The marker on the left is for Miss Myrtle Mae Cooke who was born in Mississippi . . . and burned to death in April of 1971 in her home near Tanglewood . . . Myrtle's father died in 1908 . . . and her mother's 2nd marriage was to a great-grandson of Lemuel Samuel Pounders (one of my 3rd great-grandpas) . . . the marker on the right is for Myrtle's paternal grandma, Elizabeth (Livingston) Cook (1833-1918) . . . the verse on the bottom of Elizabeth's marker reads as follows . . .
A voice we loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our home
That never can be filled
But God has called and now the soul
is safe in Heaven.
Thinking the verse seemed somehow incomplete, I Googled it . . . and found that it usually is worded as follows . . .
A voice we loved is stilled.
A place is vacant in our home
which never can be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled.
The boon his love had given
and though the body slumbers here,
the soul is safe in Heaven.
P.S. The bluebonnets and pansies once bloomed on our family plot at this cemetery . . .
