Things were different then?

Last time I visited Ashland Cemetery, I came across this headstone. See if you are struck by the same thing I was:

Yes, from this it looks as if her first name is irrelevant and it’s enough that she was the wife of W.E., but here’s the front of the same headstone:

From that, at least we know her name was Jessie, and she was “A True & Loving W.”

But, back to the other side of the headstone. When I saw it, I read:

Wife of W.E.
VanVactor
Jan. 4, 1889
Mar. 25, 1893

At first I thought, “Hmm, so Jessie was 4 years old when she died, but during that short time she found the time to get married. I wonder if she also bore children of her own?”

Then I thought, “Maybe the dates are the years of her marriage.”

But then I looked more closely at the year of the first date:

So, what I first took to be an ’8′ is really a ’6′ and the date actually reads Jan. 4, 1869.

Duh. Observant much? I’m guessing you read the correct date the first time so the question I have for you is this:

Does my mistake show:

1. a trick of the eye thanks to the slight indentation on the left side of the 6 and the discoloration of the stone?
2. encroaching senility?
3. that I need new glasses?