Traveling Salesman - Lincoln, Kansas
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N 39° 02.254 W 098° 08.047
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a life-size suitcase replica in stone for business man J. S. Jacobs located in Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Kansas, USA
Waymark Code: WMPZ9E
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2015
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This life-size suitcase replica in stone for business man J. S. Jacobs is located in Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Kansas, USA.
The inscription with a gramatical error on the stone goes as follow:
"Here Is Where He Stoped Last."
According to the Roadside America.com, "A 42-year old businessman named James S. Jacobs died in 1891. According to the inscription on the limestone suitcase tombstone, "Here Is Where He Stoped (sic) Last." The legend was he was a traveling salesman, with no family, who died suddenly, leaving only his samples satchel behind, which a local stone carver modeled the grave marker after. Turns out that Jacobs was in fact a local, buried with family, but bemused business associates may have financed the novel headstone".
Address:
E. South St., Lincoln, KS, USA
Lincoln Center, more commonly known as Lincoln, is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,297.
Price of Admission: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
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