My Inner Sanctum: 2023:CEMETERIES: SPECIAL STONES AND CLEAN UPS

gravestones anywhere

January 8

stopped by Union cemetery using the back entrance

This impressive statue caught my eye after seeing Dick Hunter's stone and Paul Galup's

Eileen Kraus

Paul Galop

Dick Hunter a firefighter

January 14

stopped by Seaside on Saturday since the weather is "iffy" at best. They have marked the large pine with a green tie I suppose for removal and the fence with bright pink I guess for repair.

January

recent clean up reveals hidden stone for William Nelson

January 8

whimsy in Union Cemetery

January 17

more clean up. I thought they had marked this tree as a take down. but no they cleaned it up and I am glad.

February

Seaside clean up continued

In searching for Beatrice Kelley again finding others and more clean up of stumps. Also finding people with markers who were supposed to be "scattered".

February 5

Chrystie plot stump removal

Bill Eldridge found in Seaside even though they said ashes scattered later

J. Burton Davies uncovered after major clean up

I will see if I can find out why he died so young

Miriam Stratton uncovered

Oliver Dubis stone needs attention again. I had used a plastic pizza cutter to clear away sod years ago and it is overgrown again.

Marguerite and Fran Preston. I was curious last year if he was still alive. I found him in Nationwide Gravesite locator as dying at age 102 in December 2021 in Seaside. I immediately checked her grave and found nothing then in 2023 after asking the commision where he was buried I found him when looking into something else. He was friendly and a great butcher in Bearse's market. She died tragically very young.

another neglected veteran

Kenneth Devine

Philip Cavanaugh

Emeline Dill

Fishback Greenya- was overgrown for years

Welch one name still hidden

Welch was very much hidden under a cedar

Welch

Metcalf

Mocarsky

Matheson how things age over the years

Near Knapton's plot in background more cleanup

February 19

still in Seaside but different matter-

So, when in Seaside searching for specific gravestones I saw this near a grave newly cleared of overgrowth.. Made me wonder if trees other than maples have edible sap. well yes. link in comments

You won't fond me foraging unless armageddon hits, but still good to know.

edible sap

February 23

well this was a convoluted puzzle to solve.

Ring

Mabelle-Irving-Jane

no dates.

Mabelle was on the website. took me a while to figure out Irving with probate and familysearch.org. He was lawyer. I googled hoping to find an obituary telling me who Jane was. It comes up with his son Gardner from his first marriage to Miriam of which he had Gretchen a daughter as well.

Have not found her. I have spent enough time on these 3!

Ring plot marker

Shirley and Vera Eldridge after major cleanup

Shirley and Vera

Emily Ann Gillen intentional or litter?

EMILY GILLEN OBITUARY

AMHERST- Emily Ann Gillen, 44, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 12, 2012, surrounded by loving family and friends.

Born in Cambridge, Emily moved with her family to Amherst in 1969.

She is survived by her daughter, Beatrice (Bebe) Ballou; her parents, Bill and Connie Gillen; and her two brothers, Pat Gillen and wife Cyndy of Belchertown and their sons Vincent, Dylan, and Vaughn and Sam Gillen and wife Libby of Chicago, Ill. and their daughter Gigi and son Theo. She also leaves her sweet dog Luna and countless friends and acquaintances who have been touched by her beauty, wisdom, and grace.

Emily attended Amherst public schools, but graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1985. She attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in Anthropology in 1989. She later returned to UMass, receiving her MA in Anthropology in 2000 and her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics in 2002.

From 2001 to 2003, she was Language Director in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UMass. From 2003 she was an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Emily was a sensitive fieldworker and tireless educator, particularly at the intersection of technology and language learning.

Emily's academic profile was only one aspect of a woman who was, above all, a citizen of the world. She travelled widely, including a long stay in Finland in 1982 through the Rotary Exchange Program, a sojourn to Australia, and many professional visits across Spain and Mexico. Most recently, she took an interest in the healing arts, meditation and yoga and was training to be certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. It was within these endeavors that Emily found inner peace, enriched wisdom and strength. During her final months at home in Amherst these were the gifts she gave to her family and friends. The warmth and love that emanated from Emily was the light that pulled all her loved ones through.

Emily was a talented and enthusiastic dancer, having attended Harvard's Summer Dance Program in 1983 and never missing an opportunity to dance and embrace a melody. She was a grounded, practical-minded person whose sense of humor was contagious and whose lack of pretention opened many hearts. Her love of the sea was cultivated at her family's home in Chatham; her love of nature took her into the wild throughout her life. Like many of the flowers to be found at her family's Amherst farm, she was a strong and spirited source of beauty to all who knew her, perennially abloom in her all too shortened life.

Most of all, Emily was a loving and devoted mother to her daughter Bebe, who was a source of joy and wonder to her. For the past 11 years, Bebe's well-being has been front and center to all her choices. Their bond is her special gift to Bebe.

A memorial celebration will be held on Aug. 25 at 4 p.m. at Amherst College's Alumni House, 76 Churchill St., Amherst. A reception with food, music, and remembrance will follow immediately at Sunset Farm, 20 Brigham Lane, Amherst. A fund has been created for Bebe's education. Donations may be made to Bright Directions, P.O. Box 82623, Lincoln, NE 68501. Please specify the beneficiary's name in full as "Beatrice E. Ballou". Donations may also be made to Cancer Connection, 41 Locust Street, Northampton, MA 01060.

Published by Daily Hampshire Gazette on Aug. 18, 2012.

Emily in Seaside
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February 6

then this puzzle. A stone uncovered after being buried deep. It has a view of the Brogan stone but 3 times when I went looking for it again. THEN I found it a few weeks later actually uncovered- that way I did not see it LOL For Cotton Coulson. I saw "Coulson" on thee first photo after rotating the photo.