A local company’s kindness has ensured the memory lives on of a man who tragically died after failing to recover from being assaulted, writes Phil Hill.
The firm came to the rescue after a tombstone in Mendip Hospital Cemetery, Wells, was accidentally damaged during last year’s end-of-season mow.
The top of the gravestone of Herbert George Mackie at the 150-year-old graveyard was sliced off.
Hearing of the mishap, Cheddar-based Adams Memorials agreed to repair the gravestone for free as “the cemetery is run by volunteers”.
Herbert, from Castle Cary, died aged 33 in 1910.
A cemetery social media post says: “He had lived a perfectly healthy, happy life as a clerk until being knocked from his bicycle and assaulted.
“His mental health then deteriorated, until his family were obliged to seek his admission to the old Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
“It seems that, comparatively…
