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Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished,
marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died
and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely
not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who
would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And
come to visit you.
Author Unknown
These are all from my visits to cemeteries in North and South Dakota.
Locations of the graves will be noted as follows:
HN-Havana cemetery north of town
HC-Havana Catholic
V-Veblen, South Dakota
B-Britton, South Dakota
R-Rutland, ND
G-St. Martins Catholic in Geneseo, ND
C-Cayuga, ND
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 Parrow- HC)
 Weber- HC)
 Weber -HC)
 Johnson)
 Goltz- HN)
 Goltz- HN)
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 Weber-(Mrs. Peter) -C)
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 Decker- HC)
 Goltz -HN)
 Goltz -HN)
 McBride-G)
