Texas has so much history to explore, and there’s always quite a lot to learn and to think about when visiting a historic cemetery like this one in Weatherford, Texas. I found several gravestones honoring war veterans who lived to a ripe old age, as well as far too many children who had died far too young. Although the Greenwood Cemetery is well tended, there were broken headstones, some of them repaired, and others so worn down as to be illegible. I saw angels, bandanas, Texas flags, one Confederate flag, and, according to local legend, a witch’s tomb. (Click on any photo to see an enlarged version)

“Veteran of Shiloh; beloved Tennessee fiddler known locally as Ike Bob”

I felt for this family, completely unknown to me, who lost a 2-day-old son in 1917 and later his sister, who died just three weeks short of her 11th birthday.

The “Witch’s Tomb” is actually the mausoleum of former whaling captain and local businessman Hiram E. Swain (1836-1883) and his daughter Katie, who died around 1884.