John A. Robison - Charleston Cemetery - Charleston, TX, USA - Doves of peace on Waymarking.com

The Woodmen of the World are known today as WoodmenLife, a fraternal society that provides insurance to its members. Visitors to older cemeteries can frequently spot the marble tree trunk monuments that they placed at the graves of their members, although not every tree trunk monument out there was placed by the Woodmen of the World: It was common in the late 19th century to use a log to note that a person had died young, and many infants have such grave markers. Eventually, those tree trunk monuments became too expensive to produce, and headstones would be marked with a Woodmen of the World emblem of some kind. Earlier ones featured a dove of peace with an olive branch in its beak, flying over a fallen log where the tools of the woodmen's trade -- hatchet, mallet, and wedge -- can be seen. Sometimes, the tools and/or the dove would be part of the monument, in relief. In this case, the dove is perched atop the scroll that hangs from a rope on a sawn-off branch.

His Findagrave page indicates that he committed suicide, with poor health and domestic issues being cited as a possible motive. The inscription reads:

John A.
Robison

Born
Mar. 6, 1868
Died
Dec. 15, 1911

Gone but not forgotten

Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description) Address: Charleston Cemetery FM 895 Charleston, TX USA 75450

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