cemeteries

We had to bundle up for the annual cemetery walk on Sunday afternooon.

The Zion City Cemetery was founded in 1902 and renamed Mt. Olivet in 1904. The first burial was November 4, 1902. As of September 20, 2023, there are 15,266 people buried here.

(This entry will tell you more about Zion's origin as a religious community in the early 20th century.)

I portrayed Dorothy Peterson. She was born in Hector, MN, in 1897. Her family came to Zion in 1906. She went to Chicago Music College and became an actress on Broadway. She went to to ...

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Wikipedia explains: The Northeast Kingdom is the northeast corner Vermont comprising Essex, Orleans, and Caldedonia Counties. The population is about 65,000. . The term "Northeast Kingdom" is attributed to George D. Aiken, governor and senator. He first used the term in a 1949 speech. The area is often referred to by Vermonters simply as "The Kingdom."

The Stevens and Woods families settled in and around St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in the early 19th century. The Hilyard children spent every summer in their mother's hometown in the late 1940's and early 1950's. We hadn't been there since 1998 ...

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