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♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
Lon was only twenty six years old when he was struck and killed by a bolt of lightening.
His wife was desolate at the loss of her young husband.
Advertisements placed by Mrs. Dorsa appear in old city directories, offering her services as a seamstress. It may have been by this means that she paid for the most unusual of monuments for her husband's grave.
She placed an order with the Brophy Monument Company of Carthage, Missouri for the largest block of limestone ever shipped to Nevada.
The block occupied a whole railroad flatcar and when it arrived at the station instead of being delivered, it was left sitting in the railroad yards, or 'spotted' on a siding.
A local stonecutter, Tom Berrigan, worked on the huge slab of limestone for thirty-two successive days. He worked away at the block right there on the flatcar with mallet and pointing chisel, hollowing it out until enough weight was removed for the huge stone to be moved from the railyard.
When the vault was finished it looked like a huge stone bathtub with a heavy, vaulted lid. It was, in principal, like some of the ancient tombs of the pharaohs of Egypt.
Mrs. Dorsa wasn't yet satisfied. She had a large hole cut into the lid of the vault and a huge stone Bible placed over the opening. The coffin inside was covered with a glass top. The Bible was equipped with a lock and when unlocked would pivot to the side so that Mrs. Dorsa was able to commune with 'my dear husband' as the inscription reads.
When eventually the remains of her husband started to surrender to time, her family had the monument firm remove the pivot and lock and cement the Bible in place, preventing the 'viewing' of the remains of Lon by his grieving widow.
On October 11, 1983 vandals struck. Prying off the stone Bible, they broke the glass underneath and took the skull of Lon Dorsa.
For a time Lon's remains lay open to view, his bony arms crossed over his chest.
Police soon recovered his skull and returning it to the cemetery officials, it was buried somewhere on the lot.
The Bible, damaged beyond repair was replaced with a plain stone slab, cemented down.
A porcelain likeness made from a photograph of Dorsa once filled an oval socket on her husband's vault front, but it too was broken and the pieces lost over time.
The vault of Mr. Dorsa is still there underneath the large pine tree.
A nearby grave is marked, Flora M. Dorsa, (1880-1902), she is the sister of Lon.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
On March 7, 2013, I, Beverly, talked to the wife of the current owner-operator of the Brophy Monument Co in Nevada, MO.
She said the monument company had always been in Nevada but that the granite had been quarried in Carthage and shipped by rail to the monument co. Her husband is a descendant of the Brophys that were operating the company at the time of Lon's death.
She said that she herself remembers going years ago while the granite Bible was still on the grave and looking into the tomb. She said you could see Mr Dorsa laying there with his hands crossed on his chest. That you could see his facial features and hair, that he seemed to be pretty much mummified. She said that after the hole had been cut in the top and the Bible placed over it that there had been a 2 inch thick piece of glass sealed over the whole top of the tomb, locking out any moisture.
She told me that after the glass was broken and Mr Dorsa's skull taken the rest of the body deteriorated
rapidly once moisture got to it.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
March 8, 2013 a marriage license for Lon and Neva was located on file at the Vernon Co, MO. courthouse in Nevada, MO.
They were united in holy matrimony February 12, 1895 at the home a 'minister of the gospel' S. P. Clayton, in Vernon Co, MO
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3.9.2013, contacted by a distant cousin of Lon's, Taj Magruder, Ancestry.com, he confirmed from his records that Lon is in fact the son of Fred J and Cordelia 'Kelley' Dorsa.
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♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
Lon was only twenty six years old when he was struck and killed by a bolt of lightening.
His wife was desolate at the loss of her young husband.
Advertisements placed by Mrs. Dorsa appear in old city directories, offering her services as a seamstress. It may have been by this means that she paid for the most unusual of monuments for her husband's grave.
She placed an order with the Brophy Monument Company of Carthage, Missouri for the largest block of limestone ever shipped to Nevada.
The block occupied a whole railroad flatcar and when it arrived at the station instead of being delivered, it was left sitting in the railroad yards, or 'spotted' on a siding.
A local stonecutter, Tom Berrigan, worked on the huge slab of limestone for thirty-two successive days. He worked away at the block right there on the flatcar with mallet and pointing chisel, hollowing it out until enough weight was removed for the huge stone to be moved from the railyard.
When the vault was finished it looked like a huge stone bathtub with a heavy, vaulted lid. It was, in principal, like some of the ancient tombs of the pharaohs of Egypt.
Mrs. Dorsa wasn't yet satisfied. She had a large hole cut into the lid of the vault and a huge stone Bible placed over the opening. The coffin inside was covered with a glass top. The Bible was equipped with a lock and when unlocked would pivot to the side so that Mrs. Dorsa was able to commune with 'my dear husband' as the inscription reads.
