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Sunday 9 May 2010
Football Fatality
I saw this grave with a stone football at the foot of it in my local churchyard in Radstock. It marks the grave of Ernest Joseph Hyman who died on 7 January 1927 from injuries received in a football match between the Somerset towns of Taunton and Yeovil on Boxing Day 1926. His headstone records that: "He always played the Game".
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Great find. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI think most people hope to die a peaceful death in their sleep.
ReplyDeleteNot me... I think things like this is the spice of the graveyard.
Hi Laurie,
ReplyDeleteIt's been a little while since I've stopped in here, but I've just been catching up on what I've been missing, alot of beautiful posts there, and you often ask such thoughtful questions about what was happening. The British Giant is really something ! And this poor fellow, it must have been a rough game of football, but at least he died doing something he loved... perhaps the best way to go ?
Also, I was quite intrigued, what happened in Blackburn Cemetery that caused so many of the tombstones to be overturned ?
Note to self, must stop in here more often !
This is the grave of my great great uncles cousin. I live in Radstock and have visited it. His cousin, willWil Hyman was my great great uncle,and played cricket for Somerset between 1902 and 1914.
ReplyDeleteI am presently writing an article into the circumstances and death of Ernest Hyman
ReplyDeleteThe grave of Ernest Hyman has been restored to its former glory in 2021 with the aid of contributions from Yeovil Town Football supporters
ReplyDeleteNice ppost thanks for sharing
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