On Tombstones

It’s the Story

Don’t you just love a good story? 

Better yet, one set in Pawnee County. 

Have you ever seen an epitaph with an exclamation point? Or two exclamation points? I see the latter when I walk by the tombstone of Rev. Wm. Crow each time I visit family graves at the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Brownville. Rev. Crow died in 1865. His wife had died before him. Presumably it was one or all three of the…