Demee, James

In Latin: Sacred to the memory of James Demee, gentleman, who in the hope of a joyful resurrection with the just, lies in a tomb near this monument. Devoted to rectitude and honesty, equitable and inflexible, it was his heart's desire to succour those in distress. He had two wives, of whom the first, Frances, was the daughter of Martin Earl, of Wood-Dawling in the county of Norfolk, gentleman, who exchanged her life for eternity on the 6th day of January 1687, aged 23; the second was Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Morley, clerk, who died on the 9th day of April 1709, aged 43, and was buried next to her husband; the first marriage produced three children, of whom two surrendered to the Fates as infants, but a surviving daughter, Mary, married Charles Mackarell, gentleman of the city of Norwich; from the second (marriage) his only son James also survives; he (the father) died aged 59 on the 11th day of September 1718 in the Christian Era.