Tombstone Tuesday: First of the Great-Greats

I've posted photos of the grave markers for all my grandparents and great-grandparents. So it's on to the great-great-grandparents.

I've previously posted about my great-great-grandfather Evert Huigens's broken tombstone. His wife, my great-great-grandmother Katherine (Toemmes) Huigens Wend remarried after his death. She and her second husband, Nicholas Wend, are buried in St. Patrick Cemetery in Henry, Marshall Co., IL.

Tombstone Tuesday: William and Mary Ogden

This is a picture of the grave marker for my great-grandparents William Fredrick and Mary Elizabeth (Herren) Ogden. They are buried in Pleasant Lawn Cemetery in Geddes, SD. William died thirteen years after Mary. He was living in Platteville, WI at the time. He had two funerals, one in Platteville and one in Geddes. I don't have any birth or death information on his second wife, Mary Charbonneau. My genealogy to do list just keeps getting longer and longer. I barely have time to organize the information I already have without running off after new sources.

Tombstone Tuesday: Kains in Creighton, NE

This is the grave marker for my great-grandparents, my father's maternal grandparents. They died when he was still an infant. They are buried in St. Ludger Cemetery in Creighton, NE.

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Week 9 - Cemeteries

Week 9 – Cemeteries: Genealogists understand the full value of cemeteries and appreciate them in ways most others can’t see. Share a cemetery or cemetery experience for which you are most thankful. What makes this place special? What does it mean to you and your family history?

Right after I posted my week 10 entry for this series, I realized that I never got around to doing one for Week 9. D'oh!

The cemetery that means the most to me is one that is located in the middle of a cornfield near Henry, Marshall Co., IL. This is where my great-great-grandfather Evert Huigens is buried as well as his mother-in-law, my 3 x great-grandmother Maria (Schmitt) Toemmes. I wrote about my great-great-grandfather's broken tombstone in this post. The tombstone was knocked down and broken by vandals in 1925, according to a Henry newspaper article I have a copy of. 

Here is a satellite view of the cemetery. You can see how it sits in the middle of a corn field just of of IL highway 29. I worry about the long-term future of this resting place for my ancestors.