Graves of Kate Burke Beaver and Edith Agnes Ecker. Part II

Below is a view south down the long axis of Section W.  Our graves are at the very end near the fence at South Orange Ave.

 

I found myself looking in the low numbers of this old map on the wall that I photographed.  Nothing was making sense.  I came to realize that what the cemetery did was to create new space for interments in the previously undesignated ground just adjacent to the fence.  That is Section W1a.  Here is what that area looks like today. You can see the Garden State Parkway in the background, and S. Orange Ave. [I find myself thinking how many times I have driven across this bridge without knowing how close I was to my ancestors.  I wonder if my mother knew?]

Because the graves are unmarked, I must surmise exactly which plot is ours, but now you will know as much as I do.  Three of the stones had the plot number engraved and I annotate the photo below. Plots #1 and #3 are arrayed across the lower portion of the photo, and Plot #11 is in the next to last row by the fence.  I speculate that our Plot #7 is the unmarked patch between #3 and #11.  (Next time I have an chance, I will ask who is buried in #6!]


[Addendum 11 March 2016.
In 2014, I had a stone placed to mark the grave of Catherine and her daughter Edith Agnes.  Here is what it looked like in the summer of 2015. (Click for a larger size image.)]

I trust they put the stone in the right spot!


People who knew I was going to visit these graves warned me to be careful.  In particular, Woodland is in the heart of where the old deadly Newark riots took place and it has been extensively vandalized.  I found Holy Sepulcher and Fairmont to be in good repair and worthy of our support. There is a wonderful group of volunteers who have been reconstructing the plot maps of Woodland and organizing its preservation.  They were very helpful to me and I wish them well.  It is my intention to pay so that these Newark graves of our direct ancestors can be placed in the perpetual-care programs of the respective cemeteries and to have markers placed on the graves.  It took me a long time to find out what happened to these people and I do not want them to be lost again.

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