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A walk through the past

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Okay. So I’m weird. I like to visit cemeteries.
Not because I have weird ideas, but because they fascinate me. And at some point in time, that is where everyone ends up.

All that is left to commemorate your life on this earth is a slab of granite, and given enough time
even the words engraved give way to the forces of nature, and they fade away too.

The other day I stopped at the Butternut Ridge cemetary in North Olmsted. It was a pretty day, and all of the trees are starting to show brilliant colors of green and red. It was founded in and in the middle 1880’s and is an interesting part of the local history. Here you will find the founders of North Olmsted, the Stearns. They were involved in the Civil War, and I believe that the entire family “rests” here.

One tombstone is intricately carved and looks like a tree, complete with bark and small branch limbs. There is a mother that rests there, and the broken limbs have carved scrolls with the names of all the babies that she lost. If I remember correctly, there were 5 or 6 of them that didn’t live to age 5. And you wonder what happened to her children and how life could continue
without them? How hard it would be to give life and have it taken away so quickly. Probably illness or disease, given the time in which she lived. This stone is easily visible from Butternut Ridge Road.

My favorite cemetery in this area is Lakeview. This is a beautiful spot that you can walk among the great. Here you will find the resting spot of oilman, John D. Rockefeller, James A. Garfield (the 20th president of the United States) and Marcus Hannah just to mention a few.

There is nothing like walking among dead presidents!

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