The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-05-05
ESTABLISHED 1894
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ON HEAD STONES.
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Work Is Done by Human
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Horny Herald.
Quite bit of interest has been
created in town and the nearby coun-
try by freakish pictures that have
recently made their appearance on
two or three tombstones in the Fair
Bluff cemetery.
The tombstones in question are Of
snow white marble, on one OF them,
erected in 1911 over the grave of a
well known lady, there is the very
distinct outlines Of a woman's head
and body on side fronting over thee
grave. The most conspicuous featur.
is the hair. The facial features are
dim and vague but the hair surround
ing the head is as perfect and natural
as in any photograph.
1t is done up in colonial style and
with the other features it appears to
be imbedded in the stone with a thin
veil o. stone covering it and partly
hiding it from the onlooker. In the
same family plot over a grave of a
brother of the lady who died in 1908,
there Is a perfect reproduction of a
saddle of the style that is known as
n Texas saddle, deep seated and with
$<ie high horn and flanks common
with this variety. Even the heavy
fstraps and heavy leather stirrups are
tbere- Coincident with the presence
of the saddle on the stone it is in
teresting to note that the young man
buried in that particular grave was a
bit wild and that he spent some time
In the West at the stock yard
The foregoing dispatch, which ap-
in Of
Raleigh, North Carolina, having been
sent into that newspaper by some cor
respondent in Fair Bluff, North Caro-
lina caused some interest in Conway
as there is prominent people here
who have deceased relatives at Fair
Bluff.
81 The Herald has taken steps to
have this matter investigated to
find out IL the likenesses referred to
are actually appearing on these tomb
stones in accordance with the reports
which are now being widely circulat-
ed throughout this section of South
Carolina and throughout the counties
srof Robeson and Columbus.
1t Is stated on good authority by
n persons whose word cannot be doubt
ed that similar occurrence has talk
en- place and that this is located on
some tombstones in Dillon county,
somewhere between Dillon and Latta,
South Carolina. The story is told
that some years ago on one of tho
tombstones in a country cemetery
there appeared the head and should
ers OF a lady and an infant in her
arms above the grave where a lady
had been buried. This likeness upon
granite was Illuminated at first
d great extent and it could be seen
IT some distance away from the
.raveyard. In later years this like
ness mas become dim but it is there
Z sufficiently clear to be seen and ap-
pears to be inlaid within the surface
of the stone so that it would be hard
for any scientist to explain how any
artist could have transferred such a
picture to the stone and especially
to have illuminated it. The Herald
has had this story concerning the
likeness in Dillon County from one
who has gone and looked at the like
ness on the tombstone and there is
not a doubt but what the drawing
appears there, and while the Herald
informant has to depend upon
stories told by others as to when
this took place and as to the bril-
liancy of the illumination referred to
when the phenomenon first appeared,
neither can he bell how many years
it has been since the death of the
lady took place nor how long after
that before the likeness appeared.
OF course it is hard to believe that
anything Of this kind could happen
in nature. There is no way whereby
photograph even can be produced
irlaid as an ornament within the
stone, or so it would appear.
The only reasonable explanation OF
the matter would be that some per-
son possessed of some secret process
OF. transferring pictures into stone
entered the cemetery and performed
this trick to astonish others and for
ever kept his secret.
Things do happen in this world
that are hard to explain, but many
Of such things have been traced out
to perfectly natural causes and SO
they should have been, and so will
others be in the course of time as
the understanding Of man increases
with the help of past experience.