Update: Leonard Sims

I orginally posted in June 2010 Leonard Sims' headstone.

This week I recieved an email from Lawana whos great uncle was Leonard Sims.  She was so kind to provide the following information.

Leonard Sims was from Mountainburg, Arkansas and he purchased and operated the Silver King Saloon in Shawnee, OK. Leonard, Anne Long and her mother, Eula Long were having dinner when Charles McKnight came in and started cussing. This made Leonard very mad because you just didn't do that around women in 1901. Later on that night, about 11 p.m. he went to confront McKnight at the Betts Saloon where he was a Faro dealer. Sims attacked McKnight with a knife slashing him across the arm. McKnight drew a revolver, Sims grabbed it but Mcknight was able to pull the trigger. The shot passed through Sims' hand and struck James Hufstedler in the heart, killing him. Mcknight was able to free the gun from Sims and fired a second time. This shot struck Sims over the left eye killing him.

Lawana's grandfather Jesse, Leonard's brother, was there and saw the fight. Leonard was going to make him a partner at the Silver King Saloon in February when he turn 18. Jesse put Leonard's body on a train to be sent back to Arkansas. But he did not return with the body. Their father, Benjamin, and two other family members traveled to Shawnee and sold everything leaving Jesse out complete. After Mcknight was tired in court and acquitted the Sims family stood by watching one stormy night and just as lightning struck Jesse said "There is that son-of-bitch."  And with tears on his checks he made a sign of cutting from ear to ear. 

I was able to find the following information on http://www.ancestry.com/.

Information for Leonard Sims.

1880 United States Federal Census about Leonard Sims

Name: Leonard Sims
Home in 1880: Upper, Crawford, Arkansas
Age: 2
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Birthplace: Arkansas
Relation to Head of Household: Son
Father's Name: Benjamin Sims
Father's birthplace: Missouri
Mother's Name: Rachel Sims
Mother's birthplace: Alabama
Occupation: At Home
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Benjamin Sims   45
Rachel Sims   29
Jane Sims  11
William Sims   9
Laura A. Sims   7
Martha A. Sims   5
Leonard Sims   2

1900 United States Federal Census about Leonard H Simms
Name: Leonard H Simms
Home in 1900: Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma
Age: 21
Birth Date: Nov 1878
Birthplace: Arkansas
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relationship to head-of-house: Bar Keep
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Marital Status: Single
Household Members: Name Age
Vol E Sayers   38
Harry Dreyfus   27
James Christopher   10
Charlie Mazzio   50
Henry Flynn   Unkn
Idella Gales   Unkn
May Brotherton   24
Lou Bullad   22
Frank Rhodes   Unkn
Walter L Dilworth   Unkn
A A Keappler   Unkn
William F Hanna   Unkn
William Irwin   Unkn
Leonard H Simms   21

Information for Charles McKnight.

1930 United States Federal Census about Charles P Mcknight

Name: Charles P Mcknight
Home in 1930: Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma
Age: 52
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Birthplace: Texas
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Eula B Mcknight
Race: White
Household Members: Name Age
Charles P Mcknight   52
Eula B Mcknight  44

1920 United States Federal Census about Charles V Mcknight

Name: Charles V Mcknight
[Charles V Mc Knight]
[Charles P Mcknight]
Home in 1920: Shawnee Ward 2, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma
Age: 42
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Birthplace: Texas
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
[Head]
Spouse's Name: Eula B Mcknight
Father's Birth Place: Arkansas
Mother's Birth Place: Arkansas
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Own
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: Name Age
Charles V Mcknight   42
Eula B Mcknight   38
Morris C Mcknight   14

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 about Charles Parks Mcknight
Name: Charles Parks Mcknight
County: Pottawatomie
State: Oklahoma
Birth Date: 1 Sep 1876
Race: White
FHL Roll Number: 1852124
DraftBoard: 0

Update: George Thomas Ray

The original post for George Thomas Ray was made in Feb 2011. I have had very little success in finding any information about him.  I was pointed to a website that had the following information.  I am not sure if it is the same George Thomas Ray but I think it might be.

