Comments on: The Red Streaks on the White Mausoleum http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/the-red-streaks-on-the-white-mausoleum.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robert Thompson Sellars, Jr. http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/the-red-streaks-on-the-white-mausoleum.html#comment-1166896 Robert Thompson Sellars, Jr. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:17:38 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/?p=4738#comment-1166896 Jan. 1, 2013

I am a descendant of the Thompson family in Cleveland, Tenn. My great father was C. C. Thompson was an uncle of Nina Craigmiles. I am a geologist and have a comment to make about the red stained marble used in Nina’s mausoleum. I have seen the mausoleum a couple of times. Marble originates from limestone deposited in warm shallow water. Those red streaks may represent impurities deposited with the original rock – the limestone – that were oxidized when the sediment was exposed; hence the rusty color.

Just a suggestion.

]]> By: Janet McMurray http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/the-red-streaks-on-the-white-mausoleum.html#comment-48584 Janet McMurray Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:00:42 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/?p=4738#comment-48584 My husband is a descendant of Dr. Gideon Blackburn Thompson, father of Mrs. John (Myra Adelia Thompson)Craigmiles. Dr. Thompson (not Nina’s father John Craigmiles)was the one driving the buggy on that fateful day in Cleveland when the train killed his granddaughter, little Nina Craigmiles. She was riding with him as he was making his rounds as a doctor; it was raining and the horse rared up when hearing the train coming, and Nina was tragically thrown onto the tracks. Her parents and grandparents never fully recovered from the loss of Nina, the apple of her father’s eye and that of Cleveland. Consequently, her parents ordered the finest Italian marbel to build a mausoleum for her. We have been there several times, but don’t understand why myths say that it is “blood” staining the marble. Please let Little Nina rest in peace.

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