Towards the left-hand side of the Hillcrest Memorial Park graveyard on Versailles Road in Lexington, you will find the grave of this young man. We were wandering around looking for interesting gravestones and this one caught our eye with its royal name. Then, upon closer inspection, we realized someone has defaced King's photo on the grave, gouging out part of his face. It took us a few moments to realize that "CSA" meant 'Confederate States of America", and then we saw the Rebel flags on his other stone.

The inscription on the main stone baffled us most of all:

Here lies a boy dead to the world
He loved once and was loved once
But now he is dead

The more I read it and reread it, the more amazed I am that someone actually put this bizarre sentiment on a loved one's tombstone. It almost reads as if it's been poorly translated out of another language. And it's also surprising that the grave desecration hasn't been repaired by anyone. Even removing the photo plate altogether would be better than leaving the defaced one up. From the looks of it, it's been damaged for some time.

But the drama doesn't stop there. Near Sir King's grave, we find the grave of one Leslie D. "Dougie Do-Right" King, 1941-1997. Dougie's stone has an odd inscription similar in style, syntax and theme to Sir Robert E. Lee King's, and makes reference to someone named Jo Ann Kearns. For unknown reasons, someone has tried really, really hard to obliterate Jo Ann Kearns' name. What is up with these people??

Note: as with all reports of unusual and interesting graves on this site, we intend to show our respect to these people by featuring them here. Our sometimes lighthearted tone should not, not, not be construed as not taking grave desecration seriously. We have zero tolerance for cemetery vandalism, and even though Mr.King is a total stranger, if we ever found out who damaged his headstone, we'd hurt them real bad in seven places.