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When the park came, there was much confusion, hostility, etc., concerning the Department of the Interior’s stance on interments, cemetery maintenance etc., and basic assumption on our relatives’ part ihat they could not bury anyone there, thus the basic reason for my greatgrandparents not being put in the same place.
The same reasons also prevailed the family’s thinking about placing a marker at Emily’s grave. In the mid 1970’s however, I had gone to park headquarters and spoke with the superintendent, then a Mr. Jacobson I think, about the rules and regulations regarding family cemeteries. I leaned that the government did not own them, the families did, and that we were permitted to maintain them under certain guide lines.
With the assistance of a dear late cousin of mine, Jessie Gaunt Palmer, we took it upon ourselves to go to the Bolen cemetery and try to fix some of the crumbling stone wall. We hauled water, cement mix, etc., and spent a day mortaring sections of the wall. The same day, using a small cardboard box as a form, I made a makeshift tombstone for my great-grandmother Emily’s grave, using my finger to
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