Pioneer Cemetery Continued

This grave makes it clear that Civil War officers were among the many that came west to find their fortunes.

The Hassard family seems to have had plenty of money for erecting a memorial to their loved ones.

Thomas and Mary Golden lost their boy to unnamed calamity. These simple stones always tell a story even when the details are all missing.

I find the representation of mother and child on this stone quite interesting. the infant is represented by the fresh growth of leaves on the branch. New life is cut short. Mother has a tied up shock of wheat representing the harvest of a life at the end of a growing season. Her age is young in our eyes, but in 1889 in the PWN, this was a long life. And so it has been marked as such.