When eventually the remains of her husband started to surrender to time, her family had the monument firm remove the pivot and lock and cement the Bible in place, preventing the 'viewing' of the remains of Lon by his grieving widow.
On October 11, 1983 vandals struck. Prying off the stone Bible, they broke the glass underneath and took the skull of Lon Dorsa.
For a time Lon's remains lay open to view, his bony arms crossed over his chest.
Police soon recovered his skull and returning it to the cemetery officials, it was buried somewhere on the lot.
The Bible, damaged beyond repair was replaced with a plain stone slab, cemented down.
A porcelain likeness made from a photograph of Dorsa once filled an oval socket on her husband's vault front, but it too was broken and the pieces lost over time.
The vault of Mr. Dorsa is still there underneath the large pine tree.
A nearby grave is marked, Flora M. Dorsa, (1880-1902), she is the sister of Lon.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
On March 7, 2013, I, Beverly, talked to the wife of the current owner-operator of the Brophy Monument Co in Nevada, MO.
She said the monument company had always been in Nevada but that the granite had been quarried in Carthage and shipped by rail to the monument co. Her husband is a descendant of the Brophys that were operating the company at the time of Lon's death.
She said that she herself remembers going years ago while the granite Bible was still on the grave and looking into the tomb. She said you could see Mr Dorsa laying there with his hands crossed on his chest. That you could see his facial features and hair, that he seemed to be pretty much mummified. She said that after the hole had been cut in the top and the Bible placed over it that there had been a 2 inch thick piece of glass sealed over the whole top of the tomb, locking out any moisture.
She told me that after the glass was broken and Mr Dorsa's skull taken the rest of the body deteriorated
rapidly once moisture got to it.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
March 8, 2013 a marriage license for Lon and Neva was located on file at the Vernon Co, MO. courthouse in Nevada, MO.
They were united in holy matrimony February 12, 1895 at the home a 'minister of the gospel' S. P. Clayton, in Vernon Co, MO
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
3.9.2013, contacted by a distant cousin of Lon's, Taj Magruder, Ancestry.com, he confirmed from his records that Lon is in fact the son of Fred J and Cordelia 'Kelley' Dorsa.
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Lon was only twenty six years old when he was struck and killed by a bolt of lightening.
His wife was desolate at the loss of her young husband.
Advertisements placed by Mrs. Dorsa appear in old city directories, offering her services as a seamstress. It may have been by this means that she paid for the most unusual of monuments for her husband's grave.
She placed an order with the Brophy Monument Company of Carthage, Missouri for the largest block of limestone ever shipped to Nevada.
The block occupied a whole railroad flatcar and when it arrived at the station instead of being delivered, it was left sitting in the railroad yards, or 'spotted' on a siding.
A local stonecutter, Tom Berrigan, worked on the huge slab of limestone for thirty-two successive days. He worked away at the block right there on the flatcar with mallet and pointing chisel, hollowing it out until enough weight was removed for the huge stone to be moved from the railyard.
When the vault was finished it looked like a huge stone bathtub with a heavy, vaulted lid. It was, in principal, like some of the ancient tombs of the pharaohs of Egypt.
Mrs. Dorsa wasn't yet satisfied. She had a large hole cut into the lid of the vault and a huge stone Bible placed over the opening. The coffin inside was covered with a glass top. The Bible was equipped with a lock and when unlocked would pivot to the side so that Mrs. Dorsa was able to commune with 'my dear husband' as the inscription reads.
When eventually the remains of her husband started to surrender to time, her family had the monument firm remove the pivot and lock and cement the Bible in place, preventing the 'viewing' of the remains of Lon by his grieving widow.
On October 11, 1983 vandals struck. Prying off the stone Bible, they broke the glass underneath and took the skull of Lon Dorsa.
For a time Lon's remains lay open to view, his bony arms crossed over his chest.
Police soon recovered his skull and returning it to the cemetery officials, it was buried somewhere on the lot.
The Bible, damaged beyond repair was replaced with a plain stone slab, cemented down.
A porcelain likeness made from a photograph of Dorsa once filled an oval socket on her husband's vault front, but it too was broken and the pieces lost over time.
The vault of Mr. Dorsa is still there underneath the large pine tree.
A nearby grave is marked, Flora M. Dorsa, (1880-1902), she is the sister of Lon.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
On March 7, 2013, I, Beverly, talked to the wife of the current owner-operator of the Brophy Monument Co in Nevada, MO.