The following excerpt is from http://www.historical-footprints-2010.com/bunch_3.html by Barbara Inman Beall.

Threats at Bryant Home

Mr. [John A. (Alfred) ] Bryant's daughter, Lucy, in a Press interview, Sept. 7, 1922, then Mrs. Lucy Blakely, told of her father's escape but only mentioned two men coming to the house.

"One day in January," she said, "there rode up to the home of my father, John A. Bryant, two men from down on Shoal creek. One was Joe Thompson and the other was Tom Rae. Rae was wearing a Union solder's overcoat and carried a rifle while Thompson was dressed in ordinary civilian garb and was armed with a double-barrelled shotgun.

My father had been sick in bed and was sitting up in a chair that day for the first time. Our visitors wanted him to go outdoors with them but he refused, stating that he was not able. They talked for quite a while, urging on my father the advantages of declaring himself for the south and tried on various pretexts to get him to come outside. Finally Thompson rose in a rage.

"Well, if you will not go outside I will kill you anyway right here," he said with an oath, cocking his shotgun and aiming it at my father's breast.

"We children set up a scream and my mother sprang in front of my father. I remember yet exactly how the caps on Thompson's gun looked as he stood there with the weapon leveled. It was Rae who saved us.

"Come out of here, Joe," he said, "or you will scare these children to death." And Thompson sullenly lowered his gun and complied.

Murder of Brice Martin

"From our house they went a quarter of a mile south to the home of Brice Martin, mother's brother, and called him out to the fence. They talked awhile and Mrs. Martin, coming to the door, saw her husband turn away and start back to the house. As he did so, one of the men fired with the double-barrelled shotgun, the charge of buckshot striking my uncle in the back and killing him instantly. My aunt always said that the man in the blue overcoat fired the shot but my mother and father had known Tom Rae all their lives and could never believe that he would so murder Brice Martin with whom he was well acquainted.

"My aunt ran down to our house to tell what had happened…Eliza Parnell spread the word of the murder and my mother went up and watched by the body which lay until 9 o'clock in the yard where it had fallen. We had many good neighbors, some of them northern sympathy, most of them southern but not a man on either side dared to go after the body until 9 o'clock for fear of being murdered. Then two southern sympathizers, George Hammer and John Rafedy, and a Union man, James Landers, slipped up to the Martin's home under cover of darkness, picked up the body and brought it to our house where it was left that night.

Southern Home Guard Aids

"There was something of a panic among the people of the neighborhood following the killing, especially those known to favor the cause of the north. My father did not dare stay home that night and he and Marsh Parnell went over to the home of Mrs. Sally Keith over close to the Carthage road, and laid there concealed in the attic all night. The Parnells were almost all southern people, but Marsh was known as a Union man and his life was in as much danger as anyone's despite his southern kindred.

"Everyone in the neighborhood was at first afraid to have anything to do with the Martin funeral, but finally James Bunch, captain of a southern home guard company, said he would have the grave dug and would furnish protection to those coming to the burial. He and his men dug the grave in the cemetery of the old Freedom Baptist church near Moss Springs and a man in Fidelity made a coffin. My uncle was buried the next day, there being a considerable number of women present, a few men, including my father and Marsh Parnell, and a number of Captain Bunch's home guard company.

"Immediately after the funeral the Union men took to the timber and prepared to leave the country that night. There were in the party besides my father and Marsh Parnell, Dr. D. F. Moss, Riley Moss, William Spencer and several others, perhaps as many as a dozen all told. They made their way safely to Kansas and we stayed alone until two months later when they came back with a detachment of Union soldiers and took us to Fort Scott." [29]

John A. Bryant (Alfred Bryant) was the brother of Adeline Elizabeth Bryant Spence, wife of Lazarus Spence. The John Bryants fled to Fort Scott, Kansas and never returned to Jasper Co., Missouri. They spent the rest of their lives in Kansas. John Bryant's wife was Nancy Martin, who was the sister of Brice Martin, the man who was murdered. The Prigmores and Martins had intermarried. And, of course, Nimrod Porter Bunch's wife was a Prigmore.

