In my ramblings through local graveyards, I often come across tombstones with carvings or family names that make me stop and think, "Hey, wait a minute."
And so it was with this marker in Calvary Cemetery.
Just one question: Shouldn't it be carved in the past tense — DIED?
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"He who DIES last, dies longest" I always say.
Seeing your tombstone, I seen and item at Memphis Funeral Home on Poplar that has got to me like a bad itch you cab't scratch away. On the front of the main office building, looking at it from the parking lot, The window on the far left has a field stone that has carvings on it. It is about 18 inches long and eight inches wide. The carvings covers the whole front of the stone. Looks like some kind of old writing. I have asked employees there if they knew anything about it, and noe of them says they have never noticed it before. Help scratch my itch what are those carvings!