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It was a busy day. We visited the cemeteries to put flowers. Mt. Moriah was first. It is located in a not so good neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia. It is in a horrible state of neglect. My grandparents tombstone was in a field of ragweed that was almost as tall as I am. I put a bunch of tools in the car and used the manual hedge shears to cut down the ragweed. The stone is located near the road so we had to snip and peer into the weeds. Don found it so I snipped away and cleared a small space to put my bunch of silk flowers. Mosquitoes were biting so we didn't stay long.
Next stop was the churchyard at St. James Episcopal Church. It is an old Swedes Church where my ancestors are buried. We couldn't find any of them. The old tombstones were not legible. I'll have to make an appointment with the Sexton to see if their graves can be located.
Next stop was Mt. Zion. We placed flowers on all my families graves. My grandparents, and grandmoms parents, brother, and sisters. Then we walked over to place some on grandpop's parents and sister. We went over to the older section of the cemetery where the veterans were having a service. They were honoring Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War Vets. It is where the site of the Darby Methodist Meeting House was. It had been cleared up and restored. We found several of our ancestors graves. One, Moses Lincoln, was a Revolutionary War Veteran. We met Mrs Wardell who loves history and found the old section of the cemetery and organized volunteers to clean it up. Many trees had to be removed. I met some other descendants of my Lincoln ancestors. Mrs. Wardell had a couple of her books with her so I purchased one. It had much history of the early settlers. It was so nice to meet Mrs Wardell. She did a wonderful job restoring the cemetery and writing about the early history of the area.
We went home to Don's to have some lunch and cool off. The temp. was in the 90's today. i took Danny to the WaWa to get some sandwiches. Erin ordered hers and printed out her ticket then she came out to hold Danny while I ordered for Don and me. We watched a movie while we ate and afterward, we went to the cemetery where Ted and my parents are buried.
We watched the end of the Phillies game as we cooled off again at Don's then we hit the road and headed home.
News from the Vorlon Wife.
Posted by tedkarol at May 28, 2012 9:56 PM