Poor Rebecca Town

I came across this story about a grave in our town graveyard of a poor lady called Rebecca Town.
The inscription on the flat tabletop stone said that she died in her 43rd year, after having thirty children.
Only two of the children are mentioned by name on the gravestone, and they both died as infants. One can only assume that the other twenty-eight children must have either been stillborn or died soon after birth, although there are parish records of many of the children being baptised.
Rebecca herself was a twin, so its fair to assume that many of the births were multiple and there was possibly some medical problems with her pregnancies.
What a sad life of unbelievable misery this poor woman must have had.
The only one glint of happiness in this terrible story is that her husband, Benjamin Town, remarried after Rebecca's death, and went on to have two children with his second wife.

There’s a corner in Keighley Graveyard

Where a sad soul lays….not alone

Buried with her thirty poor children

Her memorial…just this lowly stone

What a tale of suffering endured by her

Bearing thirty children…none whom survived

Her life full of toil and childbirth

And not a single one thrived

Never able to see a child grow up

This continuing story of misery

Just one false hope on another

Then one by one she had to bury

To never hear the sound of her child

Having fun as they run and play

Just a continual test of trying again

For the hope of a child someday

Her life ending in notoriety

Stalked by death and disease throughout

Thirty children born in twenty-three years

Then at forty-three, her body worn out

And what now remains of her memory

Just this stone in a cold, damp corner

Not a flower or a word of kindness

And no one here to mourn her