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    1. [HANDCART-L] Re: HANDCART-D Cemeteries
    2. Alice Volkert
    3. It isn't only helpful spirits and information on dead people that can be found in a cemetery. While on the way from St. George to Manti we stopped at several small towns along hwy 89 to check cemeteries to take pictures of head stones. This was my first time actually doing "field" research, as it were. In one of the towns, my husband was walking along one row and I was walking along another. We had gotten rather far apart when I found a headstone with the name "Colby" on it! I was so excited I jumped up an down as I called to him, waving my arms, etc. I must have looked a complete fool! Then I noticed two women walking toward me. My first thought was that they were about to call the police and have me arrested. So when they got up close, I explained that I was from out of town and had found a relation. They asked which one. When I pointed to the stone, the younger one said, "Oh, that is my great-grandmother." She then proceeded to point out each of the other stones around and give me the history and connections of each. She and her friend were there to visit the grave of her brother who had been killed in a car wreck. Even though her great-grandmother had been an actual pioneer, she and her all her family had drifted away from the church. It seemed to me so very sad. But I was grateful for the assistance she provided. And, I'm sure, all those whose names I turned in for temple work were grateful, too. I just hope that she might find her way back, someday. You never know what you might find, with a quick trip to a cemetery! Alice Colby Volkert

    07/14/1998 08:21:44