Elizabeth Bolton Moates had been without a gravestone some 108 years, since her death in 1901.  She was the mother of  eight children, John Bolton Moates being her fourth child.  In the 1880s she left Georgia, with John and his family, headed for Erath County, Texas.

Elizabeth Butler Dossey Moates had laid beside her husband, John, since her death in 1924.  She was the mother of ten children, and yet the footstone of her husband’s grave was all that marked her grave those 85 years.

May they rest now in the love of their grandchildren.

Wesley Chapel Cemetery

Bluff Dale (Erath County), Texas

Gravestone photos by Theron Magers