On the afternoon of 9th March 1891, 24 year old Amos Cann, who lived on at Greenland Farm in Exford with his father Richard Cann, travelled down to Porlock to deliver 2 horses to a purchaser. When he arrived in Porlock it was snowing, but rather than stay the night in there he decided to walk back to Exford. He set off from Porlock at around 7.30pm. He never arrived home. Once they realised he was missing, local people went out searching for him but his frozen body wasn't found until 26th March, in a snowdrift a mile or so from his home. His overcoat was found a quarter of a mile from his body. He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene's Church in Exford. It wasn't known whether he died on 9th or 10th of March, so his tombstone just says he died in March 1891.
The epitaph on Amos's headstone is as follows:
"You that are young, behold and see How quickly death has conquered me. Its fatal stroke it was too strong. It cut me off while I was young: The God above He knows for why That in my youth I was to die."
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