Final Resting Places of Uncle Tom, Uncle Dick and Aunt Florence

As we headed south out of Kinsella we stopped at the Kinsella cemetery to find Uncle Tom's grave.  The cemetery was well kept thanks to the volunteer work of Ross Skori and perhaps others.

After some searching we located Uncle Tom's marker.

Thomas Candy RIP

We had learned from the Kinsella local history accounts that Uncle Dick and Florrie moved from the property we had visited with Ross Skori to Killam, a town located several miles southwest.  In subsequent email exchanges with Cousin Lorene, who was part of the 1955 return to Kinsella tour, she stated that she did not visit the property we had seen with Ross but instead visited Uncle Dick and Aunt Florrie in a nearby town.  It would be a good guess that this was their home in Killam where they, according to the Kinsella history account, had some sort of egg farming operation after leaving the homestead.  We can conclude that their move to Killam occurred before 1955.

Ken was able to access county cemetery records on his iPhone and confirmed that both Uncle Dick and Aunt Florrie had been buried in Killam.  After a stop in Sedgewick (the subject of another post) we drove to Killam and wandered around until we found the Killam cemetery outside of town. Once we arrived we quickly located Uncle Dick and Aunt Florrie's markers.

It is interesting that the writing on Aunt Florrie's marker is bright with little tarnish. Is this due to some original process to the marker, or has someone from Florrie's family recently polished it?

It is apparent that someone in 1980 took care to order a bronze marker for Aunt Florrie that closely matched Uncle Dick's .

Uncle Dick and Aunt Florrie RIP

I knew at some point I had come across a photograph of Uncle Dick's gravesite with flowers and two youths in the picture.  I was able to locate it and it is shown below.  According to notes on the back of the photo it was taken on September 15, 1958 and the names are Bobby and Crystal.  They would be 70-ish today.  Perhaps they are Aunt Florrie's grandchildren and therefore second step-cousins to the Lindsay/Stoneham/MacDonald boomers (and yes,Vern too, since I think he is pleased to technically not be in the boomer cadre).

Uncle Dicks gravesite with 'Bobby' and 'Crystal' September 15, 1958