As a budding genealogist, I am gaining appreciation all the time for the value of the information contained on a gravestone. Getting the right gravestone was the last tangible gift we could give our father, and we took that responsibility seriously. As the years have gone by, and I have visited "Dad" in all kids of weather, the cemetery has become a place of community for me and my family. Not a community we necessarily wanted to be part of, but one that we have come to cherish. More recently, I have visited the final resting places of loves ones in North Carolina, and found comfort there. Thanks for reading this....peace.

p.s. Sorry if I have duplicated the work of others. I am just starting out, and had a number of pictures of markers from our own search, and thought they might be useful. Feel free to let me know, and I can delete my entries.

As a budding genealogist, I am gaining appreciation all the time for the value of the information contained on a gravestone. Getting the right gravestone was the last tangible gift we could give our father, and we took that responsibility seriously. As the years have gone by, and I have visited "Dad" in all kids of weather, the cemetery has become a place of community for me and my family. Not a community we necessarily wanted to be part of, but one that we have come to cherish. More recently, I have visited the final resting places of loves ones in North Carolina, and found comfort there. Thanks for reading this....peace.

p.s. Sorry if I have duplicated the work of others. I am just starting out, and had a number of pictures of markers from our own search, and thought they might be useful. Feel free to let me know, and I can delete my entries.