Update: Cemetery Project
We are still taking donations for our cemetery project. Here are some before and after pictures of what these donations are doing. Why not adopt a stone and help preserve our county’s history? Contact Donna Burton, Nancy King or Marilyn Wagner (lawrenclore@gmail.com) for more information.
At Gaddy Wright:
Inscription can now be read
Died: June 6, 1864
42 Years 11 M 19 D’s
Farwell my dear companion
Farewell for a while
We will soon meet again
If kind providence smiles
Inscription can now be read
Died: Aug. 18 1887
42 y 9 m 2 D’s
They steered their course in the same quiet shore
Not parted long and now
To part no more
At Ridgley cemetery, the US government- issued tombstone of Harrison J Ridgley, a Civil War soldier, was almost unreadable. After being cleaned, now look at it.
This tombstone of Richard Ridgley was broken and laying on the ground. It has now been repaired and reset and is awaiting further cleaning.
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