Tombstone Tuesday is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers which
asks bloggers to create a post including an image of a gravestone of one or
more ancestors; it may also include a brief description of the image or the
ancestor.
My great-grandparents Stephen F. Slade and Mary Effie
Morrison Slade are buried in the Olive Branch Cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia.
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| from Findagrave.com photo by Steve Poole |
THEIR LIVES WERE BEAUTY, TRUTH,
GOODNESS, AND LOVE
Stephen F. Slade
Feb 1871 (Florida) - 4 Oct 1928 (Portsmouth, VA)
Mary Morrison Slade
1878 (Tennessee) - 1959 (Portsmouth, VA)
©2014, Wendy
Mathias. All rights reserved.
I know I've said this before, but I really do like looking at these old stones. My friends think I'm morbid because I like to walk around cemeteries. Oh, well... :)
ReplyDeleteI like it too. But it would take weeks to stroll through Olive Branch Cemetery -- that place is huge.
DeleteWendy, such a lovely sentiment for the inscription!
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteThe epitaph on their grave is so beautiful. They must have been wonderful people!
ReplyDeleteI wonder who keeps the flowers?
ReplyDeleteI wonder too -- Little Rosie??? Maybe nobody now.
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