family grave visit #2
May. 27th, 2009 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaSunday morning we visited two sets of family graves in the Boston area. Set 1 will have another post - I transcribed the stone inscriptions and left the paper at home. Set 2 is my great-grandparents, Ormon Earle and Jane Augusta (Jennie) Spurr Bassett, and their daughter, Rosamund Jane. They are all buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge (http://www.mountauburn.org/), under one stone (relatively recently placed by my grandfather).
Rosamund died at age 2 when they were living somewhere in Boston. It was only after her death that they conceived my grandfather, who was born in August 1922. Jennie was a nurse from Nova Scotia who came to Boston in the teens. Ormon was named after Ormond Beach, FL, where his parents honeymooned. My mother has fond memories of, especially, her grandmother (although when pressed could not actually conjure anything specific!) She said they they both lived with her family for a while when the family lived in Winchester MA in my mother's elementary school years (later 1950s-early 1960s).
My mother was really happy to visit the gravesite, although I know she's been there relatively recently with my sister. The stone was 1/4 buried by soil creep from the hill. It's in an area called St. Paul's Plot, below Spruce Lane, above a small lake. There are currently active areas of the cemetery nearby, and my mother reports that her husband is thinking about buying a plot somewhere; she seemed taken by the idea of Mount Auburn. She made us promise to come visit her when we're in Boston if she's buried there (she's 59 and in good health, but my stepfather is 77).
Rosamund died at age 2 when they were living somewhere in Boston. It was only after her death that they conceived my grandfather, who was born in August 1922. Jennie was a nurse from Nova Scotia who came to Boston in the teens. Ormon was named after Ormond Beach, FL, where his parents honeymooned. My mother has fond memories of, especially, her grandmother (although when pressed could not actually conjure anything specific!) She said they they both lived with her family for a while when the family lived in Winchester MA in my mother's elementary school years (later 1950s-early 1960s).
My mother was really happy to visit the gravesite, although I know she's been there relatively recently with my sister. The stone was 1/4 buried by soil creep from the hill. It's in an area called St. Paul's Plot, below Spruce Lane, above a small lake. There are currently active areas of the cemetery nearby, and my mother reports that her husband is thinking about buying a plot somewhere; she seemed taken by the idea of Mount Auburn. She made us promise to come visit her when we're in Boston if she's buried there (she's 59 and in good health, but my stepfather is 77).