Below are photos my daughter Kate & I took while on a trip to
Fort Massac for the 100th celebration of the George Rogers Clark Statue and
dedication while in Metropolis, IL. On our way home which was Sunday, November
02, 2008, we had such a beautiful day we stopped at cemeteries along our route
home. This was one of them. My most outstanding thing we found here were many
many bases without their tops. to my amazement they had been put out to pasture
with the cows. they are supposedly there for storage while the church is in the
process of restoring this cemetery. And I mean they are literally put out to
pasture.
You be the judge here. Also, many of them are written in a foreign language
of which I have no idea if it's German or not but looks like it to me or could
be Latin since it is a Lutheran church.
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you can see where they are many bases in this part of the cemetery with no tops
to them. You can also see the tree line behind them with a fence. The tops were
thrown there and we found some of them there. I'm not sure how many are there
you can also tell the stones are leaning many of them still & does that mean
they will soon loose their tops to put out to pasture????? .
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up these that look like this are sepia. I forgot I had turned it on to read the
stones better. It helps sometimes when taking photos and you are not sure if you
will be able to read them or not.
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the stones.
The two photos above are big thumbnails and hard to read so left them the same size as photo and made thumbnails if you click on them they open in another window with a much larger picture.
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you can see where they are many bases in this part of the cemetery with no tops
to them. You can also see the tree line behind them with a fence. The tops were
thrown there and we found some of them there. I'm not sure how many are there
you can also tell the stones are leaning many of them still & does that mean
they will soon loose their tops to put out to pasture????? more on the next
page.
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stones put out to pasture!!! sorry 4 my shadow. sun was behind us as it was
getting on in the late afternoon on Sunday when we arrived here.
St. John's Lutheran Cemetery Page One
St. John's Lutheran Cemetery Page three
