If your ancestor died in a place where he did not reside, a funeral director at the place of death may have handled arrangements for embalming and the transportation of the body back to the hometown. If you have been unable to find a local funeral home that handled the burial, check with those in the place where your ancestor died. Since many funeral directors' records go back more than 100 years, they are invaluable. Four slugs from a forty-four. While not a poetic masterpiece, it does tell about the circumstances of Lester Moore's death.
Some epitaphs tell the story of death, others of how the life was lived.
Still others provide a warning or lesson. Send my samples home. Here lies the head stone. I'll be right back. Memorial Day is the traditional time when we visit the graves of our ancestors.