Greetings from Boston!

It's my first time visiting the city that I will call home for the next few years. Tomorrow I have orientation at school, Simmons College. Yesterday and today I wondered around the city. Most of the today was spend in NEHGS. I spent some time going through a county history for Scioto Co., Ohio and the probate indexes for Worcester Co., Mass. Since tomorrow they have extended hours, I plan on going back after orientation to look at the actual probate books (well, the microfilms of them). 

This is the first grave stone I've seen that uses the double date. In the Grannay Burial Ground.

The difference between the history in Los Angeles and Boston is dramatic. In LA there's a few buildings that date to the 18th century, all of which are adobe. Here in Boston, I love the old stone and brick buildings among the modern steel and glass ones. I think I took 100 pictures of just the architecture.

Trinity Church

Tombstone Tuesday - A Sad Story

I was visiting a friend this weekend in Lemoore, California. She has a cemetery a few blocks from her apartment, so of course we visited it. Lemoore Cemetery is very well kept. One particular stone caught our attention.

We wanted to know what happened to this family, so we went to the Hanford Library, which has the local newspapers on microfilm.

A sad story that makes you hold dear your loved ones.

Sources
    Lemoore Cemetery (1441 N. Lemoore Ave., Lemoore, Calif.), grave marker, Camara, photographed by author, 9 April 2010.
    Ruth Gomes, "Four Killed in Collision," The Hanford (California)Sentinel, 26 July 1966, p. 1.
    "Funeral: Paula Camara, Joseph Camara, Jefferey Camara, James Camara," The Hanford (California) Sentinel, 28 July 1966.

Tombstone Tuesday - Old Woodlawn Cemetery

Old Woodlawn Cemetery

Rutter - Wilson family plot

Sweet Township, Pipestone County, Minnesota

BABY WILSON











WILSON
JAMES D.|LEONA
1882 1957|1878 1959







MYLA
RUTTER
1911-1942

PHILIP E.
RUTTER
1910-1938
[ornament reads: "U.S. AMERICAN LEGION"]

FLORA R.
LANDRY
1857-1926

 

 

    Old Woodlawn Cemetery (Sweet Township, Pipestone County, Minnesota; north of Pipestone, west of quarries), Rutter-Wilson-Landry, block B, lot 151, spaces 1-5; photo by author, 7 June 2009.

    Old Woodlawn Cemetery (Sweet Township, Pipestone County, Minnesota), lot card, block B, lot 151.

Tombstone Tuesday - Old Woodlawn Cemetery

Old Woodlawn Cemetery

McLean family plot

Sweet Township, Pipestone County, Minnesota

 

 

Old Woodlawn Cemetery (Sweet Township, Pipetstone County, Minnesota; north of Pipestone, west of quarries), Alice & John A. McLean, block K, lot 38, spaces 4 & 5; photo by author, 7 June 2009.

Old Woodlawn Cemetery (Sweet Township, Pipestone County, Minnesota), lot card, block K, lot 39.

Tombstone Tuesday - Hopkinton Cemetery

Hopkinton Cemetery, South Fork Township, Delaware County, Iowa

[unknown image-possibly a lamb]
ARTHUR
FAY
RUTTER
Feb. 20, 1873
AGED
2 yrs. & 2dys.












EMERSON
RUTTER
DIED
APR. 21, 1891
AGED
88Ys. 5Ms.
25 DAYS.
Gone but not forgotten












ARTHUR P.
FAY
& TWO INFANTS
CHILDREN OF
E.S. & J.A.
RUTTER
JUBAL E.
& MARY E.
CHILDREN OF
M. & E.
RUTTER.

[lamb]
STEPHEN H.
Son of
H.E. & M.E.
RUTTER.
DIED
Aug. 25, 1873
AGED
11 months.

Hopkinton Cemetery (section 18, South Fork Township, Delaware County, Iowa; east of town on 3rd St NE (Hwy 38)), 3 stones: Arthur Fay Rutter, Emerson Rutter & others, Stephen H. Rutter; photograph by author, 7 June 2009.