How 'bout, "And make ready yourself"? Sounds like good Middle Tennessee 1800's English to me. El Gringo Viejo the Transplanted Okie Paul R. L. Vance ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat" <Pat@ContinuityPress.com> To: <TNDEKALB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:20 AM Subject: RE: [TNDEKALB] Adcock Cemetery - Dekalb Co. > -----Original Message----- > From: Cis1052@aol.com [mailto:Cis1052@aol.com] > > They are again.... > > F. N. D. O. Z. B. T. K. C. A. M. R. Y. > in memory of Elizabeth Ann w/o Wm. G. Evans > June 27, 1829-January 20, 1966 Aged 30 yrs 6 mos 23 days > > > > Don't you just love these puzzle! My family originally came from this > Middle > Tennessee region and I've seen some of these on other tombstones in the > region. I speculate based on what I've seen before and maybe we can put > our > heads together and figure it out: > > "Fear Not Daughter of Zion. Behold The King Comes [And? Makes? Ready? > Y.?]" > [young?] > > (Quit laughing) > Pat > > > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Dekalb Co., TN list, send only the > word > UNSUBSCRIBE to TNDEKALB-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > List > to TNDEKALB-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

-----Original Message----- How 'bout, "And make ready yourself"? Sounds like good Middle Tennessee 1800's English to me. El Gringo Viejo the Transplanted Okie Paul R. L. Vance That sounds like an excellent guess. Also, could it be something related to Eastern Star? Pat

Pat wrote: >-----Original Message----- >How 'bout, "And make ready yourself"? >Sounds like good Middle Tennessee 1800's English to me. >El Gringo Viejo >the Transplanted Okie >Paul R. L. Vance > > >That sounds like an excellent guess. Also, could it be something related to >Eastern Star? > >Pat > > >==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== >If you wish to unsubscribe from the Dekalb Co., TN list, send only the word >UNSUBSCRIBE to TNDEKALB-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List >to TNDEKALB-d-request@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > >I belong to Eastern Star; I really don't think that the string of capital letters stands for anything in the ritual. Ve Lane in NM. I would love to find a group of people as helpful as this "bunch" when searching for my Lanes in DeKalb Co. > > > >

-----Original Message----- From: V. Lane [mailto:laneglenn@zianet.com] >I belong to Eastern Star; I really don't think that the string of capital letters stands for anything in the ritual. Thanks for letting us know. Regards, Pat