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mscnDe tne wet cement. A photo of this appear in Jack and Carolyn Reeder’s book, Shenandoah Vistages. Later, finding that this “stone” I’d made had broken, I did another which has stood for some years.
Grandmother, who is now in her 80’s, had her heart set on doing one last thing while she had some time left and she was able to see to it, and that was to buy her mother and two siblings a gravestone. In April, my uncle John Pullen, my mother, Florine and grandma and me went to Groves Monument Company in Winchester. From my research I had in hand the death certificates of the three and picking a stone grandma like, we gave them the pertinent information to be inscribed thereon. They told us it would be probably August before it would be ready.
The monument company having called Uncle John a few days earlier, we were to meet them for the placement of the stone on Tuesday, June 26. By 10:30 a.m. we had all assembled at the end of Gid Brown Hollow (Route 614) and headed up to the Bolen Cemetery. Our trip up the one mile was indeed a pleasure this time, as the road had been worked by park employees.
Scott Haines and Michael Stickel were the young men who did all the labor, digging the foundation and setting the stone. This was all attested to and witnessed by representatives of four generations of
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