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Liles of the valley bloom across the bottom edge of the tombstone for Irvin Curtis Batson, who died in 1905 at the age of only nine or ten. Douglas Keister, in Stories in Stone, states that lily of the valley symbolize innocence and purity, as well as renewal, since it is one of the earliest flowers to bloom in spring.
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A Grave Concern 