Tombstone Tuesday:  Daniel & Mildred Marshall

 

 

This is the gravestone of my husband's paternal great-grandparents, Daniel McLeod Marshall and Mildred Eva Hendrix.  Daniel fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side, in an Alabama regiment of artillery.   Mildred ("Millie") was his third wife.  They relocated after the Civil War to Apopka, Florida, then to Lakeland, where Daniel established a farm, where he grew oranges and ran cattle.

We went down to Lakeland several years ago.  We could not find the family plot, so we went to the cemetery office.  The kind people there said they'd send someone out to help us find it, along with other family tombstones in the same plot.  We followed the cemetery employees to the tombstones, several of them in a curb-bordered family plot.  They'd all been turned over.  Cemetery workers righted the stones and placed them properly.   We took pictures.

While at the cemetery office, we got a little information from their records, one bit of which sounds like the bones of a horror story told by an old granny to a group of children in a dark old cabin.  The record said that Millie Marshall had died in 1930 and been buried in 1929.