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John Mackay, mason, Braetongue

The fallen stone in this picture is Cowper & Ross No.24. When they surveyed  Tongue Churchyard in the 1980s, they summarised the inscription thus:
JOHN MACKAY,
mason in Brae Tongue,
died 12th June 1890
aged 75.
His wife
CHRISTINA MACKAY
died 2nd March 1899
aged 84.
Their son
 WILLIAM MACKAY
died at Strichen
26th May 1905
aged 47.

St Andrew's Church, Tongue, Sutherland