Weingarten (174/365)

TIME: 7:31 PM
PLACE: Weingarten
SUBJECT: Dad and wine

A relative had a 70th birthday party at the Weingarten this evening.

Dad and I met up there to attend the celebration.

The Weingarten is located on a old farm property.

There is a silo….

…and the family cemetery on the grounds.
The Spitznass-Wilderman Cemetery.

This is an old stone – it’s been pretty worn away by time. 
According to FindAGrave, this marker commemorates George Wilderman, born 22 Apr 1788 and who died on 27 Jun 1866.  His wife, Nancy, nee Hill, who was born in 17 Nov 1788, died just a couple of months later on 15 Aug 1866

Cynthia A.
Dau. of
Wm. & Mary Wilderman
Born
Dec. 6, 1832
Died
May 26, 1872

Memorial Day (149/366)

“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”

Benjamin Harrison (American, 23rd President of the United States [1889–1893]. 1833–1901)

TIME:  7:13 PM
PLACE:  Walnut Hill Cemetery
SUBJECT:  Penny on tombstone

There are many reasons for leaving a penny on a tombstone…one of them is as a token of thanks.  There were many pennies on the tombstones of soldiers that surrounded the Civil War monument in the cemetery.
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Today would have been Mom’s 70th birthday.  I also visited her grave this evening - I forgot the forks though.

Cemetery Flowers (082/366)

“And weren't there special cemetery flowers, That, once grief sets to growing, grief may rest: The flowers will go on with grief awhile, And no one seem neglecting or neglected? A prudent grief will not despise such aids.”

Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Place for a Third."

TIME:  7:21 PM
PLACE:  Cemetery
SUBJECT:  Flowers on Mom’s headstone

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I wasn’t able to make it out to the cemetery yesterday.  This evening, I made sure nothing stopped me from going there.

Weeping Willow (321/365)

“Adieu, adieu, kind friends, adieu, adieu, adieu, / I can no longer stay with you, stay with you. / I'll hang my harp on a weeping willow-tree. / And may the world go well with thee.”

“There Is A Tavern In The Town,” F. J. Adams, 1891.

TIME:  10:44 AM
PLACE:  St. Paul Cemetery
SUBJECT:  Grave marker detail

After I had my hair colored this morning, I drove out to a cemetery to find some of the final resting places of HH’s ancestors.  I located a few of them, took photos for my files and then meandered around the cemetery to look at the older stones.  This detail was on a stone for Johanne C Lehmann, GEB [born] d. 29 Sept. 1802, GEST [died] d. 6 Marz 1878.  The willow symbolizes mourning and earthly sorrow.  There was other writing on the stone, but I couldn’t make it out.  If I play with it in Photoshop enough, I might be able to though.  A quick search on Ancestry found that her husband, Samuel Lehmann, who is buried next to her, was one of the first elders of the newly established St. Paul United Church of Christ in 1859.  Interesting.
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Here is the full photo of the tombstone: