Extremes

I also went to Splinter Ridge Cemetery yesterday. It’s still in use, so there were some kind of amazing memorials.

Wind chimes and piles of stuffed animals around a baby’s grave and a large memorial for a young woman who died a few years ago. That, too, was decorated with gifts, including a ceramic piggy bank.

The graveyard was dominated by one huge monument. Very fancy, in the shape of an arch with an urn on top. It also featured the clasped hands that typically symbolize marriage in graves of that era.

In contrast, there were numerous graves with no permanent markers. Owen County is poor, and a lot of families there just don’t have money for a headstone.