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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1941)
THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON Page Three- it Potter Thursday L Illness V-Km , Start Heart no ,Hr wa born to! ' .trhrOtnwB , Kn a &.hters.Mrs.Rex tioiff""-". Alberta 8 "S Mrs. tuB"1 M?ota Underwood, of V" Serviees ijeMturaay I n rnY. Aug. E, Funeral services for fe'S. torraer resident of VtrS Hltd in Camas, '&! J ar. to be held at 10 at Camas. Grave be held at Frank 'SS out from here at 3 i Wge to charge. ,8 years of age was kKtetay. He came to the AEta 1882 and to June SSV m that year he Sft to Marie Engeberet Sin IS" they moved to auheretliey since had made 'Xl Mr. Hansen are the rSS. Marie Hansen; and Tildren, Carl I. Hansen, J. gn, and Mrs. Fred Beede, i Portland, Guy Hansen, eta City, Mrs. J. Hansen, Tud five grand children. i v i. re lover u lempie, so, Thursday ma a Temple died at his (, 1107 Seventh avenue west, nto evening. He was born t!3, 1865, in Yumatilla county, OA Zella L. Follett In ilrfon, Ore, Aug. 17, 1919. j novtd to Eugene in 1924, btirai a painting contractor until recent ill health forced toretire from business. 1. Temple is survived by his x, (here sons, Grover, Bur BdEoland; a daughter, Nancy inn listers and four brothers, Dorcu Hambleton, Ontario; Kta- Simmons, and Mrs. I Hirvey, both of Portland; Alia Simmons, Mrs. Hattie m, t M. Temple, G. W. A J. F. Temple, Dr. I. U. Alt of Pendleton. tsi arrangements will -be andiron Poole chapel. T i cm whip our cream; bul n't beat our milk. Echo Hoi toff, Phone 2935-J-2. Adv. LOCOMOTIVE CRASHES ROAD GRADER Charles Herr, 45, whose body is shown in the cab of this crushed .nnil ynf1ni AinA inGinnt1.tr at Tint- llfniMAc T ...1. n 1 . t,. -, ...t hi. vj, iiwuiua, la., WJ1VU a 11 U Lit Island passenger train and the grader collided. Epitaphs, Grim or Funny, Collected by, Chicago Man By CORRINNE HARDEST? United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, (U.PJ Grave humor is what interests William Bethel, who for 15 years has collected ec centric epitaphs all over the world. Bethel, a thin, sallow man of 54, became interested in gravestone inscriptions while touring histor ical cemeteries. His collection of epitaphs and photographs, gath ered in thousands of miles of travel and with the help of corre spondents, fills four ponderous volumes which have been sought by several libraries. "Because styles in epitaphs have grown so conservative." Bethel said, "and because ancient ceme teries are being destroyed by war or neglect, presently collections like mine will be hte only record of this colorful form of writing." Moral Fut Forward In old English cemeteries many epitaphs tried to teach a lesson or point a moral, Bethel said. The gravestone of "a drunkard in Dar neth, England, has this on it: Oh the liquor he did love but EXCLUSIVE AT' Rubenstein's 122 OWN AND IT'S YOURS! litMBAffliBflaB , PiKmaE I rr l 3yMiW J, mmi Mounts ' 1.1 i.iMiBfls (c3r?5i , V& X 3Q95 J - fl f. "eii rrtffltr hAt s .uuun iuuij; iwtofc planes, boats, teel bulldlngsl The only pott M radio that work efficient ly ta metal conveyance! or windowed steel buildings. never will not more For what he loved has turned his foe. For on the 17 of January, 1741, that fatal day The debt he owed he then did pay. In Hildenboro, Kent. England, is stone saying: "In sorrowful memory of the lady from Bickley who gave a dance in the old barn and never paid the bill." The sad plight of John Jones, buried in 179S in Hollis, N. H., is recorded on his tombstone: In youth he was a scholar brli hi, In learning be took great delight Be waa major's only son; It was by love he was undone. Among the briefs in Bethel's collection are: "He meant well, tried a little, failed much," on a grave in Lake wood, N. J. "Gone to see for myself," on the grave of an atheist in Howe, Vt. 'Talked to death by friends," Boulder, 111. " "Dr. John Gardner's last and best bedroom," in Bunhillfield, England. "School is out. Teacher has gone home," Elkhart, Ind. "I have expected this, but not so soon." In Nashua, N. H. . , Supercondensations Attempted "The desire to put a whole life's history into six or eight lines on a tombstone flourished for many years," Bethel said. "A good ex ample is a tombstone in Winter bourn, England, 1829, which says: "30 years I was a maid, 13 months a wife, one hour I was a mother and then I lostvfny life." High political feelings in 1865 is reflected in the epitaph of Elisha Bowman, Henryville, Ind., which reads: "He believed that nothing but the success of the Democratic party would ever save this union." Among Bethel's "queer ones" is a tombstone In Solon, O., with the brief but bewildering statement: "Born May 8, 1863. Died Feb. 3, 1861." . j Errors by Stonecutters Bethel explained that tomb stones recording lives, of prodigi ous length are usually the work of jokesters who add a figure or the unwitting mistakes, of stonecut ters. Bethel has photographs of tombstones depicting persons who "lived" several hundred years. Bethel regards as his oddest dis covery the grave of Nancy Martin who died at sea in 1857 and who is buried in a cask of wine in Wil mington, N. C. Her father, a sea captain, brought back her' body preserved in the barrel of wine and buried her in it, chair, wine, cask and all. A choice example of the popu lar practice of connecting a man's gravestone and his life work is found in Delphos, O., where a log cutter's grave is marked with, a huge stone log with the inscription: "He sawed logs for 40 years, but he won't saw this one." A railroad worker's gravestone bears the line: "Papa, did you wind your watch?" Huge Grave Found The largest grave Bethel pho tographed is in Stamford, Eng land, where . Daniel Lambert's headstone records that Daniel had a leg measurement of 3 feet, 1 inch; body measurement, 9 feet, 4 inches; weight, 52 stone (740 lbs.), and that 112 feet of elm were re quired to make his coffin. The most frequently encoun tered verse. Bethel Said, dating from the 14th century, . is some variation of: Stranger, stop and read. As yon are now so once was I, As I am now so shall yon be. Prepare for death and follow me. In an English cemetery Bethel found a grave where a wag had added: To follow you I'll not consent, . Until I know which way you went Although Bethel's collection numbers more than 5,000 strange epitaphs, he plans to continue col lecting. He hasn't found one he wants for himself. 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