Richmond Cemetery

2012

The Richmond cemetery is old and there are a lot of people buried here.  However there is nothing that makes it stand out as a particularly interesting cemetery.  It has some nice monuments but the part that really makes this interesting to us is that many people from our family are buried here.  The picture above my boy is with my grandfather from my mother's side.  You cannot see it but behind the boy is his great-grandma's stone.  She is still with us and I am thrilled that he has had the honor of knowing his great-grandmother and is going to remember "Grammy" as he grows old.

2012

 This is a wider view of the family's plot.  Buried here is my grandpa who passed in 1993, his and 'Grammy's' son who passed as a result of too much anesthesia during a surgery when he was just 6 years old, my great-grandparents, and buried at the foot of grandpa's plot is the remains of my second-cousin-once-removed (?Grandpa's sister's child?) who was killed as a result of a drunk driving accident while she was in her 20's. 

2012

And so during our our quest me and the boy continue to explore the various mausoleums and this was nice with little marble benches around the perimeter but it still did not hold a candle to the coolness of the Centennial Cemetery.