Aged 78;
And was buried in the adjacent vault.

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For fifty years he zealously devoted himself to the work of visiting
the sick and afflicted of this town, whether rich or poor, and was
made a great blessing to many.

His work was the outward expression of that Christ-like charity which
pervaded his soul.

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The opportunity to do good to our fellowmen comes to all, irrespective of
sect or sex. One to embrace it with goodwill was Edith Florence Hartill,
daughter of William Henry Hartill, who worked long and steadfastly in
connection with the Bible Reading Union, never relaxing her efforts for
the uplifting of the very poorest and most helpless of the community.

In the Market Place stands a public clock mounted upon a stone pedestal,
having a watering-trough for cattle at its base. This was erected, as an
inscription upon it testifies, as a memorial to the late Joseph Tonks,
surgeon, "whose generous and unsparing devotion in the cause of
alleviating human suffering" was "deemed worthy of public record." The
memorialised, Mr. Joseph Tonks, M.R.C.S.E., L.A.H., was a native of the
town, being a son of Mr. Silas Tonks, of the Forge Inn, Spring Bank. He
began to practise in Willenhall about 1879, and soon made himself
extremely popular among the working classes, and particularly with the
Friendly Societies, who initiated the movement to provide this public
memorial.

Without sorting into sects and creeds, let it be acknowledged that
Willenhall has been fortunate in the number of its townsmen whose lives
have been usefully and commendably spent in the public service and for
the public good. Among those whose influence on the social and moral
well-being of the place has not been without appreciable benefit, may be
named Joseph Carpenter Tildesley, R. D. Gough, Josiah Tildesley, Clement
Tildesley, Jesse Tildesley, Isaac Pedley, Henry Hall, Thomas Kidson,
Henry Vaughan, W. E. Parkes, and J. H. James. Other appreciations will
occur in our concluding chapters, as the names more fittingly happen
under the topics yet to be dealt with.

Having brought to a conclusion Willenhall's ecclesiastical and religious
history--and the largeness with which the church bulked on the lives of
the people in past times must be held accountable for the lengthin