So, in addition to finding the lost (and unlost) cemeteries of Douglas, we are also in the process of documenting each stone in one particular cemetery, the Douglas Center Cemetery. It is one of the largest (I would guess third largest) and likely the oldest. The process has been going on for a few years now, and over the winter my mother lost track of which headstones had been done and which have yet to be documented. Hence the immense pile of pictures and binders to be gone through.
Alas, and that is only one of 21, possibly 24 cemeteries in the town.
In the picture is the Baker Cemetery, but we don't even know if there are any Baker family members buried in this cemetery, so far all we've found are Steele family members. Well, hence the necessity of cemetery documentation.
How did your family end up documenting cemetaries?
ReplyDeleteWe'll, there are a lot of dead people in my family...
ReplyDeleteI guess we volunteered to because the cemetery is so close to the house and we saw it as something that needed to be done. And graves fascinate us, and we have a lot of family buried in the cemetery nearest the house.