Graveyards are full of indispensable people

Brooklyn, New York Cemetery


“Young man, as you walk down the pathway of life toward an unavoidable bald head bordered with gray hairs it would be well to bear in mind that the cemeteries are full of men this world could not get along without, and note the fact that things move along after each funeral procession at about the same gait they went before. It makes no difference how important you may be, don’t get the idea under your hat that this world can’t get along without you.”  1909 February 4, The Evening News, Press Comment, Page 2, Column 3, [Page 7], Ada, Oklahoma. …NewspaperArchive

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