The newspaper account did not identify the man from Fidelity who made the coffin, but I have an idea it was Nimrod Bunch. Brother Jim and his men dig the grave in Moss Springs, and had a man in Fidelity make the coffin. Given the Bunch ancestry of carpenters and cabinet makers, Nimrod would have been an excellent candidate for the job. That may have been the reason why the Nimrod Bunch family left the area during the remainder of the war. They went to Johnson Co., Missouri (near Warrensburg), where their child, Leander, was born and where a number of Prigmores were living. They did not return to Jasper County until after the war had ended.

Brice Martin was only 17 years of age when he was killed.

One discovery generally leads to another question. In this case, the question had a double segment: who were Tom Rae and Joe Thompson and what happened to them?


George Thomas Ray was born in Kentucky in 1833 to John Ray (1805-1860) and Sarah A. Spears (1805-1892). The Rays lived in Neosho, Newton Co., Missouri. Tom's wife's name was Emeline (b. 1833). Their children were:

Jennette Ray 1852 -
Laurette Ray 1855 -
Frances Ray 1857 -
Etta Ray 1862 -
George T Ray 1863 - [30]

On March 14, 1862, a little over two months after the Brice Martin murder and according to the inscription on his tombstone, Tom Ray was murdered on the Neosho courthouse square. He was 29 years of age when he was killed. [Perhaps he was going to turn in someone for the murder of Brice Martin??!!]

Update: Bright Murders

My original post about theses murders was posted in February of 2011. Since then I have discovered more news clippings on the murders of the Bright family as well as a few on what happened to Gary Earl Bright afterwards.

According to theses articles Gary Earl Bright was sent to a juvenile detention center in Missouri for the murders of his family. About a year later he was released to his father's care.  His farther married Alden Kathleen Webb sometime between 1957 and 1960. In 1960, Gary attacked his step-mother with a wrench and was then sentenced to 15 years in prison for the attack.

Theses are articles from 1957. Most of these repeat each other but the two that added details I separated out and posted them first. 

Brownsville Herald Nov 27, 1957

Daily Register Nov 26, 1957

Three months after the murders Gary Earl Bright was found sane and then placed in a juvenile detention center in St. Louis, MO.

Joplin Globe Feb 4, 1958

Theses are the articles from 1960 when he attacked his step-mother.

The Bee July 23, 1960

Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune Oct 12, 1960

The Gettysburg Times Oct 13, 1960

Update: Annie Apple Van Marm

Original post on May 20, 2010.

First Update on April 30, 2011.

I recently got to exchange a few emails with a friend of Annie Apple Van Marm's and she was kind enough to send me a few photos of her.  She also told me that Annie made all the Tye-Dyed items in the photos. Thank you so much for sending me the photos.  It is such a wonderful thing to put a beautiful face with such a unique memorial.

Annie Apple Van Marm

1971 - 1991

Update: Coop Loftin's Mother

Previous post Some How This Is Worse.

I think I may have found her! I spent hours on http://www.ancestry.com/ looking through Loftin records and now I think I have a name for her, MARY A. E. LOFTIN, Dau of Jesse and Nancy McBroom and wife of Eschew (Askew) Loftin.

I started out with this Census record from 1900.

 1900 United States Federal Census about Coop Loftin
Name: Coop Loftin
[Thadeus Henderson 'Coop' Loftin]
Home in 1900: Boston, Washington, Arkansas
[Vineyard, Washington, Arkansas]
Age: 45
Birth Date: Mar 1855
Birthplace: Alabama
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Father's Birthplace: Alabama
Mother's Birthplace: Alabama
Spouse's Name: Sarah P Loftin
Marriage year: 1882
Marital Status: Married
Years married: 18
Household Members: Name Age
Coop Loftin 45
Sarah P Loftin 37
Henry Loftin 17
James Loftin 14
Annie Loftin 6

Thadeus Henderson 'Coop' Loftin is also buried in Antioch Cemetery.  But the nickname "Coop" was not on his headstone.

Sarah F. Loftin

July 4, 1861 - Apr 9, 1928

T.H. Loftin

Mar 1, 1858 - Apr 2, 1938

So I started backtracking from there. And I found a 1860 Census that listed Thadues's parents as Eschew (Aschew) Loftin and Mary A E Loftin.

