WIDOW OF A SOLDIER WHO DIED IN THE WAR OF JENKINS EAR

 
War of Jenkin’s Ear, also called King George’s War (1739 – 1743). The name comes from an incident where a Privateer Robert Jenkin’s was stopped by a Spanish Sloop of the coast of Havana in 1731. The Spanish found no evidence of privateering but they repeatedly tortured Jenkins and Lt. Dorce sliced off his ear with his cutlass and told him to take it to King George as a token of what they had in mind for the King. Seven years later Jenkins was invited to display his pickled ear to Parliament, inflaming the British and American colonies against Spain. The government of Hugh Walpole declared war against Spain. The press could not resist naming the war for its theatrical beginnings.

By the way, “relict” written on the stone means widow.

Info: Regiments.org