2003—Back to work, et cetera |
By July, the debilitating darkness of displacement-depression (thanks, Algernon) had receded enough to permit some attention to family-history duties. First task: follow up on Grandpa Isaac Decker’s
gravestone project.
On the 10th of July (the day before our 39th wedding anniversary), I rode Hepzibah to the Salt Lake City Cemetery and chased down the resting places of a couple dozen kinfolk. |
Incorporated most of that day’s photos into the Section named
SaltLakeCemetery, which I formatted so that it could be printed into a ten-stop tour-guide brochure.
It took a couple more years of spreading the word, before enough money came in to have a proper monument made, so that we could gather on 11 November 2006 and rededicate Grandpa Isaac’s grave. |
Meanwhile, our Olsens had chosen Keokuk, Iowa, for their new home. In August, we tried out our new Eleanor’s long-trek capabilities by driving the 2500-mile round-trip.
Recent experiences with the terrors of déménagement1 may have restrained our shutterbugging proclivities: one hesitates to preserve much record of the consequent disorder. Or maybe I’ve just misplaced the pictures. But the next photos in our collection don’t record our beautiful newly-Iowan grandchildren, but rather our first homeward-bound stop at Florence, Nebraska, where the Neff grist-mill still stands.
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