oakwood cemetery

Our guide heaves her left leg onto a squatty headstone, her black orthopedic shoe cloaks the engraving “Margaret P. Slocum.” Our Oakwood Cemetery tour pamphlet entitled, “Live Oaks & Dead Folks,” features a black and white drawing of George W. Cole adjacent to a sepia depiction of Luther Harris Hiscock. An illustration of a pistol resides in the negative space between the two. While Cole served for the U.S. military in the 1860s, Hiscock made advances toward his wife Mary.