I live in Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
I've been researching my own families' histories since I was in my twenties and realized that my older relatives were passing away, taking their stories with them.
I was unemployed for a few months in 2009, so I had time to photograph and transcribe the gravestones on the East Side of the Bristol Cemetery at Bristol, Day County, South Dakota, USA. I have many ancestors buried in this well-kept cemetery and have enjoyed many visits there. My dad, Allen Esche, assisted with this project.
In 2015, I photographed and transcribed the stones on the Catholic/West side of Bristol Cemetery, which I later learned is also known as Saint Anthony's Catholic Cemetery. Those photos and names were also uploaded to FAG.
Please feel free to email me with information you would like added to your ancestors' memorials.
Thank you,
Cheryl

Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and bears a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew,
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.
- Walter Butler Palmer

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I live in Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
I've been researching my own families' histories since I was in my twenties and realized that my older relatives were passing away, taking their stories with them.
I was unemployed for a few months in 2009, so I had time to photograph and transcribe the gravestones on the East Side of the Bristol Cemetery at Bristol, Day County, South Dakota, USA. I have many ancestors buried in this well-kept cemetery and have enjoyed many visits there. My dad, Allen Esche, assisted with this project.
In 2015, I photographed and transcribed the stones on the Catholic/West side of Bristol Cemetery, which I later learned is also known as Saint Anthony's Catholic Cemetery. Those photos and names were also uploaded to FAG.
Please feel free to email me with information you would like added to your ancestors' memorials.
Thank you,
Cheryl

Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and bears a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew,
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.
- Walter Butler Palmer

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How to write an obituary
https://www.featherstitch.com/advice/communication/how-write-obituary/5643941002/