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    1889 TOMBSTONE
    By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
    Spring 1998 and Revised 7 Oct 2008

    This is an actual inscription on an 1889 tombstone:

    Here lies our infant son
    Now he never hollers
    He graced us for 14 days
    And cost us $40 Dollars

    In another article in this issue mentioned using Haiku in genealogy which has the 5-syllable, 7-syllable, 5-syllable format. If the headstone were reduced to Haiku, it might read as follows:

    Here lies our infant,
    and now he never hollers.
    Gone, $40 Dollars.

    If you have any headstone inscriptions you think interesting, let us know and we'll publish them. Send them to us at dewald@prenticenet.com.

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