April's Fools---To Photograph Or Not
Several
years ago while searching the Rock Springs City Cemetery, my husband Joe and I
were on a mission to locate a few elusive graves and photograph the headstones. When we first arrived, I noticed a couple of men working on a headstone
in a section of the cemetery where some of our family members were buried. As we walked the cemetery, we edged closer to
where the men were working. Curiously, I
told Joe I thought they were working on a family headstone, so we walked toward
the site. As we approached I realized it
was a Roberts family headstone; it was the marker for Leitita Roberts (35) and
Reuben Meacham (36).
As we
approached the workers I found it difficult to determine if they were adding a
death date to the marker and I was puzzled because I had not heard that Rueben
had died. Upon questioning, the workers
explained that no Reuben had not died, but that the wrong birth year had been
engraved on the marker!
Joe urged
me to photograph the error so I would have a “before” and “after”
photograph. I chose not to photograph
the incorrect headstone, I figured that there is enough conflicting and
confusing information in our Roberts family history and we did not need a
photograph to add to the confusion.
However, maybe I should have photographed the headstone for a visual not
to believe everything you see!
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