Saturday, July 2, 2011

Tennis Funkhouser

The short life of Tennis Funkhouser, a conflict of dates.  Little Tennis Funkhouser shares a gravestone with his parents Reed and Rachel. The monument is grey granite and it is deeply carved, which puts it as suspect as being the original stone for Tennis.  Tennis dies in 1893, but his sister who dies in 1891 has a period marble tombstone.  It appears that the names on the stone were carved at the same time.  Reed dieing in 1939. Rachel in 1919 and Tennis in 1893 make one believe that the stone was set after Reed's death or maybe Rachel's.  My comment is that we have found another problem in that P.T. Lambert in his  book on the Jacob Turpin Family places the birth of Tennis 12 Aug 1892 and his death 3 Sep 1903; so maybe this is why we have not been able to find the death certificate for Tennis in 1893.  New hunt.  Yeah

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