work on a constitution already sadly shattered. Observing her enfeebled condition. Sir Walter recently induced her to take house at Killin for the summer, and thither she removed with her children about fortnight ago. Almost immediately afterwards she took to bed. Her family felt no alarm, she did not seem worse than in previous attacks illness. On Friday morning she spoke of getting up, and in the afternoon she asked for newspaper. Shortly afterwards a slight cry was heard, and this was the last sound that passed from her lips. Lady Simpson was born Bo'ness, in Linlithgowshire. Her maiden name was Jessie Grindlay, her father being Mr Walter Grindlay, a Liverpool merchant. She had attained her fifty-ninth year.—Scotsman.
Inscription
Front of enclosure:
Sir JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON, Bart
MD DCL
Born 1811. Died 1870.
Obelisk:
MAGGIE GRINDLAY SIMPSON
Died 26 May 1844 aged 3 years
MARY CATHERINE SIMPSON
Died 16 Feb 1847, aged 2 years
JAMES SIMPSON
Died 16 Feb 1862 aged 16 years; and also
JESSIE GRINDLAY, Lady Simpson
Born 1812, Died 1870
WALTER GRINDLAY SIMPSON
Born 1st Sept 1843, died 29 May 1898
“Nevertheless I Live”
Base
Here also lies
MARGARET SCOTT, widow of Walter Grindlay, Esq.
She died 5th November 1867 aged 90.
RHS:
WILLIAM SIMPSON
Born 15 Jun 1850, Died 31 Aug 1911
ALEXANDER MAGNUS RETZIUS SIMPSON, MD
1852-1890*
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