Buddie 1934-1948
Grave Marker, Dunn Cemetery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Sometimes, the full names, dates, etc. were placed on a central family monument, then simple head or foot stones with initials or just the first names marked the actual graves. I need to go back over to the cemetery and take another look, but I’m pretty sure that there weren’t any family monuments nearby that looked connected to this one. The other side of the stone bears an inscription for Erma Defur, who died in 1902, just after she turned a year old.
So who the heck was Buddie, then? A child? A beloved family dog? Was he a brother of someone in the Defur family?
And who was Erma Defur? There is another monument with her name and dates on it, in the Stewartsville Cemetery. I wonder which grave she’s actually buried in.
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