Time goes by so quickly...personal issues have prevented me from doing any cemetery research for quite some time. When I was finally able to continue, I forgot to update this blog. It is not my intention to be so neglectful. All I can say is that I will try harder in the future.
And so I will begin anew by admitting to a gravestone no-no that I actually did today. I saw the fragmented pieces of a young child's marker, all but one piece separated by a few inches. I carefully picked the three smaller pieces up and moved them to fit near the larger two. Yes, I risked breaking the pieces even further, but I felt in this case it had to be done. Chunks of the stone had slid down the hill. Some had shattered; thankfully, the most important parts of the stone were still in tact. I was careful to not move the pieces from the area where the child's name was found. The name was next to a relative who I assume was the mother of the child. As I bunched some grass up below the stones to help prevent them from sliding again, I imagined that the mother would have felt very sad to know that her young daughter's gravestone has almost been lost to time.
Here is the gravestone of young Violet M. Shouse (1910-1923)
And so I will begin anew by admitting to a gravestone no-no that I actually did today. I saw the fragmented pieces of a young child's marker, all but one piece separated by a few inches. I carefully picked the three smaller pieces up and moved them to fit near the larger two. Yes, I risked breaking the pieces even further, but I felt in this case it had to be done. Chunks of the stone had slid down the hill. Some had shattered; thankfully, the most important parts of the stone were still in tact. I was careful to not move the pieces from the area where the child's name was found. The name was next to a relative who I assume was the mother of the child. As I bunched some grass up below the stones to help prevent them from sliding again, I imagined that the mother would have felt very sad to know that her young daughter's gravestone has almost been lost to time.
Here is the gravestone of young Violet M. Shouse (1910-1923)
Photography will remember what
mother nature will eventually destroy.
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