Cemetery trip

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Cemetery trip

Legg inn av clifto » 14 mar 2007 17:11:41

I did my first cemetery trip yesterday. The snow is mostly melted and one
can see the grave markers again. :)

Naturally, the sections I was interested in didn't have detail maps
available. I walked around a bit and stumbled onto ground markers that
I deciphered into block numbers and lot numbers, and that helped me
find my first target. Then I went to another section that appears
never to have had these markers, and the next section I went to had
a lot of them pulled out (by vandals?) and laying atop the ground.

A lot of the old markers had photographs on them. Of the ones I looked
at, most were of living persons, but one appeared to be a death picture;
a lady with short hair in a white gown in bed, eyes closed. Is that
common? (she died 1907)

Took along a few requests from findagrave.com, found some and e-mailed
the pix to the requestors.

I'll be going back at least once more, in case anyone needs anything
from Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside IL.

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Martians drive SUVs! <http://oregonmag.com/MarsWarm307.html>

Graeme Wall

Re: Cemetery trip

Legg inn av Graeme Wall » 14 mar 2007 17:31:49

In message <tejlc4-jof.ln1@remote.clifto.com>
clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote:

I did my first cemetery trip yesterday. The snow is mostly melted and one
can see the grave markers again. :)

Naturally, the sections I was interested in didn't have detail maps
available. I walked around a bit and stumbled onto ground markers that
I deciphered into block numbers and lot numbers, and that helped me
find my first target. Then I went to another section that appears
never to have had these markers, and the next section I went to had
a lot of them pulled out (by vandals?) and laying atop the ground.

A lot of the old markers had photographs on them. Of the ones I looked
at, most were of living persons, but one appeared to be a death picture;
a lady with short hair in a white gown in bed, eyes closed. Is that
common? (she died 1907)

Took along a few requests from findagrave.com, found some and e-mailed
the pix to the requestors.

I'll be going back at least once more, in case anyone needs anything
from Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside IL.


If you find any Kenricks there I'd be interested.

--
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website:
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>

clifto

Re: Cemetery trip

Legg inn av clifto » 14 mar 2007 23:34:16

Graeme Wall wrote:
If you find any Kenricks there I'd be interested.

I e-mailed your article to myself so I'll be able to find it when I go.

--
Martians drive SUVs! <http://oregonmag.com/MarsWarm307.html>

Graeme Wall

Re: Cemetery trip

Legg inn av Graeme Wall » 15 mar 2007 09:12:23

In message <8s9mc4-u8p.ln1@remote.clifto.com>
clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
If you find any Kenricks there I'd be interested.

I e-mailed your article to myself so I'll be able to find it when I go.


Thanks

--
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website:
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>

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