Tonight while awaiting the new year (oh dear, it’s already here!), I came across a visit I made with my middle daughter to the burial place of a distant family line. It was a sunny day and ours was a genealogical mission. We found the family enclosure on church grounds and read several epitaphs: “Father in thy gracious keeping leave we now thy servant sleeping”; “She had departed but has left with us a happy memory of her many virtues”; “Lord at thy side let my place and portion be. I would in thy peace abide for thou lovest me.”
As we were returning to our van, we were drawn to another enclosure whose entrance was an arbor shaded by a tree from which ornaments and wind chimes dangled. The site included a garden bench. Several stuffed toys lay atop the small grave which bore the marker “Jon Benet Patricia Ramsey.”
Had to look her up. What an awful story!
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I remember Jon Benet Ramsey’s case…I’m not sure if her murder was ever solved?
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I don’t believe so. We were so surprised to come across her grave by accident! It was lovely.
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