Zyph Wiley Moore - De Leon Cemetery - De Leon, TX, USA
N 32° 06.566 W 098° 32.654
14S E 542997 N 3552656
A Dove of Peace bearing an olive branch appears on the marble Woodmen of the World monument for Zyph Wiley Moore, in De Leon Cemetery, De Leon, TX.
Waymark Code: WM12121
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/28/2020
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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 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, and "Dum Tacet Clamat" -- "Though silent, he speaks" -- is at the bottom of the emblem. Later ones, like this one, would show a simple tree stump instead, with "Woodmen of the World" around the perimeter, and the dove and the tools would be displayed somewhere on the monument. Here, the dove is perched atop the inscription scroll, which reads:
Zyph Wiley
Moore
Oct. 24, 1869
June 14, 1915
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Go home dear children
and dry your tears,
I've toiled for you
these many years,
Always strove to
do my best,
Now I've gone to
take my rest.
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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