SHE WAS ONLY 9, TAKEN BY THE LION, The Circus Comes to Town. At Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Mena, Arkansas

PART 4 -- ON OUR ADVENTURES SOUTH (Missouri, Arkansas & Texas).
The truck with the polar bear and leopards turned over, and into the woods they went.

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THIS STORY:

From Life Magazine, November 1951 edition, page 58:
“9 year old tightrope walker performer Maria De Campa was killed by one of the circus lions. On the very next morning, one of the circus trucks overturned on the wet roads near Pencil Bluff and let loose two leopards, two black bears, four monkeys and a polar bear into the woods. The local sheriff promptly organized a posse of more than a hundred men armed with rifles and shotguns. Within a few hours, a group of 19 men found one leopard. They all blasted away, but a state trooper, who was using a submachine gun, got credit for the kill.”

A terrible day in Mena Arkansas, for the people...and the circus animals.

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The Angel face you see is the Haserot, named “The Angel of Death Victorious". The stoic angel is seated on the marble gravestone of canning entrepreneur Francis Haserot and his family. Holding an extinguished torch upside-down, it represents a symbol of life extinguished. Wings are outstretched and the gaze is straight ahead.
IN THE END, DEATH ALWAYS WINS. LEST THE FACES NOT BE FORGOTTEN...

This channel is focused on casually walking and viewing a handful of the thousands of forgotten names and faces at various cemeteries near and afar. Seeing their faces up close. And when able, telling the stories behind their names.

Most graves are unknown and lost to history.
Some are famous.
And some infamous....
....and some with tragic endings.

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