Dovie Ezell - Old Woodbury Cemetery - Woodbury, TX, USA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 32° 04.048 W 097° 14.516
14S E 665947 N 3549265
Fittingly, a Dove of Peace bearing an olive branch appears on the Woodmen Circle monument for Dovie Ezell in the Old Woodbury Cemetery, Woodbury, TX.
Waymark Code: WM12Y6K
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/04/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member pmaupin
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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 marble 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 or the Woodmen Circle, one of their women's auxiliaries: 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 emblem of some kind. The most common Woodmen Circle emblem is a shield with stars and stripes, with "WC" complementing the Woodmen's tools, and "In Memoriam Woodmen Circle". Here, the dove of peace is perched on the inscription scroll, which reads:

Dovie Ezell

Born
Nov. 5, 1877

Died
Jan. 31, 1913

She was a kind and
affectionate wife,
A fond mother and
friend to all.
Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch

Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description)

Address:
Old Woodbury Cemetery
FM 309
Woodbury, TX USA
76645


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