Richard G. and Harriet Head - Lockhart Municipal Burial Park - Lockhart, TX
N 29° 53.391 W 097° 40.143
14R E 628513 N 3307322
Zinc monument for Richard G. and Harriet Head in Lockhart Municipal Burial Park, Lockhart, TX.
Waymark Code: WMH6A7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/29/2013
Views: 4
The monument has the family name, "Head," near the base on each side. It is topped by an angel, who looks out over a depiction of two praying angels, with the inscription, "No pain, No grief, No anxious fear, Can reach the Peaceful sleeper here." To the angel's right, below, is a plate with the inscription:
Our Mother
Harriet
Wife of
Richard G. Head
Died
Sept. 17, A.D. 1859,
Aged
50 Yrs. 8 Mos. 11 Dys.
"Earth has one pure
spirit less,
Heaven one inmate
more."
On the face of the monument below the angel's back is the depiction of an hourglass, with the inscription:
"We only know that
Thou has gone,
And that the same re-
lentless tide
Which bore thee from us
Still glides on,
And we who mourn thee
With it glide.
To the angel's left, below, is a plate with the inscription:
Our Father
Richard G.
Head
Died
April 25, A.D. 1883,
Aged 84 Yrs. 4 Mos. 19 Dys.
"God's finger touched
him - and he slept."
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