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| SACRED to the MEMORY | |
| OF | |
| JOHN FARBRIDGE, M.D. | |
| who died Sepr 21st. 1853, | |
| Aged 60 Years. | |
| SARAH ANN FARBRIDGE, | |
| his daughter died Sepr 23rd 1853, | |
| Aged 33 Years. | |
| MATILDA REBECCA FARBRIDGE, | |
| his daughter died Sepr 23rd 1853, | |
| Aged 27 Years. | |
| Also SARAH FARBRIDGE, | |
| his Wife and Mother to the above | |
| who died Sepr 24th 1853, | |
| Aged 58 Years. |
From The [London] Standard, Tuesday September 27th 1853: “The Cholera – Hexham – The secretary to the sanitary committee in this place has been attacked with the epidemic. During the last two days four deaths from cholera have taken place. Choleraic diarrhœa is almost universal, and it is only by prompt and energetic treatment that the disease is arrested in this stage. Mr. Farbridge (as stated in the Standard of Saturday [24th]) has fallen a victim to the disease, and his wife and two daughters were afterwards attacked, and the latest accounts state that they also have since died.”
“At Hexham 25 per cent, of the whole population was more or less affected, and the number of deaths 26. One medical gentleman, Mr. Farbridge, his wife and two daughters, were amongst the lamented victims.” [T Fordyce “Historical Register” p.284]