Stag Lane Primitives has another spool listing for the Bethia sampler, this time without paint. Plain wooden spools, same size, if you need one for 40 count Bethia they can be found here.
The final section of EF has had many errors and lots of frogging. I do like the change to a darker basket and 1837, and I am making more changes from very light to brown. The blue rather than pink house is looking good and I should finish this project in a day.
The 70% off framing sale at Michaels ended and although chosen, I couldn't get there to place the order. My foot is actually much better today and the pin sticking out of my toe will require this fricking boot for three more weeks.
My brother has several cemeteries near his neighborhood and are included in his daily walks. He noticed for some time the poor condition of the grounds in most of them. Right in the middle of the smallest, there was overgrowth and briars about 5 foot high and 6 foot wide. After a while, his curiosity got the best of him and he walked to that spot, only to see a stone through the leaves. The next walk he brought along clippers and gloves. Bags of debris and brush were taken to the woods. The next trip included a shovel for roots, followed by a rake, a bag of dirt, grass seed. Finally, the walks included a watering can and the grass has filled in. The person buried there is a fifteen year old girl that passed in 1937. 
A stone to the right is the same name, adorned with a small vase and flowers. Parents? Why was her grave ignored for so many years while all around her were groomed? Not only did family not tend to this overgrowth, but the maintenance company failed to do its job. Maybe there are no remaining family members nearby but someone is leaving flowers at what may be her parents'.
Her photo is on the stone, the frame was cracked and half was found in the brush. He glued together what he could and painted the chips. We know nothing about her or her family. Since both stones have the same photo feature (theirs is missing) I think they must be her parents which would mean her mother gave birth at age 34.
I'm glad his curiosity got the better of him because it resulted in a very good outcome.
Rest in peace Anna.
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16 comments:
Very compassionate of your brother to care for the grave of the fifteen year old girl. Charlotte in Va.
How thoughtful of your brother.
Shame on the maintenance comapny or whoever is supposed to do the clean up.
Marilyn
Marly, everyone deserves to be remembered. Maybe that overgrowth was from something that had been planted on her grave and it fell through the cracks. Your brother did a wonderful thing! Glad your healing.
Thank you for such a heart warming story. I'll pass it on.
Roann
What a riveting story. Bless your brother. Doesn't a situation like this make you wonder about their lives, what happened, why or why was her grave neglected? Sad.
What a good, good heart your brother has. Not only for the cats he takes care of, but doing good deeds such as this, that no one sees. God will surely bless him.
What a lovely thing for your brother to have done. Really, he didn't have to do it, but he chose to, and went out of his way to clean things up and restore the grace and dignity of the grave.
May the Lord bless your kind Brother for reviving the memorial to
this young lady. Anna? is probably also blessing him for his
compassion and care. Thank you for this heart-warming story,
Marly.
HI Marly,
I was so deeply touched when I read your story about your brother and his compassion and care for this your girl's grave!!! I wish we could all read these kinds of stories in the news!! The world would be a better place!!! Please tell him I so appreciate his kindness!!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!!
May God Bless Him for his unselfish act!!!
Hope you have a wonderful week!!
Heart Hugs~
Julie xo
Love your bothers's interest and persistance! Old cemetaries and gravestone stories are fascinating. we have a similar story on my father's side. one of my grandmother's brothers had died in 1925 at 10 years old, we found his grave and tombstone quite by accident- far away from any of the rest of the family. why? were all the plots near him 'taken' by the time the next family members passed? why had nobody ever mentioned him, or remembered him and where he was buried? sadly, we will never know the answers...
What a lovely thing your brother did. Abandoned graves are always sad, Anna is at least noticed by a few. Rest in peace .
Ahhhh....so the genes to that wonderful heart of yours were also bestowed up your brother.... What a kind thing for him to do....I hope someday there's a Marly's brother to pass by my grave. The inscription on Anna's tombstone is Bosnian.... (Very) roughly translated it says "Here rests in the peace of God the bride"??? My linguistics skills have sorely deteriorated and I never was conversant in Bosnian....so perhaps the "bride" thing really has some other meaning....but it makes me wonder if there wasn't something more behind the grave's neglect??? Well, just one more thing to keep me up at night LOL. Beautiful story this.... (Is your brother available??? ;-) ) ~Robin~
Thank you for telling us this story. What a good man he is.
Like Robyn I was curious about the meaning. Since those Eastern European languages can be similar I checked the Slovenian translation and came up with pretty much the same thing “God’s bride rests here in peace”. My take on it is that since she was only 15 when she passed she never got the chance to be given in marriage to a mortal man so she would now be a bride of God. Unfortunately there is no one left in the family to ask if I am on the right track.
Your brother did a very nice thing! My Dad used to love to visit old cemeteries when they visited in Maine when my sister lived up there. It did bother him to see so many graves of young children.
Indeed, Steve P. and Elizabeth W. were the parents of Anna (Annie) Berecek. They immigrated to the US; both Steve P., Elizabeth, their sons: Steve M., Joseph A., were all born in Yugoslavia, while Anna (Annie) and her younger brother, Frank T. were born in the US; Annie in Pennsylvania and Frank in Ohio. The father, Steve P. died in Pennsylvania 1953; Elizabeth died in Ohio 1969. The family is listed in the 1930 US Census in Pennsylvania, Elizabeth must have moved the Ohio to be closer to her sons; who, by the time she died, all lived in Ohio, and were probably all buried in Ohio also. The cause of death for Anna (Annie) is listed as: pyonephrosis of right kidney, possibly TB; she became ill sometime in March 1937. When I read your blog I became very interested in Anna (Annie) and decided to research her through Ancestry.com - your brother is a kind soul to do all he has done for Anna (Annie).
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