!SOURCE: Rev. Thomas Whyte, AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
ACCOUNT OF THE BETHUNES OF THE ISLAND OF SKYE, Edinburgh, 1778,
reprinted London, 1893, by Alfred A. Bethune-Baker, reprinted by
ScotsPress, p. 19.
Anne... married to William Urquhart of Meldrum, representative of a
very ancient and respectful family; and since the death of Colonel James
Urquhart of Cromarty in the year 1741, undoubted chief of the sirname,
and had to him a son called William [Nisbet''s Heraldry, vol. II. and
Douglas''s Baronage.] She died at Aberdeen in the twenty-sixth year of
her age, 15th May 1757. The following inscription to her praise was
inserted soon after her death in the Scots Magazine [Vol. XIX, p. 292].
To the memory of Anne Scott Lady Meldrum,
In whose character the amiable qualities,
Of a wife, a mother, and a friend,
Were agreeably blended.
She was mild, affable, and chearful,
Tender and affectionate,
Sensible, generous, and open.
In family concerns, a great oeconomist;
Neither mean nor prodigal.
Her unaffected piety,
Equal temper,
And continual flow of spirits,
Balanced the inconveniences
Of a delicate constitution,
Gave a relish to life;
But could not prevent the stroke of death!
Reader!
Reflect upon the instability of human enjoyments,
Health is precarious; beauty but vain;
Riches have wings; our friends must die;
Virtue alone endureth for ever.