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HIGHLAND MARY’S GRAVE. Tlie two. monuments which com mcmorate Burns’ Highland Marv “°n ?" -rtiolo S , nc Scotsman by “ B.B.” “ AJarv • ted shado ” eommemorioo . vL*T" k ”°. n hal ' d ’>.v Hu•iwd in.,, U n re,mnd tb <' Passing -Marv’s ,<i? UU0 ° U ."' as Ji’yl’land ment his l ' aC °' -Another monni r» , on ort “cted in tlie Old em’o Cll + t , lrcllyard at Greenock and .o H Has 'h,' i SI t 0t wllere l>er mortal " as ,a| d to rest. The former s consjuemou.s. it attracts t!,e atn +h + f ,nany “? they pass anc , 1-ass that way. Iho latter is almost = a ?V« a dl »gy corner of a busv mdusti ml town. It Js only the admiiers of our national poet who ir out. That these, however numerous is vouched for by tin a ell-worn path across the church'f ass , leildl '’K to the railed-ir ground where Alary Campbell wa, i i 'i , 0110 res Pcct it is a till a ini win Mvn ao t ok - . "i ithin tl,e church ill V ai . lds tJO ailciel, t Parish | church of the town. All around it the „ J ' jXCC,)t fro,n thr: Kate to the clinch there are no footpaths through the ground. For nearly tw6 centuries it was the only place of buna] in Greenock. Many wed known citizens of some generations lie there, yet none are remembered like the Highland servant girl who died in Greenock while on a passing visit to the town. Even the Church itselt has not escaped the glamour of her memory. To this day at. is locally known as “Highland Mary Church ”

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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1969, 3 January 1907, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1969, 3 January 1907, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1969, 3 January 1907, Page 4

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