John Fa(u)lkner grave
The "Falkner" side of the headstone of John Fa(u)lkner, brother of novelist William Faulkner. John, who was himself a writer, had adopted his older brothers habit of including a "u" in the spelling of his name, as had John's oldest son, Jimmy, but John's other son, Murry "Chooky" Falkner, continued to spell it without the "u." When Jimmy and Chooky's father died, they resolved the spelling of John's last name in a rather unique way: by spelling it one way on one side of the stone, the other way on the reverse, and with the letter "u" in parentheses on the flat stone atop the grave.
John Fa(u)lkner grave
The "Falkner" side of the headstone of John Fa(u)lkner, brother of novelist William Faulkner. John, who was himself a writer, had adopted his older brothers habit of including a "u" in the spelling of his name, as had John's oldest son, Jimmy, but John's other son, Murry "Chooky" Falkner, continued to spell it without the "u." When Jimmy and Chooky's father died, they resolved the spelling of John's last name in a rather unique way: by spelling it one way on one side of the stone, the other way on the reverse, and with the letter "u" in parentheses on the flat stone atop the grave.