Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — Sleeps Under His “Awful Epitaph.” [ARTICLE]

Sleeps Under His “Awful Epitaph.”

At Vineland, N. J., the other day, was buried Jeremiah Hacker, poet, author and noted infidel. Hacker, who was 94 years old, became an infidel in his boyhood, and throughout his life taught infidel ideas, firm in the belief that he was doing good. He spent a fortune In Inculcating his ideas. When his wife died, six years ago, Mr. Hacker erected two tombstones on his lot at Siloarn Cemetery. On his wife’s was Inscribed underneath the usual legend, the question; “Where is God?” On his own tombstone was carved the following; “The Angry, Wrathful Bible; God Is a Myth.” These tombstones, so close to monuments piously Inscribed,caused much comment, and many persons visited the graveyard to see those awful tombstones. Lot owners appealed to the trustees to have the offensive slabs .removed, hut the trustees became divided over the question, and the tombstones are still standing.