For eld , every clip we so much as touch a toe out of state of matter , I ’ve put cemeteries on our travel travel guidebook . From garden - corresponding expanses to overgrown boot hills , whether they ’re the last resting places of the well - known but not that important or the important but not that well - known , I have a go at it them all . After realizing that there are a lot of taphophiles ( memorial park and/or tombstone partizan ) out there , I ’m ultimately putting my archive of interesting tombstone to good use .
Finding someone ’s grave ? That ’s for amateurs . It ’s normally pretty easy , even if the stone does n’t belong to someone who happen to be renowned back when he or she was breathing . If it ’s a bad necropolis , the chances are pretty in effect that the agency will have plot records that will aid with your hunt .
Now , come up the object thatcausedsomeone ’s death — that ’s typically a bit more thought-provoking . But the source of Jasper Newton Daniel ’s death is not only easy to find , it ’s actually still on showing at the distillery that bears his name .
Photo by Stacy Conradt
Sometime in 1906 or so , Jack Daniel headed into the office early one morning to TCB before anyone else got there . The trouble ? They always opened the secure for him . After try the combination several unsuccessful times , Daniel farm frustrated and attempt to learn the unyielding brand a lesson by kick it . His toe yielded alternatively . The broken toe got infected , gangrene set in , and finally , the famous purveyor of whisky lose his left leg . On October 9 , 1911 , the sphacelus took the sleep of him as well .
The jape on the distillery enlistment is that Jack could have lived well beyond his 62 years had he only dipped his toe into his own whiskey to sterilize the wound . He was buried at the Lynchburg City Cemetery in Lynchburg , TN , and the stone is easy to fleck , not only due to its sizing , but also thanks to the set of iron chairs that permit visitor to sit down and enjoy Jack ’s namesake libation with him . But they ’ll have to buy it somewhere else — Lynchburg is in a dry county .
Primary photo courtesy ofFind a Grave . See all the entries in our Grave Sightings serieshere .
