Lafayette Police are investigating the appearance of a grave marker in the small parking area behind The Independent Weekly and adjacent businesses on Jefferson Street downtown. Within the shadow of the Vermilion Street parking tower, resting on a metal pipe near a dumpster is a granite headstone bearing the engraving, “INFANT SON - HOWARD AND ELIZABETH HEWITT.”
A quick Google search shows that the marker comes from the Lafayette Protestant Cemetery, Part 5, located in the 400 block of Pinhook Road. How the heavy block of stone arrived at its present location remains a mystery. Records indicate three other Hewitts are buried in the cemetery, including a Howard P. Hewitt (1900-1982), and nearly 10 Hewitts show up in Lafayette on whitepages.com. But Howard and Elizabeth Hewitt are not listed.
Put on your deerstalker hats, INDsiders, and crack this caper.
hey ..your parking lot or your building might be haunted...call paranormal group to investigate it...why don't you guys (independent dude's)drop some cash and invest in security camera's ..
... written by Private J , June 11, 2009 - 07:04 pm
http://freepages.history.roots...its09.html DEATH OF AN INFANT. ______ Infant Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hew- itt Died Last Night. Harry Howard Hewitt, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hewitt, died last night at the family home, 495 Second avenue. The funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon with interment in the Oakland cemetery. - April 6, 1909, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 3, col. 5-6.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jwheat/obits/mainobitindex.html Hewitt, Mrs. Elizabeth (1922 Reg) Hewitt, Harry Howard (1909)
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jwheat/obits/regdeaths22.html Certificate No. 50 Name of Deceased: Mrs. Elizabeth HEWITT Place of Death/Local Address: County Farm, Hutchins, Tex. Gender: Female Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Name of Father: Don't Know Maiden name of Mother: Don't Know Date of Death: 27 Feb 1922 Cause of Death: Senility and General debility Name/Address of Physician: A. W. Carnes, Hutchins, Tex. Place of Burial: Oakland Cem. Date of Burial: 28 Feb 1922 Name/Address of Undertaker: Chas. F. Weiland Und. Co., Dallas
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Lafayette Police are investigating the appearance of a grave marker in the small parking area behind The Independent Weekly and adjacent businesses on Jefferson Street downtown. Within the shadow of the Vermilion Street parking tower, resting on a metal pipe near a dumpster is a granite headstone bearing the engraving, “INFANT SON - HOWARD AND ELIZABETH HEWITT.” 
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