Clark Cemetery - Finding a grave for a friend.

I got contacted by a friend who asked me to go over to Clark cemetery and look for a gravestone for him. I found it! It was a very interesting stone, a woodmen of the world draped obelisk. Woodmen of the World derived from the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal group which was founded in 1883. Fraternal scholar William Whalen describes it as an insurance society with some fraternal lodge features. Woodmen advertised themselves as an organization for the "Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, the agnostic and atheist." The Woodmen of the World emblem is a sawed-off tree stump, often with a mallet or beetle, an ax, and a wedge: the motto "Dum, Tacet Clamat" ("Though Silent He Speaks") usually appears somewhere on the border. These Woodmen emblems are found throughout the United States, but the largest concentration is in the South and Midwest.
The obelisk has its roots in Egyptian architecture and culture, representing a ray of sunlight. The drapery provides the added sentiment of mourning, the death shroud, or the thin veil between Heaven and earth.

https://www.facebook.com/billytaph

Treat me to a road coffee:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/billytaph