1860 United States Federal Census about Mary A E Loftin
Name: Mary A E Loftin
Age in 1860: 31
Birth Year: abt 1829
Birthplace: Alabama
Home in 1860: District 2, Cherokee, Alabama
Gender: Female
Post Office: Centre
Household Members: Name Age
Eschew Loftin 28
Mary A E Loftin 31
Sarah C Loftin 8
Jesse Loftin 6
Mary E Loftin 4
Thadeus H Loftin 1

This is an article listing Askew Loftin's muster roll of Cherokee County AL.

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 about Askew Loftin
Name: Askew Loftin
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Alabama
Regiment Name: 48 Alabama Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: 48th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
Company: H
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Film Number: M374 roll 27

If you look at http://history-sites.com/~kjones/48hmstr.html you will notice Askew went to battle with a few of Mary's brothers.

I recently recieved an email from a family member of Askew's who has been working on their family tree who confirmed that this is Mary A. E. McBroom Loftin's grave.  She also informed me that "Askew died 11 Sept 1862 in Richmond, VA after the Battle of Manassas.  It is believed that he died of disease in the hospital, rather than from a battle wound.  I have been in contact with the national cemeteries in the area and none have a record of his grave.  They feel that he may have been buried in a mass grave, which was not uncommon during the war."
By 1870 she was widowed.

1870 United States Federal Census bout M A E Lofton
Name: M A E Lofton
Birth Year: abt 1829
Age in 1870: 41
Birthplace: Alabama
Home in 1870: Township 10 Range 9, Cherokee, Alabama
Race: White
Gender: Female
Household Members: Name Age
M A E Lofton 41
Jessee Lofton 15
Elisabeth Lofton 13
Thadius H Lofton 12
George W Lofton 8

Here is the 1850 Census stating her parents names.

1850 United States Federal Census about Mary Mcbroom
Name: Mary Mcbroom
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827
Birth Place: Alabama
Gender: Female
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 27, Cherokee, Alabama
Family Number: 1016
Household Members: Name Age
Jesse Mcbroom 51
Nancy Mcbroom 37
Mary Mcbroom 23
Wm Mcbroom 18
Louisa Mcbroom 16
James Mcbroom 14
Margaret Mcbroom 12
Mariah Mcbroom 9
Enoch Mcbroom 7
Naomi Mcbroom 4

Update: Annie Apple Van Marm

Back in May of 2010 I posted a blog titled "Complete with real skulls" of this very interesting grave located in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR.

I posted her name as Annie Applemar in the previous post.  I now believe her name is actually Annie Apple Van Marm, thanks to a much better photo posted on Arkansas Gravestones Project website and a little research I have done.

Here is the photo that Vickie Kane posted on the Arkansas Gravestones Project website.

You can clearly read "Annie Apple Marm" but if you look real close you can see the word "Van" is wedged in as if it was originally forgotten and added later.

So I started researching both names and this is the information I have come up with.

Note:

I may be reading this wrong but to me the following sounds to me as if Annie's mother, Luana, is writing to this website and also channeling Annie as well.  I could be completely wrong but that is the way I am reading it. You can also go to the cited link below and see where Luana said :

"Annie Apple is dead....and working INTENSLY with all of Us here, form beyond the vail"

Letters From Annie Apple's Mom (and Annie Apple) (http://www.educate-yourself.org/lte/letterannieapplesmom14sep05.shtml , April 29, 20011)

From: luana
To: Educate-Yourself
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: POWERFUL , Mother, Priestesses

Yes, Miss Annie Apple Van Marm, "The Rainbow Dancer"

She was the vegan, tye dye queen, and stage dancer for the Greatful Dead, She danced with beautiful rainbow scarfs that She dyed Herself.

Hit on a bridge by a Wal Mart truck, the cameras immidiately started rolling right after the accident, so I saw the whole thing from many angles....a hundred times....including the part where She looked into the camera and whispered "mamma" ....and than, with the speed of insanity, She gasped and died.

500 people showed up for Her funeral and She is still to this day a local, and even an international legend......

