Frank Crow - Oakwood Cemetery - Honey Grove, 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 later headstones would be marked with a Woodmen of the World emblem of some kind. Very early ones, like this one, typically lack an emblem, and are identified by the tools of the woodmen's trade -- hatchet, mallet, and wedge -- along with a banner or ribbon that says "Erected by the Woodmen of the World", their motto, "Dum tacet clamat," and a dove with an olive branch. This is one of those early monuments, lacking a Woodmen emblem, but there is a ribbon with "Erected by W.O.W." just below the mourning dove, and note how the tools are apart from the trunk. There is also a ribbon with "Dum tacet clamat." The inscription is:

Frank Crow

Born
July 26, 1854,

Died
Oct. 15, 1900

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A loving husband
A father dear,
A faithful friend
Lies buried here.

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This one is an anomaly, as it's common knowledge that Woodmen don't "lie."

Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description) Address: Oakwood Cemetery 5th and Oak Streets Honey Grove, TX USA 75446

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