Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-20
For the Herald and Tribune.
Greene County Sees Some of the Grave
Yards of Washington County.

With some people the opinion is. that
all the great and good men live m
where else, and that town men and
neighbors are not to be considered, and
that all the good things are made, as
it is sometimes expressed, away off
yander.n The result of this credulity
given to travelling agents from our East
Tennessee cities below are seen in some
of u Washington County cemeteries
on tombs erected during last summer
and fall. Saying nothing of cheap
grade of stock and the half dozen OBJ.
jectionable features elsewhere on these
tombs, | give the readers of the Herald
and Tribune copies of epitaphs, YER
battum ct litterattun, punctuation as
given, etc.
crest mother rest In quiet sleep
While friends In sorrow ore the weep"
"Beneath this stone We've placed in trust
not the immortal but the dust of one on
earth TO us most dear who learned in youth
her God to fear"
"Kind wife of love thou art gone to thy rest!
forever to baskmid the joys of the best"
"sleep on dear IA and take thy rest God
called the home he thought 1t best"
HOW uesolalCOur nome Dereit OF tne.'
To read these epetaphs as they are,
put in q kind Of q singing twang, like
a very dull scholar who learned to read
under an ignorant old field teacher,
who did not observe nor believe in
"stops and points" Besides in No. /,
that poor old mother in in her life
time did not dream of being wept''ore"
and being the article''the," and so en-.
graved in marble after death. Nos
likewise. While No.2 gives no space
for the apostrophe, but places one
above which reads, We've" ETC., and
shows its poetry. No. A also shows its
poetry? and the writer refers to the
Deity with a little h. But | forget No.
3 with its exclamation at the end of
first line, its little f at the beginning of
second line and its "baskmid" shows
for itself.
Such work as this in the great Coun.
ty of Washington, with its colleges
schools, churches and sabbath schools,
and its various societies for the advance
ment of intelligence and religion, at
this age of the world, is a sad reproach
on our christian civilization. 1t also
depreciates the price Of realty as well
as all other property.
All men are liable to make mistakes,
but these proprietors and agents from
off yander" will certainly make a
mistake if they accidentally get up a
correct job. We learn that these fell
lows sold three other jobs in Washing.
ton County during the past summer
and fall, and that they are more ridic.
ulous still. Will our people remember
that there are men in our large towns
and cities, and travelling through the
country who do not nor never will
know what they pretend to know.
They come to tell you that they are
something which they are not. Men of
sense, intelligence, money and real
merit estimate the real value of a coun-
try or section of a country by its
churches and cemeteries. Let us not
letter Oh marble anything to cause
our progeny to weep over the ignorance
of botchers of this age. MORE ANON.
H. G. Remine, of johnson City and
Limestone, Tennessee, furnishes all
varieties and designes of marble and
granite cemetery work, and his letter.