Cemetery Event #2

"Our Children"

Today was our second day of cleaning at the cemetery. You can see the work I did on one grave above. I don't know what that orange-brown discoloration is across the lower face of the grave, but I've noticed that a lot of graves have it.

During the clean-up a small group worked on uncovering a cemetery mystery. About fifty years ago, someone used a couple of dozen footstones to make a giant cross across the open lawn of the cemetery where the church used to be. We don't know why this was done, or whether the footstones were actually removed from their proper places in the course of this action or whether they had already been misplaced. But the footstones have now been exposed and are in the process of being matched to their rightful headstones.