A tombstone for Ella, wife of J.W. Grenawalt and for their infant daughter Margie Ruth.
The sickle and sheaf, sign of a life taken too soon.
Ella died in 1894, aged 36. Margie Ruth had died the year before, just six months old and likely a victim of one of the infections now vanquished by modern vaccines. The inscription is a sad one. "A bud plucked by God To bloom in heaven."
I wonder if the tombstone was ordered when the infant died, leaving the space above blank. But as it happens, not for long. Did Ella die in subsequent childbirth? And I wonder what became of J.W.?
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