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Burial · 1884

Martha Best

Wife of Samuel Ponsonby Best, Colonel, Madras Army (Retired)

Date
13th June 1884
Age
51 years
Place
St. Thomas' Church Cemetery, Ootacamund
Officiant
A. C. Taylor
Register
Burials · 1877-1898
Notes
Martha Scott, wife of Colonel Samuel Ponsonby Scott, Madras Army (retired) - confirmed by book No. 152 (his burial, 1892) and the loose 'No. 152 Samuel Ponsonby Scott' note. First St. Thomas' burial not carried into the St. Stephen's register (which stopped at old No. 763, May 1884).