Cemetery Shots: 2013

I am absolutely addicted to finding those hard to find headstones, fulfilling photo requests from Find A Grave, losing weight while walking mile after mile, etc. I am just having a blast exploring the cemeteries in the area. Some say its weird. I do not care. Here are more pics :)

Butternut Ridge Cemetery in North Olmsted.

The next few pictures capture one of my favorite "headstones". It's a broken tree monument for the Rice family. The Rices had five children. Their longest living child only lived about 7 years. It's a beautiful monument.

Random shots.....

There are quite a few hidden graves. However, this is a well kept cemetery. I met a man there once named Samuel Porter (I think I have that name right). Very nice elderly man who researched the entire cemetery. He unearthed a few buried headstones as well. I believe the cemetery would not be in such great shape if not for this man. I haven't seen him in two years. I hope he is well.

The next few pics have a weird story behind them. Apparently Ms. Stearns had a premature baby girl, named Emily Helen. Emily died a few days after she was born. Months later, it is said Sabra dug up her baby, and re-dressed her in a different dress, with her husband Elroy and her stepdaughter in tow.