Cenotaph here
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Excerpts from Bob Willits' Letter to the Editor, "Mt. Pleasant News", May 28, 2008, with names added for clarity:
"My great-grandfather (Charles G. Willits) was married twice. His first wife (Rachel W Thornton) died in 1862. I can also remember Dad (Charles R. Willits) telling about his father [my grandfather] telling of the day that my great-grandfather Willits' first wife was buried. The funeral service was held at Ebenezer Church, which was located one mile south of the present Wesley Chapel, and Grandfather (Eli Thornton) Willits, who would have been 9 years old when his mother died, told of how the church bell tolled once a minute for each year of her life - she was 35 years old - as her body was being taken to Ebenezer Cemetery, which was/is one-half mile south of the church site. Her grave or gravestone has yet to be found. Her name is on the Willits Cemetery Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, where my great-grandfather and his second wife are buried."
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MEMORIAL ID 77284037 is a Cenotaph
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Excerpts from Bob Willits' Letter to the Editor, "Mt. Pleasant News", May 28, 2008, with names added for clarity:
"My great-grandfather (Charles G. Willits) was married twice. His first wife (Rachel W Thornton) died in 1862. I can also remember Dad (Charles R. Willits) telling about his father [my grandfather] telling of the day that my great-grandfather Willits' first wife was buried. The funeral service was held at Ebenezer Church, which was located one mile south of the present Wesley Chapel, and Grandfather (Eli Thornton) Willits, who would have been 9 years old when his mother died, told of how the church bell tolled once a minute for each year of her life - she was 35 years old - as her body was being taken to Ebenezer Cemetery, which was/is one-half mile south of the church site. Her grave or gravestone has yet to be found. Her name is on the Willits Cemetery Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, where my great-grandfather and his second wife are buried."
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MEMORIAL ID 77284037 is a Cenotaph
Cenotaph here
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Excerpts from Bob Willits' Letter to the Editor, "Mt. Pleasant News", May 28, 2008, with names added for clarity:
"My great-grandfather (Charles G. Willits) was married twice. His first wife (Rachel W Thornton) died in 1862. I can also remember Dad (Charles R. Willits) telling about his father [my grandfather] telling of the day that my great-grandfather Willits' first wife was buried. The funeral service was held at Ebenezer Church, which was located one mile south of the present Wesley Chapel, and Grandfather (Eli Thornton) Willits, who would have been 9 years old when his mother died, told of how the church bell tolled once a minute for each year of her life - she was 35 years old - as her body was being taken to Ebenezer Cemetery, which was/is one-half mile south of the church site. Her grave or gravestone has yet to be found. Her name is on the Willits Cemetery Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, where my great-grandfather and his second wife are buried."
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MEMORIAL ID 77284037 is a Cenotaph
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Excerpts from Bob Willits' Letter to the Editor, "Mt. Pleasant News", May 28, 2008, with names added for clarity:
"My great-grandfather (Charles G. Willits) was married twice. His first wife (Rachel W Thornton) died in 1862. I can also remember Dad (Charles R. Willits) telling about his father [my grandfather] telling of the day that my great-grandfather Willits' first wife was buried. The funeral service was held at Ebenezer Church, which was located one mile south of the present Wesley Chapel, and Grandfather (Eli Thornton) Willits, who would have been 9 years old when his mother died, told of how the church bell tolled once a minute for each year of her life - she was 35 years old - as her body was being taken to Ebenezer Cemetery, which was/is one-half mile south of the church site. Her grave or gravestone has yet to be found. Her name is on the Willits Cemetery Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, where my great-grandfather and his second wife are buried."
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MEMORIAL ID 77284037 is a Cenotaph
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