Jesse and Eliza Tharp - Smyrna Cemetery - Near Sunset, TX
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 33° 28.613 W 097° 43.977
14S E 617726 N 3704873
Two homemade tombstones stand side by side, at the final resting place of Jesse and Eliza Tharp, in Smyrna Cemetery, near Sunset, TX.
Waymark Code: WMMYY3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member MountainWoods
Views: 1

Time and the elements have not been kind to these two markers for this husband and wife. Additions or corrections are welcomed, but the stones appear to say:

In
Memory of
Jesse Tharp

B Mar the ??
18?9 Died Feb
the 1? 18??

Blessed are the

[Stone is broken here...it may continue "the dead who died in the Lord"]

--

In Memorey
of Eliza R. Tharp

Bornd March the 14 18?? [It's possible the creator put the death year here and tried to remove it, or that is 182_]
Died Sept the 22 SC
1893 (?) Aged ? Y 6 M 8 D
Wife of Jesse Tharp

? in [Christ?] is ?
and pure.
Material: Stone

Date of Birth: Not listed

Date of Death: Not listed

Web Site: Not listed

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