Annie was Jerry Garcia's and Bobby Wier's favorite tye dye artist and stage dancer, singer and 12 string guitar player.....they came to Her funeral and payed for everything....so did Willy Nelson and members of his family

The article of her death and life was on the frount page of the Arkansas newspaper and they refered to Her as a "national Treasure"....Her beauty and power and art and dancing and music were also mentioned.

Her Father is Bernard Petar Van Marm who is a multimedia artist in Chicago

She never went to any school....She was a raw food vegan all of Her life. She studyed music and art since She was 5 years old

To say that She was physicaly beautiful, that would be an understatement...Long Golden Hair and big fat lips and boobs, and dazzeling blue eyes.

That is how She was in Life

This is how She is now

Hi Ken,
This is Annie, I read a lot of Your posts with My Mom, and of course She reads aloud all of the very amazing letters and s.a. s that are written in from others. I am here just outside of a warp from my Mom, I am here with a group of very cool and informed dead people and we work like You in-body do, we help pull everything together. I stay here with my mom and sister, Delilah, a lot, and I do many things for them because I am now able to go in and out of them, so I sometimes lend them my perspectives, and to gather we have been doing a lot of magic with our work to increase the Heart vibration of Earth Humans both dead and living.

Just like where You are there in body, there are also MANY dangers here, and MUCH work to be done....the lower levels here are choked with fumes and little pieces of Our Mother's Heart that just drift aimlessly without much consciousness ...My Mother and I have opted to go to these places and magnetically pull these tortured and confused magnetic particles into Our Loving Hearts, bring them to "the Light" and figure out what they need to live and be happy and sweet....again.

I very much appreciate it that You are curious about Me, very flattered and I Love the Miracle of being able to talk to You.

Annie Apple Van Marm

Wow !

Luana here, Why did You say that You were "Facinated"....was that a typo? cause if it wasn't....OMG !!!

I'm still on storm control duty so I gotta get back to that now.

and

Dont worry if I say "I Love You" ....in My clan here at My cottage we use "I Love You's" like comas and periods....just not the fake kind of "I Love Yous" rather We say I Love You in FULL counciousness.....so stress not ....We REALLY DO, "Love You"

so sue Us

Luana, Delilah and Annie Apple

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I also found a website that had a photo of Annie's grave and the referred to it as a  Local Witch's Grave.  (You can click the link and read what they have written about it.)

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I am still looking for more information so if any of you happen to come across any please feel free to send it my way.

Update

Here is another photo I took at a different visit http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-photo-i-like_15.html

Photos of Annie can bee seen here http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-annie-apple-van-marm.html

Update: The West Family Crosses

In Sept of 2010 I posted a blog on the West Family Crosses. Thanks to my friend Theresa more information was found. 

CAPTAIN DIGBY B. WEST.

Captain Digby B. West, who became well known as one of the successful farmers of Arkansas, established his home in the vicinity of Berryville in 1889 and there resided to the time of his demise in 1902. He was fifty-six years of age when death called him, for his birth occurred in Ireland in 1846. He was a son of Dean West, who was a dean of the Episcopal church of Ardagh, Ireland, and later in Presteign, Wales. Digby B. West was the third in order of birth in a family of eight children.

