Sunday 24th March 1844
“At the close of the service this evening I made some observations on the death of Seth Hill, one of a large family at the Common, who all steadily love our cause, and greatly help the school. He was only five years of age – was in perfect health last Sabbath – was buried this afternoon! We sang the hymn (143rd) which the dear little fellow was learning when taken ill, with a view to repeat it with the rest of the Sunday scholars, this morning, at the chapel.”
“Such undissembled grief – such general weeping, I never witnessed since we had the chapel: I had hard work to finish the sermon, I felt so much, and justly so.”
William Daniell, The History Of Warminster Common, published 1850.