Pine Grove Cemetery

An overview of the Pine Grove Cemetery.

Another perspective of the Pine Grove Cemetery.

Flag in the Pine Grove Cemetery.

Arie O. Bruce, Joe W. Bruce, and Robert W. Bruce. The sun was awful and causing shadows, so I had to take it upside down and flip it. Sorry!

Lillian F. Brashear.

Iva Jane Baker.

If you scroll to the next post on Fall River Cemetery, I took some pictures of the surrounding area in case you were interested. It's really pretty in that area of California. I also took some other Bruce headstones and will upload them to the Find A Grave website in case they were relations also. (It may be a few days, but it will get done.)

Fall River Cemetery

Picture of the Fall River Cemetery. The flags are all half-staff because a local soldier just got killed in Iraq. Sad for the community.

Another overview picture of the cemetery.

Wallace and Temperence Heryford. Ruby Heryford is also buried in this plot, but there is no information or headstone for her.

This is a picture of the back side of the Salisbury monument.

Alexander I. Salisbury and Martha A. Salisbury.

Bertha E. Lansing Cox. I thought perhaps this Cox was related to your Leland Cox and saw that there hadn't been a picture of the headstone uploaded as of yet.

Leland M. Cox.

There is not a headstone for Carrie Thompson, but the museum had cemetery records and the record stated that Clyde E. and Carrie Thompson were interred in the Fall River Cemetery in section AG, plots 66 and 68, but that they did not have headstones.

The following pictures are taken of the Pit River Gorge just between Fall River and Burney, CA. I thought you might like to see some of the surrounding area where they lived.

Exeter Cemetery

I figured since I had a blog called Cemeteries and Headstones, I should post this one. This is my grandson that was born in July and only lived 2 1/2 days. We were very sad to see him go and it was so unexpected. It isn't necessarily a headstone I wanted to 'collect' but thought I would anyway. We love him.

Me and Dad went to Exeter to see if Justin's headstone was placed this week. Here it is! We cleaned out all the letters and the extra cement from the sides. I guess we missed that little piece of grass on the right side! Dad says we can take another picture next time we go there. It looks really nice. Although, I will have to admit, it is a little unsettling to see Jennifer's name there and still makes me sad that it is the only place we can visit Justin! We are going to bring some silk flowers for the fancy vase and hope no one takes the vase. Also, I bought some extra pinwheels when I finally found them, so I will bring another one to put with the flowers. We think we can leave the flowers and the pinwheel now that the headstone is in place. We have been watching the other grave sites in the cemetery and they have the same flowers on them every time we go, even though the sign says they take them every Monday.

Visalia Public Cemetery

Kermit Elton Howard was the only one with a headstone. I went back in the office after I had walked the section looking for Margie Howard to ask for a plot number for her. They told me she was in the same plot, no headstone to reflect that. She was kind enough to give me the vital statistics they had on file for her. Margie Howard: DOB 26 Sep 1918, DOD 13 Jul 1988. I showed the office assistant the picture I took of Kermit Howard's headstone and she said that it was a veteran's headstone and many times they did not put one in for the wife. Maybe they are donated or something? Hope this works for you.

Here is the picture of Andrei Dmitri Kleist for you. Sorry about the water on the left side. They had just finished watering that section. Hopefully it won't be too distracting for you. He is in Section F-3, Tier 19, Plot 22.

If you want the full size pictures, just double click on the picture and then when you get the full size picture loaded, right click on it and save it to your file. You may do what you like with them, they are yours now.

Eshom Valley Cemetery

This cemetery is way up the hills by Badger, CA. We had a lovely drive up to find it. We had to stop and ask someone to make sure we were going to the right place since there really isn't a record of it anywhere--no gps coordinates or address. I am sending in the coordinates to the Find A Grave Site. We did find it and it was absolutely a beautiful place. The cemetery overlooks what we figure is Eshom Valley with a small pond/lake on the floor of the valley. Your B.G. Dunn is right on the row closest to the overlook of the valley. (We thought a nice place!)

We forgot to bring water with us and the water had not been turned on yet. We think maybe if the headstone was wet it would be clearer and easier to read. Maybe you can use your photo editing software to sharpen the engraving.

This is a 'distance' picture for you. You can see that he is on the last row in the older section of the cemetery. There are two small sections to the cemetery. We were so sad when we didn't find him at first and then my husband just happened to look down a small slope and see a group of more graves. Besides, the area we were searching were too recent! We both breathed a sigh of relief!

I took this picture so that you could see the perspective and some of the cemetery. If you count over from the right on the row closest to the top of the picture, your ancestor is the 4th one from the right in the sunlight.

This is a picture from where his grave is and the overlook into the valley.

We took this picture of the road sign that points to the cemetery. It's not quite as interesting as the wooden sign.

Here is a picture of the valley and the road that leads to the cemetery. The cemetery is more than a mile down that road and you can't see the cemetery from the entrance. Hope you enjoy these pics. If you click on them you will get the full size pictures of them. You have my permission to use them as you wish.

All-Time Favorites: Amon and Sally Pratt

Here's a picture of my favorite headstones of all time. Most of my life I researched for the parents of Emily Jeanette Pratt--Amon and Sally. And here they are! To be able to visit this cemetery and take this picture was really an unbelievable experience! I never thought I would be able to do this. Kent and I had a wonderful trip to multiple cemeteries, courthouses and libraries. It is going to take me all summer to upload all the information! And to think we lived 2 hours from here for 6 years while Kent got his Ph.D.! Who knew! It would be 10 years later that I finally found Emily's parents!

Visalia Cemetery: Chivers - Griswold

 

 

 

If you click on the picture you will get the full size picture I took. I also uploaded them to the Find A Grave site. I did not find William Bentley Chivers. They looked for him in their database and could not find him. He is most likely buried somewhere else or was cremated and immured elsewhere. The Visalia Times Delta has an obituary for him on May 5th, 1999 that may give the information. Also, there were flowers on all of those graves, so I am assuming there is family in the area that may have more information.