Saturday's Cemetery Hop with members of the White River Valley Historical Society was a day to remember. I don't know where they came up with the term "cemetery hop", but what they do is a tremendous service and well spent effort in preservation of cemetery records. This month's "hop" was at Meadows Cemetery where my parents, Bilyeu grandparents and Cupp great-grandparents are buried. I believe the oldest documented grave there is that of a child who was born and died in 1862. Many of the stones are so old that any inscriptions that may have ever been there have been worn away by wind and rain. There are currently 131 recorded graves on www.findagrave.com. In the near future that site will be updated to include pictures and inscriptions of the documented stones. My granddaughters learned how to properly clean the old stones, then chalk them so that faded names and inscriptions could be read. I am grateful that Ashton and Erin were given this opportunity to learn skills that help them to better appreciate their ancestry and the preservation of these monuments of history.
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