You have my permission to use cemetery photos that I have taken and uploaded to FindAGrave, with the source information recorded or attached. All I ask is that you "pay it forward". If there is a personal family photo of mine that you would like to copy, please add the source and all photo details so that the correct information remains with the photo. Too many times I have seen a person's photo become misidentified on public trees. If there is a memorial I have created in your relative/ancestor's honor and you would like the management of it, please ask and I will happily transfer it over to you. If the memorial is an ancestor of mine I may reserve the right to retain the management. Added memorials are from sources found on ancestrydotcom, in newspapers and cemetery records found through my own family's research. Thank you, Christina

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"Remember this.... In truth a person dies twice, once when we each stop breathing, and a second time when somebody mentions their name for the last time."
- Wreaths Across America

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Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder if you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you

Author Unknown

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"If you wonder about your 'roots' you have two parents, four grandparents eight great-grandparents and 16 great-great-grandparents, and by the time you go back 10 generations 300 years or so- you had 1,024 people from whom you are directly descended." - Mady Castro