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(10-04-2016 03:51 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(10-03-2016 04:50 PM)Anita Wrote:  Do we know who paid for the granite headstone in 1921? Would copy have been submitted to the engraver or at the least who would have final approval? I agree it could just have been an engraving error.

Anita, I had forgotten (gettin' old) that I had asked about this a few years ago, but then remembered. I looked back and saw Blaine Houmes had posted an interesting theory:

"Ann Rutledge's grave stone with the poem was placed in the cemetery in 1921. Robert Todd Lincoln was still alive in 1921, and both he and his mother were enraged at the Ann Rutledge story ever since Herndon started talking about it in the 1800's. Robert Todd Lincoln didn't die until 1926.

Coincidence? Or careful editing?"

I would think that Masters would have had to approve an edited change. Perhaps he did, tacitly. I'm still leaning toward stone cutter's error or ignorance and Masters's indifference. In the genealogy work I've done, I've learned to be wary of what is on a gravestone.