By sheer--uh--coincidence, I found my poor photos of the graves of [Great] Uncle John and [Great] Aunt Nellie in a group of Center pictures. I was actually at Bassett for my nephews' football game; as you can tell from the long shadows, it was late in the day, and I was in a hurry, already having walked the whole cemetery looking for [Great] Aunt Bess Koftan's, not knowing at that time (years back when Chase and Jared were still in Bloomfield High School) that she, her husband, her daughter were buried at Mills. What I did manage was a rough sort of locating by the cemetery buildings in the northeast corner of the cemetery, seen to the right rear in the photos.
In the top photo, in the diagonal of three tombstones, the Feddersen is in the center. I missed any marker for the 1922 "Baby," "Robert." Uncle John is at the left, Aunt Nellie to the right.
I also realized what a mystery photo was I had mixed in with the same Center pile. It's of Aunt Nellie, behind her pupils, looking about the same as she does in the photo of the four Naper teachers in the earlier Feddersen entry. A happy bonus.
Leave a comment