While I was at the Historical Society last weekend I came across the information on where the original owners of the house we now call our B&B are buried.
Nathaniel and Mary Holbrook
Now most people probably wouldn’t find that excited but I did. Next step was for my daughter Katie & I to take a trip to the Fairview Cemetery in Madison.
Good news – we had the Section #, Row # and headstone #
Bad news – there wasn’t a map of the cemetery
Once we drove around the cemetery & realized there wasn’t a map anywhere to be found – we just took a guess at the sections and parked. Really how hard could it be to find the headstone.
Good news – we actually guessed the right section & parked fairly close to the headstone.
Bad news – it still took us an hour to find it.
Luckily Katie had her cellphone with her and she looked up the cemetery list on the internet. Long story short – we finally found it. We did walk past it several times but didn’t notice the name.
I took the picture to the right to show you just how close we parked to the headstone. That’s Katie standing next to the row we needed to find – and yes the tall headstone to the right is the one we were so desperately looking for.
This is really interesting. I love stuff like this!
Oh the cemetery searches that I have been through. I enjoyed your post as it made me think about the times I have spent in the hunt. I am sure this summer I will be back out there.