John S. McCracken -Aged 42 years! Died April 19, 1905

Back of JOHN S. McCRACKEN headstone- DIED- April 19, 1905 AGED 42 years.

120 years ago- April 19, 1905…. John S. McCracken died- age 42 years.

The back of John S. McCracken Headstone is also a detail …. telling a story of a miner, who was buried in the Bodie Cemetery.

The “carved Ivy’- symbolizing the “Eternity of Life.” The beauty of the detail- a remembrance of McCrackens life, which makes visitors stop and pause at its sight.

Not even knowing this is John S. McCracken’s grave, (by his Name or Death-Date,) the Surrounding Fence of also ornate quality- gives reverence and importance to this miners interment in the Bodie Miners’ Cemetery section of the Cemetery.

~~John S. McCracken marble headstone- “placed in this grave-plot, and its surrounding ornate wire fence by the UP-to DATE Manufacturing Company”….now has superseded his death by three times his lifespan.

~~~120 years later-the silent stone marker- Celebrates a Miner named John S. McCracken, who’s life was a short 42 years.