James E. Johnson - Starrville Cemetery - Starrville, TX, USA
N 32° 27.957 W 095° 06.843
15S E 301313 N 3594052
A Dove of Peace bearing an olive branch appears on the Woodmen of the World monument for Woodmen of the World monument for James E. Johnson in historic Starrville Cemetery, Starrville, TX.
Waymark Code: WM11DRV
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2019
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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.
This is an early model where the Woodmen of the World emblem appears on a fairly common variety of marble monument, topped by an urn. There is detail throughout, and the emblem is on the shaft, featuring 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" -- at the bottom of the emblem.
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, noting below the emblem that Mr. Johnson belonged to Starrville Camp No. 1247.
The inscription reads:
James E.
Johnson
Born
Mar. 30, 1866,
Died
Mar. 3, 1902.
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At the bottom of the monument and on the plinth are two epitaphs:
'Twas hard to give thee up,
But Thy will O God be done.
O,'twill be sweet to meet on that
blest shore,
All sorrow passed, all pain forever
o'er.
Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch
Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description)
Address:
13992 FM 757
Starrville, TX USA
75792
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