It started snowing early Monday evening and continued for much of the night. And then it started up again mid-morning Tuesday. Almost everything in the garden is buried under a coating of white. This was the view at the edge of our driveway on January 29. Not as much snow as this latest storm.
And the view yesterday morning, February 12. Clearly there wasn't much wind as Mary's former gravestone was not as covered up.
Mark bought this from a monument company that was going out of business. They told him that the stone was "de-accessioned," meaning the family ordered a new monument listing multiple names on it. Apparently for large family plots this is not an uncommon practice. Our stone reads:
Mary
Wife of William Lavin
Died April 5, 1868
84 yrs.
Native of Co. Sligo
Ireland
May She Rest in Peace
. . .
She must have been one tough cookie to leave her home and come here; to say nothing of living through the American Civil War. If you do the math, she was born in 1784. It's hard to even begin to imagine what her life in Sligo must have been like in the eighteenth century. One hopes coming to America turned out to be a wise move.
