W.B. Mapp - Crowell Cemetery - Crowell, TX, USA
N 33° 58.160 W 099° 42.984
14S E 433818 N 3758986
A Dove of Peace holding an olive branch can be found on the Woodmen of the World monument for William Burl Mapp, in historic Crowell Cemetery, Crowell, TX. Thanks to Findagrave for information about his name.
Waymark Code: WMY21T
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2018
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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 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. Sometimes, the tools and/or the dove would be part of the monument, in relief, as is the case here. The inscription is:
W.B. Mapp
Born
Dec. 27, 1852
Died
May 16, 1907
Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch
Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description)
Address:
FM 98 and Foard County Rd 125
Crowell, TX USA
79227
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