Day: September 26, 2007

Crankypantsing

Drip Drip Drip

Shelly

It rained and rained and rained last night, thankfully right after I’d gotten back from my evening Unionville run. At one point, it was so windy and rainy that when I looked outside, I couldn’t tell what direction the rain was going. There were just swirls and clouds of thick grey everywhere. Thankfully, it settled down quickly.

I waited until the rain slacked off, then went downstairs to do a load of laundry. When I got to the laundry room, there was glass on the floor. The globe from the ceiling fan had shattered. There was also water everywhere, because the back wall, where the dryers are vented, was leaking. All over the electric meters! Drip drip drip + electricity = bad!

In other news, my last post got stuck in la-la land, and the RSS feed is not picking it up. Hrmf!

Cemeteries, Ladybusiness, Photography

More Cemetery Blogging

Shelly

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Come Ye Blessed

Grace Rutherford
Died Mar. 19, 1901
Aged 24Y 11M 4D

Elmo Son of
J. R. & G. Rutherford
Died Jul. 26, 1901
Aged 4M 13D

I wend back to the Mount Gilead cemetery earlier this week, intending to take another look at what appeared to be a veteran’s headstone. I got sidetracked looking at infants’ and women’s graves, though. This one caught my eye. It wasn’t until I got home and did the math that I realized that Grace died not in childbirth, as I’d assumed, but six days afterward. Her son, Elmo, lived for four and a half months. I assume Grace’s death was related to giving birth. I wonder what killed her son? Disease or malnutrition?

Something else that caught my attention is the lay-out of the graves in the cemetery. Most of them are in orderly rows, but in the older section, there are doubled rows, where the headstones are either stacked one in front of the other, or staggered slightly. There are also half rows of children’s and infants’ graves, which I thought was clever. The first row of graves is right up against the dry stone wall, with at least one headstone facing the wall. I have no idea whose grave it is, because there isn’t enough space between the stone and the wall to see the inscription.

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Thompson
Silas E.
1866-1949
Mary A.
1871-

Where the heck is Mary?!

The rest of my Mount Gilead photos are here. I did a little Googling, and it appears that the church was founded by a member of the Skirvin family, which would explain the plethora of Skirvins buried there. Supposedly they are linked in some way to Hoagy Carmichael.