FANNIE
Dau. of
J. H. & C. J.
CAUDLE
Born Mar. 3, 1877.
DIED
Aug. 18, 1895.
Rest Fannie, rest in quiet
sleep
While friends in sorrow
o'er thee weep
Fannie, was buried in her wedding dress on the day that she
was to have been married. She was the daughter of Joseph Harrison and
Celia Jane Petty Caudle. Delma Turnbow Freeman reported in her book
"Fannie Caudle was said to be a girl of unusual beauty. She was 18 and
engaged to be married to a young man by the name of John Nichols. While
the family members worked on her wedding dress with its dozens of yards
of lace and ruffles, Fannie told some of those close to her that she
felt the dress was being prepared for her shroud. Thinking of this as
prewedding day tension, her remarks were taken lightly, but a few days
later she was stricken by a fatal illness, and lived only a short time
afterward."
Iris flags grow around Fannie's headstone, as around many
Caudle family headstones in Texas.
