My mother and aunt used to go to the cemetery in Ashton, Illinois, to place flowers on Memorial Day. Before them, my grandparents did this. Now my brother and his wife do this.
In a series of Job-like disasters, David George's wife, three of his four adult children, and two of his grandchildren preceded him in death. Willy died of diphtheria in 1877; Martha George Sanders and her baby daughter Grace died of childbirth complications in 1888; Susan Reed George died in 1898; Ira George died in 1907 of blood poisoning from a farm accident; and Mary's son Oliver died at birth in 1908. Only Mary lived to an old age, just like her father.
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I can understand the story telling but not the picture of the gravestone really?
Your loss.
I guess she's never seen Find a grave.
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