I recently read an essay called "How To Live Your Dash" By Linda Ellis. This refers to the dash on a headstone, between the birth and death dates. In this blog, I hope to bring to light the meaning behind the dash for my ancestors.

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

List of Graves Found

When I wrote my last post this morning, I must have been half asleep, because I missed 2 relatives, bringing the total to 32.   Here's the whole list of graves I tend in PA, and their relationship to me.  See if you can tell me who I missed this morning:

Canaan Corners Cemetery:
Clayton & Daisy Paynter (parents)
Joseph & Carrie Paynter (paternal grandparents)
Violet Paynter (aunt)
Leroy Doney (first cousin)
Abel & Phoebe Gray (great-great grandparents)
Ashfield Gray (great grandfather)

St Tikhons:
Mathew& Anna Orinick (maternal grandparents)
Julia & Jack Reger (aunt & uncle)
Catherine Zedar (aunt)
Mary Orinick (aunt)
Margaret Orinick (aunt)
Helen Orinick (aunt)

East Canaan Cemetery:
Ted & Shirley Orinick (uncle & aunt)

South Canaan Protestant Cemetery:
Jonas & Jane Seeley (great-great grandparents)

Aldenville Baptist Cemetery
Ellen (Oliver Paynter) Gummoe & John Gummoe (great-grandmother & her 2nd husband)

Union Dale Cemetery:
John Zedar (uncle & godfather)
Aldrude & Jacob Shager (great aunt & grandfather's 3rd wife, with her 1st husband, who would be my great uncle)
Nettie & Levi Shager (great aunt & uncle

Indian Orchard:
William & Elizabeth Oliver (great-great grandparents)
Elizabeth & Adolphus Henshaw (great aunt & uncle)

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