J.W. Dowdy - Bullard Cemetery - Bullard, 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 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. This is a later tree trunk model, with its emblem on the plinth showing a simple tree stump instead, and the dove and the tools are closer to the top of the monument. The dove is perched on the inscription scroll, and one can note "Red Oak Camp 645" on the ax. 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. For what it's worth, there were multiple camps by the name of Red Oak in East Texas.

The inscription is on a scroll hanging from a sawed-off log, and note that there is some faint detail to be seen under Mr. Dowdy's name:

J.W. Dowdy

Mar. 17, 1886,
Aug. 31, 1911.

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His words were kind-
ness, his deeds were love
His spirit humble, he
rests above.

Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description) Address: Bullard Cemetery FM 344 Bullard, TX USA 75757

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