Highland Mary's Grave, Greenock
Known for her relationship with poet Robert Burns, Mary Campbell
died at age 23 of of typhus in October 1786. She was originally
buried in the old West Kirk in Greenock and a monument was later
built over her grave in 1842. However, in 1920 this graveyard was
moved when the nearby Harland and Wolff shipyard decided to expand,
and the cemetery's remains was reintered in Greenock Cemetery.
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East Ayrshire Council
