Memorial Gardens

I made the ritual trip trough the country today. Seems like every week I have requests for Sunbury, Galena, and Trenton; or at least some combination of these. Today it was Sunbury and Trenton. I also have frequent requests for Stark and Fancher, though not as often as the others. I made it out to these today also, and Africa, which I rarely have requests for.

Whispering Waters

Creek

Cremains Vaults

Walking Path

Memorial Rocks

Fountain and Bridge

 I had several requests for cemeteries I had never been to, one being Kingwood Memorial Gardens. From the main road, the cemetery didn't look like much; just a bunch of flat markers with little flower stands attached. I knew I would never find the marker I was looking for so I stopped in the office to ask. First of all it took forever for the office workers to stop talking to each other and even notice I was there! At one point I thought of just leaving and taking my chances looking for the marker myself. Once I got helped I learned that I would not have been able to find it anyway, as it was in the mausoleum. The guy from the office went with me and on the way drove through a newer part of the cemetery. I commented on how beautiful it was and he immediately went into his sales speech. The section was not like any cemetery I had ever been in. The Whispering Waters section is very landscaped with rock gardens, a pond and a walking path. Created specifically for those that wanted to be cremated, yet still wanted a nice place for their family to visit,  there are memorial benches and markers scattered throughout the area. It was so serene. It put ideas in my mind of a new letterbox to plant. I also think if I ever decide to be cremated this is where I would want to be "planted".

New Friends

Another first time visit was to Northlawn Memorial Gardens. Not as pretty as Kingwood, but the staff was much more helpful and friendly. I was even given a map to the gardens and was able to find the plaque rather quickly. While there I saw a cute little family of Canadian Geese. The little babies were trotting along behind their parents and when the came to a grave marker they would kindly walk around it like they knew it was something special.


The last cemetery I was going to visit today was in Gahanna. I didn't have the transcription for it, but I knew it was available through the library. I hoped the New Albany library had the information I needed, since I was not near the Westerville library. I was wrong. So I drove to the Gahanna library, surely they would have the information about their own town. Nope! It seems their libraries are branches of the Columbus Metropolitan library and all of the local historical information is housed at the main building downtown. I'm glad Westerville is not a branch and I hope they don't change that anytime soon. They have the whole set of Franklin County cemetery transcriptions, so I can almost always find what I need.    

Sorry but I don't have stats for today's trip. (I'm writing this many days later and just don't remember how many pictures I took.)