Jane Monroe Slaughter (1818-1888) - Find a Grave Memorial

Jane Monroe Slaughter

Birth

26 Jul 1818

North Carolina, USA

Death

1 Nov 1888 (aged 70)

Oplin, Callahan County, Texas, USA

Burial

Tecumseh Cemetery

Denton, Callahan County, Texas, USA Add to Map

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Jane Monroe Slaughter was b. 1818 in North Carolina. It is said that both of her parents were from Scotland. Jane spoke with a thick scottish accent. She married Joel Slaughter in 1844. They were blessed with eleven children, the first three children were born in Alabama, then the family moved westward to Jackson Parrish, LA for about a year, before moving to Arkansas where the last of the children were born: Mary Jane, Winnie Elizabeth, Jonathan Austin, Joel Worth, George W., Mary Clemenza, Luther M., Thomas M., William M., Andrew M., and Jeff. Her husband, Joel may have never returned home to Columbia County, Arkansas from the Civil War. Jane moved the family in the 1870's to Callahan County, TX. She is buried at Tecumseh Cemetery, Callahan County, TX.

Inscription

Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
In this field of green.
The name and date are chiseled out
For all the world to see.

It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I'd exist,
You died long before I was born.

Yet we are of one, you and I,
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the life you lived
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.

Author Unknown