This is what section 3 looks like from the road.
It was overcast today, and I don't know if it was that, or that many of the stones are worn down and covered with lichen, but it was hard to read the names on the stones. I was glad to find it. I wish I had brought my brush to clean it off with.
Hesper Newell's ashes are there as well, but she does not have a marker. I think Emma is my great grandmother. I wonder who Hesper is. All I know is that she died 2/6/1953 and her middle name is Julia.
While I was there I asked about preneed plans. It seems like it makes sense to get to enjoy your grave before you die. Of course they are expensive. It costs $1,500 for a grave plot at Bayview and a really awesome grave marker could run you as much as $20,000.
I think Hesper was born in 1881.
ReplyDeleteIt turns out I am not related to Emma, and Hesper is her daughter. I looked up Emma's obituary and Jere's, who I thought was her husband, and he was married to another Emily Newell, who sometimes went by Emma.
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