Miscellaneous Cemetery News Items
from Audubon Co. Newspapers
- Francis Edwards, of Audubon township, this last week placed a monument at the head of the graves of his children in the Edwards cemetery, a few miles east of town. (From Column 2)
- Mr. Arthur Artis was in town from his Audubon township home, last Saturday, and took home a marble monument to place at the graves of his loved dead who sleeps in the Bowman Chapel cemetery. (From Column 2)
- Anton Thils has placed a monument in the Exira Catholic Cemetery to mark the graves of his two daughters, who lie buried there. (From Column 3)
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- While at the Exira cemetery a few days ago we noticed the following new monuments and other work that has lately been erected up there through the agency of Mr. V. B. Hellyer: Mrs. Fred Anderson has had a neat and costly monument erected to mark the grave of her departed husband. George Hunt and Lester Gransberry have had headstones placed at their babies graves. Mrs. Maggie Fackler had four corner posts erected of marble with the name of Fackler placed on the posts where sleeps her boy, and Mrs. Andrew Allen has had her husband's inscription cut on her monument. George Morey, who lives north of town, had a monument erected to mark the spot where his child lies buried. It is expected that other work will be erected up there before Decoration Day. (From Column 6)
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- A week from Sunday is memorial day for the I. O. O. F. lodge, and the members are expecting to go out to Cameron Center to decorate the grave of their only brother, Wm. McMullen. (From Column 3)
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- George Moray and wife were down at Exira, one day this week, beautifying the lot where sleep their dead, and superintending the erection of a monument to mark the spot. (From Column 1)
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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, April, 2018.
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