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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1990)
The Battalion LIFESTYLES Thursday, February 1,1990 ‘Gone but not forgotten’ In essence, cemeteries are for the living, not the dead. Mourning families invest great amounts of caring, time, and often, money in the creation of memorials to their lost loved ones. The result is a collection of works of en during beauty. Detailed sculptures, intricate engravings and lyrical poetry can be found even in the most remote rural cemeteries — such remembrances are not bound by location, income or social class. Affluent families may erect elaborate mau soleums or pillars in their cemetery plots, but just as meaningful are the simple hand-carved wooden or stone markers. The photographs on these pages were taken at the Boonville Cemetery on Boonville Road in Bryan. Most of the gravestones date from the mid- to late 19th century. The verses quoted are epitaphs from several of the Boon ville stones. “Thou star of hope, my beaute’us light. Gives promice (sic) of some shore all bright With joy and love, where all are blest. Be thou our guide to realms of rest Or shall we meet on some bright shore Where grief nor death shall come no more And join the loved ones gone before, To live and love forever more” —from the Mitchell family tomb “Two precious voices from us have gone. The voices we loved are stilled, Those places vacant in our home. And never can be filled.” — from the gravestone of M.C. Steed (d. 1912) and L.E. Steed (d. 1934)