The first two people to be buried here were Florence’s Father, William, who died in 1874, and her Mother, Frances, who was laid to rest in 1880.

Florence Nightingale requested in her Will that, at her burial place, her initials F.N. and the date of her birth and death should be her only memorial. It was recorded in the Aberdeen Evening Express in 1910 that the monumental mason Mr. R.L. Wood was asked to execute the inscription, having served earlier as a Warrant officer in the Royal Engineers