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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Gibson boys in Martin Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan

C. K. Gibson, 21st Michigan Infantry

Archibald K. Gibson, 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Civil War veterans buried in Martin Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan

C. K. Gibson, 21st Michigan Infantry

Archibald K. Gibson, 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics

Lorenzo D. Lamphere, 3rd Michigan Infantry

George Prescott, 3rd Michigan Infantry

Orin Prescott, 3rd Michigan Infantry


Anderson Wride, 3rd Michigan Infantry

Josiah B. Ferris, 1st Michigan Light Artillery

Monday, August 18, 2014

Vanden Berg, Van Halsema and Quackenbush in Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids

Tunis Vanden Berg

Susan Bernice and aunt Helen at Tuni's grave site

sisters Helen and Bernice paying their respects to absent loved ones 

Jim and Willemina Quackenbush

Mark Van Halsema

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Swan Point, on a Saturday morning in June

new arrival

truly a garden cemetery

"you are the wind beneath my wings"

"there is no death only a change in worlds"

the unique -- and somewhat out-of-place mound tomb of the Mason family