10/21/2024
I also spent some time with my second paternal grandparents also the parents of baby Cecil from previous posting, and Grandma Irma Gray.
In the middle there you’ll see a stump engraved. I’ve read and learned about the Woodmans memorial club in the last week and now know the connection to all the neat half stump trees you see in older cemeteries.
Woodmen of the World Memorial markers signify that the deceased individual was a member of the Woodmen of the World organization. They are said to be Jew, catholic, atheist is sort and etc but with inflation the cost of stones per their life insurance went up from being freely included to $20 to $100 and the stumps was replaced, in short the fraternity even had their own radio station. If my fellow family members need a random good history read I suggest this topic.
