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I was not expecting this!
From the Friends of Evergreen, at the big fundraising show yesterday 
Ut-oh
There appears to be no rhyme or reason to the plot numbering at Evergreen behind the mausoleum. One row of 20 visible markers (I suspect there were at least five more buried too deep for me to locate) has five graves designated Plot #483-5, four designated 481-5, five at 479-5, and five at 475-5. Okay, my next guess would be that these are family plots, each intended to hold five graves? Well, no. I have 20 different surnames and a quick check of the burial records shows THIRTEEN graves in plot #483-5 alone (eleven different surnames there). Although I think FILIPIANA OLLSON (d. 6/27/1933) is probably also PHILLIPENA OLLSON (d. 6/27/1933) so maybe there’s really only TWELVE completely unrelated graves in Plot # 483-5.
Okie dokie then. This is going to be a bigger project than I thought.
I think tomorrow I will throw up a page just listing names, for Google to find, with my contact information for anyone who might be looking for those graves. It’s going to take ages and ages to compile all the detailed documentation I plan to do (my son / computer geek / gravehunting partner has narrowed it down to an EIGHT PAGE form for each marker) so in the meantime perhaps folks looking for their family histories will Google me up and throw a couple dollars in the Re-Green Evergreen kitty.
Onward!
Someone knows
Someone was out and about very early Thursday morning in a sparsely populated area near the base of the San Jacinto mountain, just as the Santa Anas kicked up, to set a fire. Just hours later, four firefighters were dead.
Someone knows who it was. Please do the right thing.
What becomes of you, my love, the day they finally stretch you out?
Lest we forget ….
I really haven’t much comment, except to point out that this is not a late fall afternoon in the woods, a fragrant carpet of pine needles. This is dry brush and baked dirt in the California sun. Click here for a slideshow of today’s photos, then please click here to help save this cemetery.
With all the sad irony, digging through hardened dirt and weeds to reveal markers of those “never forgotten”, the most ironic was that I actually had to go back to my car to get a pebble to place on the Braunschweiger monument for the photo. I’m not Jewish, but that’s Jewish tradition, so I keep pebbles in my console. I should only need them in the National Cemetery, where the graves are tended so well.
Not even rocks grow here, at Evergreen.
regards
Re-green the Evergreen Cemetery
Just some details about the big car show to benefit the historic Evergreen Cemetery restoration and future up-keep:
Hosted by: The Old Farts Racing Team.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
1:00 – 6:00 p.m. @ Pine Center (Palm & Pine St in Riverside)
Registration to be done on the day of the show
$10.00 fee includes dash plaque
Sounds by D.J. Bob
Huge raffle and 50/50 drawing
Spectator admission is free
All proceeds to benefit the cemetery restoration!
Sponsors are needed, for $25.00 you can sponsor a trophy and you get to pick the car to win it. Please contact Bill Wasson via the Old Farts website, or you can email me for his phone number.
Great fun WILL be had by all!
I need a nap
Pretty decent turn-out today for the car show, considering there was also a HUGE event over at the VA Hospital. We were delighted to hand over a check for $712.00 to the Old Farts “Re-Green Evergreen Cemetery” fund and are looking forward to the big annual Cruise on October 29.
Here’s a few pictures from today’s festivities.
Now I’m going to bed.
