The photo shows Major Neal (Dock) Kinton and his wife Emma Lou
Taylor Kinton at the grave of their daughter Eunice Almeda Kinton. Eunice
died at the age of twenty-seven from tuberculosis.
Dock and Emma Lou were my great-grandparents. They were laid to rest next
to Eunice. Sixty years after Eunice's death, her sister Lillie May died at
the age of ninety. She was buried on the other side of her parents.
Although the sisters died years apart, the tombstones are very similar.
When Lil died my father, W. R. (Bill) Kinton, Jr. not only tried to match Eunice's
tombstone, he answered the poem on the first stone with an inscription on the
other.
On Eunice's stone is inscribed:
O, Why should we in anguish weep
When Christians sweetly fall asleep;
O, Happy day when we shall meet
Around the throne at Jesus' feet.
The poem on Lillie May's stone is:
We have not in anguish wept
For the faith we have kept.
O, Happy day for now we meet
Around the throne at Jesus' feet.
Also, at the base of the pink marble, right there at the pedestal, you'll be
able to read (after you brush away grass clippings or any debris) an inscription
that says that this is the first monument erected in this cemetery.