The Angels of Lockhart

Based on a True Story

Why did these babies die? One hundred years ago, almost every family knew the sorrow of losing a child. Sickness was a constant threat, and Death a frequent visitor. But to bury seven babies? There has got to be more than, “They just died.”

Thomas L. Wiley tells the moving story of his wife’s step-great-grandmother and the seven angels that she buried in the Lockhart Cemetery, ten miles north of Meridian. When great-grandfather Stephen Parker’s first wife dies, he is lef...