Todd graves

[Susan Higginbotham]

I am one of those oddballs who loves old cemeteries. I could happily spend my entire day wandering through them, inspecting the monuments, and trying to imagine the lives and times of the people who are buried there.

And I agree...I dislike the flat headstones. I much prefer the standing ones.

ETA: I am rather surprised that Emilie was not buried with her husband at the Helm Family Cemetery in Elizabethtown. She was widowed quite young...aged only about 30 years...and she lived until she was 94 without ever remarrying.

My husband and I had one of our first "dates" in a cemetery in Richmond. (I was looking for the grave of Alan Campbell, Dorothy Parker's husband.) Our children are resigned to the fact that if we're traveling and if there's an old cemetery along the way, we're going to stop at it.