Joyce O
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For those who have requested photos - I will be unable to take any photos until spring. We have lake effect snow here and everything is buried under 18 inches of snow now. That will be closer to 3 feet by spring. The cemeteries are closed until late in the spring. Burials don't take place and people aren't admitted.
I've always liked walking around cemeteries, and looking at the stones. They give me a very peaceful feeling. We'd been visiting some of the very old cemeteries in this area anyway, and taking photographs. This project will give us a reason to do so.
I grew up in Nebraska, moved to Minnesota in 1994 and to the Michigan U.P. (Keweenaw Peninsula) in 2008. There is a lot of history to be discovered here.
We visited the cemetery at Eagle River, MI in September 2010. It has been there since 1843 and is still in use today, so is a very interesting mixture. The number of babies and small children in older cemeteries is always sad. People lost baby after baby back in the early to mid-1800s (and I'm sure before). They didn't have the care and medications that we have today. Think of how heartbreaking that had to be. But, in this area of huge copper mines, back at that time people lost young adult children too. We saw so many gravestones for 18, 19, and20 year old men (and a little older) who had died in mine accidents. Not speculation, it said so right there on the stones. So sad.
This was not an area where many lived to a ripe old age in those days. Most were in their 20s, 30s, a few in their 40s. It was very unusual to find a stone for someone over 50.
I've always liked walking around cemeteries, and looking at the stones. They give me a very peaceful feeling. We'd been visiting some of the very old cemeteries in this area anyway, and taking photographs. This project will give us a reason to do so.
I grew up in Nebraska, moved to Minnesota in 1994 and to the Michigan U.P. (Keweenaw Peninsula) in 2008. There is a lot of history to be discovered here.
We visited the cemetery at Eagle River, MI in September 2010. It has been there since 1843 and is still in use today, so is a very interesting mixture. The number of babies and small children in older cemeteries is always sad. People lost baby after baby back in the early to mid-1800s (and I'm sure before). They didn't have the care and medications that we have today. Think of how heartbreaking that had to be. But, in this area of huge copper mines, back at that time people lost young adult children too. We saw so many gravestones for 18, 19, and20 year old men (and a little older) who had died in mine accidents. Not speculation, it said so right there on the stones. So sad.
This was not an area where many lived to a ripe old age in those days. Most were in their 20s, 30s, a few in their 40s. It was very unusual to find a stone for someone over 50.
For those who have requested photos - I will be unable to take any photos until spring. We have lake effect snow here and everything is buried under 18 inches of snow now. That will be closer to 3 feet by spring. The cemeteries are closed until late in the spring. Burials don't take place and people aren't admitted.
I've always liked walking around cemeteries, and looking at the stones. They give me a very peaceful feeling. We'd been visiting some of the very old cemeteries in this area anyway, and taking photographs. This project will give us a reason to do so.
I grew up in Nebraska, moved to Minnesota in 1994 and to the Michigan U.P. (Keweenaw Peninsula) in 2008. There is a lot of history to be discovered here.
We visited the cemetery at Eagle River, MI in September 2010. It has been there since 1843 and is still in use today, so is a very interesting mixture. The number of babies and small children in older cemeteries is always sad. People lost baby after baby back in the early to mid-1800s (and I'm sure before). They didn't have the care and medications that we have today. Think of how heartbreaking that had to be. But, in this area of huge copper mines, back at that time people lost young adult children too. We saw so many gravestones for 18, 19, and20 year old men (and a little older) who had died in mine accidents. Not speculation, it said so right there on the stones. So sad.
This was not an area where many lived to a ripe old age in those days. Most were in their 20s, 30s, a few in their 40s. It was very unusual to find a stone for someone over 50.
I've always liked walking around cemeteries, and looking at the stones. They give me a very peaceful feeling. We'd been visiting some of the very old cemeteries in this area anyway, and taking photographs. This project will give us a reason to do so.
I grew up in Nebraska, moved to Minnesota in 1994 and to the Michigan U.P. (Keweenaw Peninsula) in 2008. There is a lot of history to be discovered here.
We visited the cemetery at Eagle River, MI in September 2010. It has been there since 1843 and is still in use today, so is a very interesting mixture. The number of babies and small children in older cemeteries is always sad. People lost baby after baby back in the early to mid-1800s (and I'm sure before). They didn't have the care and medications that we have today. Think of how heartbreaking that had to be. But, in this area of huge copper mines, back at that time people lost young adult children too. We saw so many gravestones for 18, 19, and20 year old men (and a little older) who had died in mine accidents. Not speculation, it said so right there on the stones. So sad.
This was not an area where many lived to a ripe old age in those days. Most were in their 20s, 30s, a few in their 40s. It was very unusual to find a stone for someone over 50.
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