Ida M. Johnson - De Leon Cemetery - De Leon, TX, USA
N 32° 06.587 W 098° 32.704
14S E 542920 N 3552695
A Dove of Peace bearing an olive branch appears on the Woodmen Circle monument for Ida May Johnson in De Leon Cemetery, De Leon, TX. Thanks to Findagrave for information about her name.
Waymark Code: WM120WG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2020
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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:
Ida M.
Johnson
Sep. 3, 1874.
June 10, 1918
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Gone but not fo-
rgotten.
Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch
Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description)
Address:
De Leon Cemetery
680 W Reynosa St
De Leon, TX USA
76444
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