Lucy Elmer
The name Lucy Elmer is not the first name listed on the monument.
The monument is in All Saints church burial ground, Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England.
There are 242 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
No date of death is recorded against Lucy Elmer entry on the monument.
Lucy Elmer is listed on the GPR grave numbered 249753.
Lucy Elmer is listed as the mother of Ethel Mary Elmer on the grave monument.
Lucy Elmer has the record number 537248 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 27 September 2012
There is one image available for the monument listing Lucy Elmer (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Lucy Elmer record:
Ethel Mary Elmer's Mother (nee Lucy Wakelin) is also buried in All Saints churchyard in Great Ashfield, and her memorial is a shared gravestone (one of the several Elmer family stones lined up to the immediate left of the path to the porch door of the church). Lucy Elmer moved to Woolwich before WWI, following the death of her husband Henry Arthur Elmer. Her 2 daughters also lived with her there, and Ethel Mary died there in 1918 from goitre, possibly as a result of contracting Spanish Flu. (TBC). Following Ethel's death & the departure of Leslie Arthur Elmer to Kenya in 1921, Dorothy and Lucy moved to Ipswich but moved to Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire in WWII near their 1st cousins the Burrells. They moved back to Suffolk after WWII and bought the house next door to where they had lived previously. Both women died there - Lucy in 1950 and Dorothy in 1951. All 3 sons (Sidney John; Edgar William Dixon and Leslie Arthur came to visit in Woolwich in 1920 to farewell Leslie, when he emigrated with his new bride to Kenya. EWD returned to China until circa 1935 when he moved to Northern Ireland to run the Power Station at Ballylumford, Islandmagee. Sidney John brought his Australian bride of 5 years and his family of (then 2 children) by ship to meet his mother (my father Arthur Wakelin Elmer, aged 2 and my Aunt Alice (aged 5).