Sometimes a wander through the graveyard is just that - a wander. Not a thorough research trip, as I would always like to have the time to conduct. Such was the case when I visited Oak Hill Cemetery in Talbotton, Georgia almost a year ago. Consequently, this is the only photo I have of the rough-cut granite headstone for Mr. John Thomas Waterman. It is from a farther away shot I cropped down. To even further complicate things, I never really studied the entire gravesite of Mr. Waterman. What's the big deal, you ask? After a bit of research, Mr. John Thomas Waterman has become one of those "people I wish I knew." Sometimes this happens when I begin researching an individual represented only to me by a stone in a cemetery. What I learn leads me to think they were charming or funny or otherwise interesting in some way, and I wish I could've known them "in their time." Mr. Waterman is an example. The basics of John Thomas Waterman are this: he w...