Those Murderous Trees!!

Early on in my blog writing about cemeteries I wrote of Thomas Lynch who was killed by a tree at a young age.  Since then I have come across another young man murdered by tree.  The environment is a dangerous place, more so in the 1800's.

In Memory of

Mr.

HENRY BALLARD.

who was killed instantly

in felling a tree

Jan. 12. 1830.

AEt. 36

"There was but a step between me & death"

"Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the

day nor the hour, when the son of man

cometh"

I think I like the older cemeteries because you get this sort of anecdotal information more often.   In the times before information was so easy to find, you documented where you could.  And what better place than on your headstone.