I intended to include the Bloomfield Cemetery graves of Laurence and Fern Peters Koftan to go with the following, but it was raining by that time and the new maintenance couple have left the graves looking shaggy.
Saturday morning I cut across the middle of the state on a Sandhills route up to Bassett where I took new photos of the John and Nellie Peters Feddersen gravestone, this time including the infant grave of Robert I'd missed previously. Why had I missed it? Because I never looked beyond the front tombstone and Mervin and Donley's infant brother's marker is at the foot of his parents. Checking the computerized grave records alerted me to my oversight. We are lucky when someone has labored to catalog graves for our genealogical uses.
This view looks east toward Bassett. Often, the town cemetery is on the west edge of town, as with Tyndall, South Dakota, and Bloomfield, Nebraska, or a mile or so west of town--though the National Czech Cemetery at Table Rock is east of town.
The little marker for the infant Robert Feddersen at the foot of his parents is clear in the two views below.
On Sunday afternoon I stopped at the Randolph cemeteries, this time northeast of town, the front one the Protestant where Myrtle Peters Wefso is the third gravestone in from the south edge road. This front view looks east toward the country road to the cemeteries at the northeast corner of Randolph, off U.S. 20.
In the view below, her stone is second from the lower left corner. I took this northward view for aid in locating her grave from the Civil War Soldier overseeing the site up there on the hilltop.
I liked the sight of the soldier keeping his watch in the cemetery circle so well on this beautiful day that I added this photo.
I got a surprise when I went a half mile farther up the road to the Catholic cemetery. I think I'd mentioned before that I didn't know where Great Uncle Glenn's first wife, Mabel Bruner Peters, the mother of Darryl, was buried. In the meantime I had learned from the Bloomfield Monitor's "100 Years Ago--1908" items a month or two ago that she was not one of the Bloomfield Bruners I'd grown up knowing: "Mabel Bruner, a teacher in the Bloomfield Schools, spent last weekend with her parents at Randolph." I won't locate my previous photos of Glenn and Paula Nordhues Peters gravestones in front of Ed and Mary Peters, our great grandparents, because I found the following, clearly indicating a new tombstone and a reburial.
This view looks east, up in the northeast corner, Glenn's (and Nellie's, Fern's, Myrtle's, Forrest's--but he's in Montana) parents back of this new tombstone, as below.
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