Thomasville, North Carolina

To the Ocean, White with Foam:  Maybe this couple, while they were both still alive, envisioned heaven as the Outer Banks. They married young and made it last. He was 19 and she was 17. In 1983, when they tied the knot, the median age of first marriage for men was 25.4 years and for women 22.8 years. Today, it is 28.9 years for men and 26.9 for women. The demographics displayed on this headstone are becoming rarer in America and in America's cemeteries. Fair Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery. [2013]