J.F. Grant - Sand Springs Cemetery - Mineola, TX, USA
N 32° 42.463 W 095° 30.930
15S E 264208 N 3621683
A Dove of Peace bearing an olive branch appears on the Woodmen of the World monument for James Franklin Grant in historic Sand Springs Cemetery, just a bit northwest of Mineola, TX. Thanks to Findagrave for information about his name.
Waymark Code: WM11C8D
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2019
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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 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, like this marble example, 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, and "Dum Tacet Clamat" -- "Though silent, he speaks" -- is at the bottom of the emblem. Later emblems would show a simple tree stump instead, and the dove and the tools would be displayed somewhere on the monument.
The Woodmen of the World organized themselves into local "camps", and this is a fairly common example of a monument that references the camp to which the person belonged. Here, the Woodmen of the World emblem is just above the plinth, referencing "Lake George Camp No. 202." The family name, "Grant" is on the plinth, and the inscription is on a scroll hanging from a sawed-off log:
J.F. Grant
Born
Feb. 21, 1859,
Died
Nov. 13, 1910.
Farewell my wife
and children all
From you a father
Christ doth call
Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch
Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description)
Address:
Sand Springs Cemetery
Wood County Rd 2315 and US 69
Mineola, TX USA
75773
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