Major Tourist Attraction

My hometown cemetery has an interesting grave marker. According to local lore, a nineteenth century man named William T. Mullens was a notorious alcoholic. His wife warned him that if he died because of his drinking, she would erect a tombstone in the shape of a whiskey bottle as a warning to others. Mullens died drinking so his wife kept her promise. She erected two tombstones in the shape of whiskey bottles. There is a large bottle as the headstone, and a smaller bottle at the foot of the grave. Both bottles have removable stone corks. Ripley's Believe It Or Not magazine supposedly ran an article about the unusual gravestones sometime in the 1930's. Until recently our local phone book directory listed the Whiskey Bottle Tombstone as a "major tourist attraction." Around February 1982 or '83 the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society named the tombstone as its "historical attraction of the month." Some tourist attraction website even lists a telephone number for the gravesite. Uh, huh.

Only in a small southern town!