Excerpt from the attached article from FindAGrave Contributor, Sharon Bankston, #50306074:
The Leader-Tribune, Fort Valley, Georgia, 14 Apr 1999
Religion - Keepers of the Remains, The Country Preacher, Buford Tanner (Brother of this infant child):
"...He was born dead in 1916. It was a full term pregnancy, but the baby stopping moving about two weeks before delivery time - he had died.
The grave was left unmarked not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of money. Mother never forgot where the grave was, she had two bricks on the spot, and a pint jar for flowers; mother returned as often as she could. She always thought of him as in the arms and care of Jesus. On one of my trips to visit mother, who was then 90 years old, she said to me, "The next time you come, take me to the old Tanner cemetery. I want to see the baby's grave once more. I wish I could make a cement marker for it."
NOTE: on the next visit home, Buford Tanner made that wish come true for his mother, so many years later.
The Leader-Tribune, Fort Valley, Georgia, 14 Apr 1999
Religion - Keepers of the Remains, The Country Preacher, Buford Tanner (Brother of this infant child):
"...He was born dead in 1916. It was a full term pregnancy, but the baby stopping moving about two weeks before delivery time - he had died.
The grave was left unmarked not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of money. Mother never forgot where the grave was, she had two bricks on the spot, and a pint jar for flowers; mother returned as often as she could. She always thought of him as in the arms and care of Jesus. On one of my trips to visit mother, who was then 90 years old, she said to me, "The next time you come, take me to the old Tanner cemetery. I want to see the baby's grave once more. I wish I could make a cement marker for it."
NOTE: on the next visit home, Buford Tanner made that wish come true for his mother, so many years later.
Excerpt from the attached article from FindAGrave Contributor, Sharon Bankston, #50306074:
The Leader-Tribune, Fort Valley, Georgia, 14 Apr 1999
Religion - Keepers of the Remains, The Country Preacher, Buford Tanner (Brother of this infant child):
"...He was born dead in 1916. It was a full term pregnancy, but the baby stopping moving about two weeks before delivery time - he had died.
The grave was left unmarked not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of money. Mother never forgot where the grave was, she had two bricks on the spot, and a pint jar for flowers; mother returned as often as she could. She always thought of him as in the arms and care of Jesus. On one of my trips to visit mother, who was then 90 years old, she said to me, "The next time you come, take me to the old Tanner cemetery. I want to see the baby's grave once more. I wish I could make a cement marker for it."
NOTE: on the next visit home, Buford Tanner made that wish come true for his mother, so many years later.
The Leader-Tribune, Fort Valley, Georgia, 14 Apr 1999
Religion - Keepers of the Remains, The Country Preacher, Buford Tanner (Brother of this infant child):
"...He was born dead in 1916. It was a full term pregnancy, but the baby stopping moving about two weeks before delivery time - he had died.
The grave was left unmarked not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of money. Mother never forgot where the grave was, she had two bricks on the spot, and a pint jar for flowers; mother returned as often as she could. She always thought of him as in the arms and care of Jesus. On one of my trips to visit mother, who was then 90 years old, she said to me, "The next time you come, take me to the old Tanner cemetery. I want to see the baby's grave once more. I wish I could make a cement marker for it."
NOTE: on the next visit home, Buford Tanner made that wish come true for his mother, so many years later.
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