Once in a while, we get an urge to visit a cemetery while traveling. It is amazing how much history of a town can be learned by reading headstones.
When we saw a sign for a memorial in a cemetery in Mount Olive. The memorial was for Mary Harris “Mother” Jones. She was a celebrated union activist who died here while helping with a miners’ strike in 1930. Famous for her passionate oratory, like the phrase “Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living,” her grave is nearby, marked by a simple headstone.
What is amazing is that this is the same conflict depicted on the memorial in Virden. It gave a sense of how all these small towns are tied together.
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