Southern Graves

John L. Son of J. M. & M. E. Simmons Born Aug 11, 1901 Died Dec 6, 1902 Mt. Olive Cemetery Pinehurst, Dooly County, Georgia

Little Lillian Dickson’s concrete ledger marker is not pretty to look at.  This daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dickson (online family trees suggest the initials are for Jefferson Simpson) died the summer of 1909 at the age of just two years. I’m sharing this tidbit from the local newspaper in case anyone is trying to connect dots from a Dickson to a Joiner. Vienna News (Georgia) 3 August 1909, pg. 3 : NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE …Mrs. Leon Joiner of Montezuma, came down and attended the funeral of her little niece, Lillian Dickson at Mt. Olive cemetery Friday afternoon…  [Via South Georgia Historic Newspapers .]

Mary Elmirah rests at Mt. Olive Cemetery in Pinehurst, Dooly County, Georgia. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wilson and wife of J. H. Wilkes. Mary died before her nineteenth birthday in the year 1907. The back of her tombstone offers this recitation: There's a beautiful region above the skies, And I long to reach its shore. For I know I shall find my treasure there, The loved one gone before. These words are from a poem by B. F. Taylor. I found it in The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet . [P. Garrett & Co., 1876. Google book .] GONE BEFORE -- B. F. TAYLOR There's a beautiful face in the silent air, Which follows me ever and near; With smiling eyes and amber hair, With voiceless lips, yet with breath of prayer, That I feel but cannot hear. The dimpled hand and ringlet of gold Lie low in a marble sleep: I stretch my hand for a clasp of old, But the empty air is strangely cold, And my vigil alone I keep. There's a sinless brow ...