William Shakespeare Caldwell

A man given Shakespeare's name by parents with ambition, Caldwell is remembered here on a monument built by committee — angels, drapery, a bronze plaque, the whole nineteenth-century vocabulary of importance, with the Breckinridge name joined beside the Caldwell one. Two families, one stone, one negotiated eternity.

Whatever the ledgers said he did with his money, the angels kneeling around his name were paid for in full. The monument is the last receipt.

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