Cleaning the Headstone of Mary Mershon and Peter Stall

On June 22, 2025, we visited Garvin Cemetery in Union Township, Scioto County, Ohio, to clean the headstones of Mary Ann Mershon (née Shaw) and her grandson Peter Stall. Mary Ann Mershon was born November 11, 1830, in Nile Township and died September 18, 1897. Her monument is a white Continue Reading

Floral Hills Memory Gardens

While traveling north on US 23 towards Chillicothe, Ohio, we stopped at Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Ross County to appreciate the hard work of a small group of volunteers who have been maintaining this 37-acre cemetery. Eleven years ago, Ronald Downey and Joseph Miller, the cemeteries’ owners organized under Continue Reading