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Subject: Mapel Grove cemetery names and note on USS COLE
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:34:35 EDT

Maple Grove Cemetery
30 Aug. 1959 by Davis & McConnell
Bott, Sharon Elaine d. 17 Oct. 1958 age 3
Branson, Daniel Trigg ( no dates on f.m.)
Canter, Mary d. 5 Sept. 1926 age 51 " Mother"
Cole, Guy M. 1897- " Father"
Cole Margaret E. 1903-1957 " Mother"
Cole Sylvia E. 1924-1927 " Daughter"
Crawford H. Jane 1839-1924
Dettor Nicholas M. 9 March 1833-18 Nov. 1909
Dettor, Margaret E. w/o N. M. Dettor, 12 July 1852-14 Jan. 1906
Dettor, Ethel J. 1873 - 1957
Dettor, Benjamin Mathias - 29 July 1875 - 28 Oct. 1940
Dickenson,James M. 10 Jan. 1839 - 28 Dec. 1919
Dickenson, Ailcy B. w/o J. M. Dickenson 1 Oct.1846-29 Nov. 1902
Dickenson, Clarence, 17 June 1883 - 20 Oct. 1937
Doane Farrah, 1879 - 1945
Dowell, J. C. 6 Sept. 1867 - 22 July 1927 " Father"
Dowell, Isabell E. 1864-1941 " Mother"
Dowell, Roy Clyde - 1897 - 1943
Gobble, Jonah - 15 March 1880 - 14 Jan. 1919
Gobble, Stewart H. s/o J.& S. C. D. Gobble 5 Dec. 1900 - 22 Jan. 1922
Goins, Fronie E. Hale w/o I. N. Goins 26 feb. 1860 - 27 May 1927 age 67y
3m,1d.
Graves, Thomas J. 24 March 1824 - 13 Feb.1891
Gentry, William Ellis - 28 Nov. 1881 - 6 Jul 1907 age 26 y 7m 8d
Gentry, James s/o M. A. & S. E. Gentry 25 Jan. to 4 Jul 1890
Grogg, Sallie 25 Dec. 1811 - 9 Jan. 1894
Grogg, John J. 1859-1930 " Father"
Grogg, Venie 1864-1945 " Mother"
Grogg, John H. s/o J. J. & L. V. Grogg 26 May 1882 - 7 Dec. 1895
Hoover, Eliza, 8 Oct.1842 - 11 Nov. 1921
Hoover, Walter H. 1869-1932
Hoover, Rosa Bell 23 Sept. 1878 - 31 Dec. 1957
Hoover, J. D. 6 June 1885 -
Hoover, Margaret Eliza 22 Jan. 1913 - 30 May 1920
no other info.
As I type this I am listening to news about the USS COLE being attacked today
in Yemen. 5 dead, dozens missing, and hurt. I live in Va. Beach and this will
hit us all hard. Please remember the crew of the USS COLE and their families
in your prayers. My husband just retired from the Navy, he was an engineman
and where the ship was hit would have been where he would have been working
had he been on a ship that was hit in this area. I would like to send a poem
about those great men and their job to honor those. It is called SNIPE'S
Lament.
Snipe's Lament

Now each of us from time to time has gazed upon the sea
And watched the warships pulling out,to keep the country free
And most of us have read a book or heard a lusty tale,
about the men who sail these ships, through lightning,wind and hail.
Its down below the water line that it takes a living toll
A hot metal,living hell that sailors call the hole.
Where boilers like a hellish heart,with blood of angry steam
are molded gods without remorse ,nightmares in a dream.

The men who keep the fires lit and make the engines run
Are strangers to the world of light,and rarely see the sun
They have no time for man or God,no tolerance for fear
their aspect pays no living thing the tribute of a tear,
For there's not much that men can do that these men haven't done.
beneath the decks deep in the hole to make the engines run.
And every hour of every day,they keep the watch in hell
For if the fires ever fail,their ship's a useless shell.

When ships converge to have a war,upon an angry sea
the men below just grimly smile at what their fate might be
They're locked below like men foredoomed who hear no battle cry.
It's well assumed that if they're hit,the men below will die.
I've seen these sweat-soaked heros fight,in superheated air,
to keep their ship alive and right,though no one knows they're there.
So when you see a ship pull out,to meet a warlike foe.
remember faintly, if you can,the men who sail below.

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