The chest tomb (see notes) is in the foreground. Her sister Martha (subject of the famous ballad) is buried in the same churchyard together with her ill-fated lover Roger Wrightson.

Grave No. 62 Chest Tomb (inscription facing upwards) reads:
Here lies the body of
Margaret Laidman who
Died November 13th 1745
Aged 20
Thomas Laidman Died
June the 20th 1758
Aged 74
Mark Laidman Died
Oct: 2 1765 aged 74
Tamar Ye Wife of Mark
Laidman died Dec Ye
17th 1792 Aged 97
Ann Daughter of Thomas
Laidman died Dec
27th 1794 Aged 19