The St. Cuthbert's Grave Of Henry Fenwick Pickering

A Memory of Doveridge.

IN 2008 I visited Doveridge to find any remnant of my great grandfather Henry Fenwick Pickering. His grave, "erected by public subscription" lies beside the pathway to the door of St. Cuthbert's under its enormous yew tree. No one I talked to remembered that Doveridge had had a cooperative store. My great grandfather managed that store for 3 years before his death at age 47 from a strangled intestine. His obituary in the Uttoexeter Register from 1865 notes that his funeral was very large, attended by Lord and Lady Waterpark as well as a parade of school children carrying flowers. Before Doveridge he and his wife Ann Vickers Pickering had lived in Silverdale by Newcastle-Under-Lyme where he taught school and was known as "Poet of the Village."

If anyone reading this has any more information, I would be much obliged. Some of his poetry must have been published, but to date nothing has turned up.

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