Coronado Eagle and Journal, Volume XV, Number 28, 12 July 1927 — A Pall-Bearer Of Shakespeare [ARTICLE]

A Pall-Bearer Of Shakespeare

At Fredericksburg, V*., in the old Ufosonic graveyard, is the grave of Edward Heldon, one of Shakespeare’s pall-bearers. The following is the inscription on the gravestone: “Here Lies the Body of Edward Heldon “Practitioner in Physics and Chirurgery. Born in Bedfordshire, England, in the year of our Lord 1542. Was contemporary with and one of the pail-bearers of William Shakespeare, of the Avon. After a brief illness his spirit ascended in the year of our Lord 1618, aged 76.” This gravestone was discovered lying flat on the ground under a tangle of weeds and creepers with the upper corner clipped olf and the old English letters dim but traceable.