The Graveyard Shift
Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia
Beloved Southern author Joel Chandler Harris wrote the "Uncle Remus" classics. The touching inscription on his tombstone was taken from a letter he wrote to Arthur Barbette Frost.
"I seem to see before me the smiling
faces of thousands of children-some young and fresh, and some wearing
the friendly marks of age, but all children at heart-and not an unfriendly
face among them. And out of the confusion, and while I am trying hard
to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest,
saying 'You have made some of us happy.' And so I feel my heart fluttering
and my lips trembling, and I have to bow silently and turn away, and hurry
back into the obscurity that fits me best."