George W. Chapman - Starrville Cemetery - Starrville, 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 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 inscription reads:

George W. Chapman

Born
In Crawford Co. Ga.

Apr. 3, 1865,

Died
Feb. 6, 1904.

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'Twas hard to give thee up,
But Thy will, O God be done.
Gone but not forgotten.

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The family name, "Chapman", is on the reverse plinth, and an additional epitaph is on the front:

The pains of death are past,
Labor and sorrow cease,
And life's long warfare closed at last,
His soul is found in peace.

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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