He acquired a good education in an agricultural college at Cirencester, England, and was a magistrate in County Roscommon, Ireland, and also became captain of the Royal Longford Rifles of Ireland. He came to America in 1882, settling on a farm in Texas, and remained in that state for seven years, but his experience
there was anything but encouraging. His family were all sick and he lost considerable money while attempting to found a home in the Lone Star state. He had enough left to bring his family to Arkansas, when in 1889 he decided to try his fortune in this state and settled on a farm which he purchased near Berryville. Immediately he began to prosper and he continued to live on his farm throughout his remaining days, devoting his attention to the work of further improvement and development. In 1900 he set out a nice apple orchard of fifty acres and in 1920 Mrs. West shipped sixteen carloads of fine apples. It was in England, in 1868, that Mr. West was united in marriage to Miss Fanny Louisa Swindell, who was born in England, near London. She is a daughter of John S. and Mary Louisa (Bond) Swindell. Her father was a highly educated man, being a graduate of the Royal Engineers College of England, and he devoted his life to the profession of civil engineering. Mr. and Mrs. West became the parents of thirteen children, of whom eight are living: Francis married W. J. Jamison of Baltimore, and they are now living in Berryville. He has devoted his attention to the hotel and banking business and he also managed Deer Park Hotel, Maryland, in the summer seasons; Digby West, the second of the family, is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Sidney is an engineer on an ocean steamship and makes his home at San Francisco, California; Charles is a druggist of Minnesota; Fred is a railroad man, living at Eureka Springs, Arkansas; Heyrick C. follows farming in the vicinity of Berryville; Lucy is the wife of E. V. Wier, conducting a dry goods store in the vicinity of San Diego, California; John lives on his mother's farm and manages the orchard. All are members of the Episcopal church, but as there is no church of that denomination in Berryville, Mrs. West attends the Methodist Episcopal church and is pianist for the congregation. In politics Mr. West was an ardent democrat. Mrs. West lives in a comfortable home in Berryville. The family is most highly esteemed and Mr. West left to his wife and children not only a comfortable competence but also that priceless heritage of an untarnished name.

Citation: Centennial History of Arkansas Volume II Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1922

File at: http://www.files.usgwarchives.org/ar/carroll/bios/west4nbs.txt

Update: Joplin - Neosho Train Crash

I have blogged on this inccident twice before. The orginal post, in May 2010, was fairly basic. But the second post, in February 2011, I was able to track down most of the death certificates of the victims.  After writting the second post I made a trip back to the Neosho I.O.O.F. Cemetery to see if I could locate the headstones of the ones who are buried there.  Sadly the snow had not melted off enought to do much searching.  However, I was able to find the Harmon Family Plot that sits directly behind the Memorial Monument. I do plan to go back soon and see if I can find any others.

This is the Harmon Family Plot marker

Josie

Feb 24, 1880

Aug 5, 1914

Loyd

Feb 5, 1906

Aug 5, 1914

Ray

Aug 3, 1901

Aug 5, 1914

Stella

Dec 10, 1909

Aug 5, 1914

Update: Joplin - Neosho Train Crash

Back in May of 2010 I posted a blog on the Joplin - Neosho Train Crash featuring the memorial I found that listed only 15 of the 43 people that perished in the accident.  I set out to see if I could find all the names of the victims and any additional information.  I am happy to say I was able to find 31 of the 43 victims and some additional info.

From Railway age gazette, Volume 57

The following is from The Railroad trainman, Volume 31 By Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

Update: Seddie

I finally received an email back from Bellefontaine Cemetery and this is the info they provided:
The monument belongs to:
Seddie L. Clark
12/20/1864

Here is my Original Post which I have corrected the info on.

Update on: Death Head Angel

I just found the answer to what these were called.  In Stories in Stone a Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister he has a section on the evolution of the Death Head which is now called a Soul Effigy. He even has photos to go along with the section to show how the Death Head went from a skull and bones to an angel head with wings.

My Original Post

If you haven't read this book it is a great book that every cemetery wander should own a copy.

Update on: What Material Is This?

Thanks to Apple, a reader of this blog, she was able to find out what material the marker, I found, was made from.  It is Ceramic.  Woohoo! My first ceramic marker! She also posted a great link to an article I think is worth sharing, "Ceramic Gravestones in Missouri and Kansas."

Here is my orginal: What Material Is This?

Thanks again Apple!

Return visit: More information on Poignant Monument

UPDATE:  Poignant Monumnet

A wonderful contributor on Find-A-Grave by the screen name of francescag was able to translate this for me. This is what she says:

"Wayfarer!

Who have lost everything,what was the dearest in all world,

Fatherland,

the parents,the friends,

the wife,the children.

Leave for me compassionating tear.

For my Milena?(it's a pity,I can't see weel last sentence,but I belive it's "for my Milena-Milena it's a female name)"

Return visit: More information on Legend Says...

I have found some more information to a previous post I made and thought I would share it.  I have always found local folklore interesting.  And this one is interesting as well.

Original Post - Legend says...

Follow up information.

Hope you enjoy the information.