Savannah Memorial Park: Biographical Headstone Placards Make A Debut

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Biographical Headstone Placards Make A Debut

Janice Wiggins White, Treasurer of the Savannah Memorial Park El Monte Cemetery Association with Andrew J. King's new placard on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. The Savannah Memorial Park Cemetery in Rosemead has been installing biographical headstone placards showcasing some of the San Gabriel Valley's prominent and infamous settlers.

Photo and Story: Mike Mullen / Staff)

Read more: Historic Cemetery Makes The News

Editor's Note: A correction to the above story "About 100 veterans of the Civil War are buried there as well, volunteers said. So far volunteers have identified the graves of about 20 — 10 from the Union and 10 from the Confederacy". The cemetery has 100 veterans from ALL wars buried there, not 100 veterans from the Civil War.

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Cemeteries are more than sacred ground, they tell a history and can act as a textbook of the community. Gravestones provides names, birth and death dates, occupations, ethnicity or nationality. Gravestone also reflect community development and changing artistic tastes.

The addition of our "Self-Guided Tour" is to help bring the community more aware of the rich history that is contained in Savannah Memorial Park. The project will include placards being placed close to the headstone that will tell a short history of the person/family buried there.

The signs cost $100 each and you can help to support this project with your donation. Make checks payable to Savannah Memorial Park with a notation for "Tour Sign" on your check.

Mail donations to El Monte Cemetery Association, Post Office Box 4247, El Monte, CA 91734. Or visit our website: www.savannahcemetery.org and make your donation on-line via PayPal.

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest; neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care; it is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist; you died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago,
Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so.

I wonder as you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you.

~ Author Unknown

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Biographical Headstone Placards Make A Debut

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