Elijah Fincher's Grave

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Elijah Fincher, Septima Fincher, and Ruth Elmira Steele are buried in the Waxahachie City Cemetary (972-937-7330) the old portion Blk 7 Grid K2 North Side. (If you stand at the entrance of the cemetary its about 10 degrees to your left near the top of the hill behind the plot for Leigh and north of Center Ave).

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We visited the cemetary in April 2001. On his grave marker is written:

Asleep, in Jesus! Blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

photo of verse

Which is the first verse of the hymn, "Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep" by Margaret Mackay 1802-1887.

2. Asleep in Jesus! Oh, how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet,
With holy confidence to sing
That death has lost his venomed sting!
3. Asleep in Jesus! Peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
That manifests the Savior's power.
4. Asleep In Jesus! Oh, for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie
And wait the summons from on high.

Also nearby were markers for Robert Hilliard Fincher 1867-1957, Martha Emily Fincher 1872-1964, and Floy Fincher Paxton 1890-1920(?).

Bad picture of Elijah's GraveStone:

Close up of two symbols. The lower is Masonic, but what is the upper one?

Septima's GraveStone:

Grave rubbing my children did

Inscription on Septima's Gravestone:
Though I walk through the valley of
The shadow of death I will fear no
evil for Thou art with me
Psalm XXIIIA.

Ruth Elmira Steele Fincher Gravestone:

On the tombstone:
GONE HOME
Ruth L. Fincher
DIED
AUG 8 1877
AGED
62 YS. 5 DYS