She said the monument company had always been in Nevada but that the granite had been quarried in Carthage and shipped by rail to the monument co. Her husband is a descendant of the Brophys that were operating the company at the time of Lon's death.
She said that she herself remembers going years ago while the granite Bible was still on the grave and looking into the tomb. She said you could see Mr Dorsa laying there with his hands crossed on his chest. That you could see his facial features and hair, that he seemed to be pretty much mummified. She said that after the hole had been cut in the top and the Bible placed over it that there had been a 2 inch thick piece of glass sealed over the whole top of the tomb, locking out any moisture.
She told me that after the glass was broken and Mr Dorsa's skull taken the rest of the body deteriorated
rapidly once moisture got to it.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
March 8, 2013 a marriage license for Lon and Neva was located on file at the Vernon Co, MO. courthouse in Nevada, MO.
They were united in holy matrimony February 12, 1895 at the home a 'minister of the gospel' S. P. Clayton, in Vernon Co, MO
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
3.9.2013, contacted by a distant cousin of Lon's, Taj Magruder, Ancestry.com, he confirmed from his records that Lon is in fact the son of Fred J and Cordelia 'Kelley' Dorsa.
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Lon was only twenty six years old when he was struck and killed by a bolt of lightening.
His wife was desolate at the loss of her young husband.
Advertisements placed by Mrs. Dorsa appear in old city directories, offering her services as a seamstress. It may have been by this means that she paid for the most unusual of monuments for her husband's grave.
She placed an order with the Brophy Monument Company of Carthage, Missouri for the largest block of limestone ever shipped to Nevada.
The block occupied a whole railroad flatcar and when it arrived at the station instead of being delivered, it was left sitting in the railroad yards, or 'spotted' on a siding.
A local stonecutter, Tom Berrigan, worked on the huge slab of limestone for thirty-two successive days. He worked away at the block right there on the flatcar with mallet and pointing chisel, hollowing it out until enough weight was removed for the huge stone to be moved from the railyard.
When the vault was finished it looked like a huge stone bathtub with a heavy, vaulted lid. It was, in principal, like some of the ancient tombs of the pharaohs of Egypt.
Mrs. Dorsa wasn't yet satisfied. She had a large hole cut into the lid of the vault and a huge stone Bible placed over the opening. The coffin inside was covered with a glass top. The Bible was equipped with a lock and when unlocked would pivot to the side so that Mrs. Dorsa was able to commune with 'my dear husband' as the inscription reads.
When eventually the remains of her husband started to surrender to time, her family had the monument firm remove the pivot and lock and cement the Bible in place, preventing the 'viewing' of the remains of Lon by his grieving widow.
On October 11, 1983 vandals struck. Prying off the stone Bible, they broke the glass underneath and took the skull of Lon Dorsa.
For a time Lon's remains lay open to view, his bony arms crossed over his chest.
Police soon recovered his skull and returning it to the cemetery officials, it was buried somewhere on the lot.
The Bible, damaged beyond repair was replaced with a plain stone slab, cemented down.
A porcelain likeness made from a photograph of Dorsa once filled an oval socket on her husband's vault front, but it too was broken and the pieces lost over time.
The vault of Mr. Dorsa is still there underneath the large pine tree.
A nearby grave is marked, Flora M. Dorsa, (1880-1902), she is the sister of Lon.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
On March 7, 2013, I, Beverly, talked to the wife of the current owner-operator of the Brophy Monument Co in Nevada, MO.
She said the monument company had always been in Nevada but that the granite had been quarried in Carthage and shipped by rail to the monument co. Her husband is a descendant of the Brophys that were operating the company at the time of Lon's death.
She said that she herself remembers going years ago while the granite Bible was still on the grave and looking into the tomb. She said you could see Mr Dorsa laying there with his hands crossed on his chest. That you could see his facial features and hair, that he seemed to be pretty much mummified. She said that after the hole had been cut in the top and the Bible placed over it that there had been a 2 inch thick piece of glass sealed over the whole top of the tomb, locking out any moisture.
She told me that after the glass was broken and Mr Dorsa's skull taken the rest of the body deteriorated
rapidly once moisture got to it.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
March 8, 2013 a marriage license for Lon and Neva was located on file at the Vernon Co, MO. courthouse in Nevada, MO.
They were united in holy matrimony February 12, 1895 at the home a 'minister of the gospel' S. P. Clayton, in Vernon Co, MO
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
3.9.2013, contacted by a distant cousin of Lon's, Taj Magruder, Ancestry.com, he confirmed from his records that Lon is in fact the son of Fred J and Cordelia 'Kelley' Dorsa.
♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐ♥ڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰڿ♥ॐڿڰڿ♥♥ڿڰ♥ڿ♥
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