The stone reads: Erected By Patrick Carey of Baskin hill in memory of his beloved son Patrick Carey who died March 19th 1879 aged 30 years |
Another Kettle ancestor |
Nature has wiped away all signs of script on this cross |
The stone is at the center of this bushy area with ivy completely covering it. None of the script remains. |
Headstone of the Philips Family, 1862 |
Hmmm, maybe we shouldn't plant trees next to our stones after all. I have seen this many times also. I guess folks aren't thinking about it at the time. The very top photo, do you suppose the tree was planted sometime around the time the stone was put there...off to the side? I wonder, how old that tree really is.
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