∼Family Names:

McLarey, Cervelli, Rugani, Blake, Kelley, Allen, McLaughlin, Wallace

Sinnott, Maple, DesPlaines, Peyre Ferry, Marden, Carr, Leighton, Black

Please ask for management transfer of your close relative's memorial. All my photos are shareable for genealogical research. I have acquired management of memorials from retired or fallen gravers. I'm fairly new to FG, but I've always been interested in genealogy. The elders are gone and the children grown, so I have some time now and can't believe all that is available online for research. It was so different 25 years ago when I was feeling discouraged and no time to research in person or online. I actively work in family genealogy and welcome any suggested edits to memorials I manage. Many ancestors have been laid to rest in far away locations. GPS coordinates are appreciated to guide us when making the journey to pay our respects to our departed, especially when not familiar with an area. When researching locally, I will add GPS to help anyone seeking their family member's final resting place. God Bless

Dear Ancestor:

Your tombstone stands among the rest, neglected and alone -

The name and date are chiseled out on polished marbled 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, in 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 some day I would find this spot and come to visit you.

by Walter Butler Palmer (1868-1932) written in 1906.