Thursday, February 1,1990
The Battalion
Page 7
“I want to be an angel”
—from the gravestone of Nathan Franklin
Carson (1855-1917)
“His earth life past, the race is run
The battle faught (sic), the victory won
Afflictions call ne’er, reach the tomb
The dust rests here; the soul at home”
—from the gravestone of Dr. J.P. Mitchell
(1823-1879)
“Side by side they toiled together
Side by side they’re resting now”
— from the gravestone of James Mitchell
(d. 1856) and Jane M. Mitchell (d. 1860)
“The self-same hand from whence was given
Has taken back our babe to heaven”
—from the gravestone of the infant child (d. 1894) of Claude and
Mary Mitchell
“A link is broken in our household band
But a chain is forming in a better land.”
— from the gravestone of Lucy C. Carson
(1818-1921)