Hi Ron, Curious about the latter her, I did a search ..... found this website of interest: http://www.augustagensociety.org/cemetery.htm Do a edit on sword ... He states ... Inscriptions are voices of sentiments as expressed at the time by the families they left behind. One soldier's marble monument depicts a draped, unsheathed sword and scabbard, symbolically showing he died in battle. He did, at Petersburg, Virginia during the War. The inscription on one side of the stone notes, "What is worth living for is worth dying for," and on the other, "He was outnumbered, not outdone." Jan Ronald Weaver wrote: > Revolutionary War searchers "In your experience do you know what it would > mean that Thomas White is given > credit for "Supply Tax paid" on a returned, accepted DAR application?" > > Also do you know what the draped sword signifies that is on Thomas White's > grave marker in Evans Cemetery? > Ron > rzweaver@tqci.net > > ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237