Robert Gaston - Lone Grove Cemetery - Lone Grove, OK, 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 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: It was common in the late 19th century to use a log to note that a person had died young. 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. Later ones would show a simple tree stump instead, with the dove and tools worked into the fabric of the monument.

This is a different variant, an early model, where there is no emblem whatsoever, and Mr. Gaston's association with the organization is noted by "Erected by the Woodmen of the World" on the peeled back piece of bark that also features an empty photo medallion. The dove is on a small log that is separate, a few inches above, while the inscription reads:

Robert Gaston

Born
Jan. 14, 1877
Died
Feb. 10, 1902

Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description) Address: Lone Grove Cemetery E Memorial Road Lone Grove, OK USA 73443

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