We Need a Headstone

After being inspired by Keryn's Daughters of the Utah Pioneers meeting this morning, we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and visit the historic Spanish Fork Pioneer Cemetery. It was tricky to find since it is on a road that doesn't show up on Google Maps. (Here's a house next door that you can plot on Google Maps, even if they don't currently show the road.) We placed a couple of phone calls and got some good directions and we were off.

It was beautiful and fun. Part two of our adventure was to drop by the regular Spanish Fork Cemetery (a few blocks from our house) and try to find the grave of Bertha Ericksen Larsen. She is the great-grandmother of Grandma Peters. Michelle mentioned in a comment earlier that she was buried in Spanish, and we wanted to find her. We found her in the online cemetery records, but we were unable to find her plot in person.

We think we found the exact spot where she's supposed to be buried, but there are no headstones in that spot. We think she was buried without a headstone. This seems to be confirmed by the fact that they don't have a picture of her headstone in the online database either. We ought to remedy this! I don't actually know what a headstone costs, but I figure it is a couple of hundred dollars for a small one. Maybe we can do something before the family reunion and anyone can come visit it during the family reunion.

Keryn will double check with the cemetery officials to confirm our finding. Then we'll price out a small headstone. If anyone would like to chip in, I think it would be cool to do something for her.