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Really! In both senses. Have another somewhat inscrutable grave marker — for one Hanora Graves, no less — that perhaps the literati here might be able to decipher:

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The top thing I believe says ‘Mother’ and the name in the register is “Hanora A Graves”. I couldn’t quite make out the middle name there. The photo makes it look like ‘ANELINE’; it’s the third letter that gets me. I ran over it with my finger and it seemed more like a G or a C than an E — ANG/CLINE. ANGLINE ANCLINE. At any rate, I’m sure about the AN and the LINE. I suspect it really is ‘Angline’; I did a search and found quite a number of ‘Angline’s on death records for the late 1800s, and no ‘Aneline’s or ‘Ancline’s.

The line right after the name is also fuzzy. It looks like “Born Oct. .. .”. 16? And the died date is Aug 7 1905. The log says she was 35 years old so that would make it around 1870.

There’s also an inscription at the bottom which I couldn’t make out at all.

Interestingly right behind this one is a larger standing monument to a ‘Graves’ that is so overgrown with lichen or mold that I couldn’t make out any text, if there was any. There might not be; it appears that after buying 6 plots, the owner only used the one for Hanora, and then sold off the rest. The staff think he probably bought the plots for his family, but then his wife died and, after burying her there, he perhaps remarried and was buried himself somewhere else. I’m also guessing the large standing monument is probably a family plot marker without any names on it. So, poor Hanora is left there all by herself. But no longer forgotten.

Here’s another problematic one:

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I can’t quite make out the name of the place her was born. It looks like ‘Slamarad’ but I have been unable to find anything close to that online.