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| Ten Years of Deterioration Photo by Midge Frazel, 2004 and Brian Zoldak, 2014, used with permission |
Too Many Words and Too Much Time
You can see by the first photo which I took in May of 2004 when I first visited this graveyard, this stone has been deteriorating at a rapid pace in the ten years between my photograph and the one that Brian took. Even better lighting and higher resolution camera can't improve the carved areas.
This is a warning to us all. If you see a gravestone with this much information, you should photograph it. In 2004, I had only been taking photos for a short time with the goal of only recording my own ancestors. But, this gravestone and a few others caught my eye at that time and finding no information on the Gallup Family Association's Web site, I went to a Gallup reunion and asked for a simple list of who is buried in the private, gated cemetery. Apparently, no one had a list or a copy of the Hale records.
I am posting the research on these two brothers for the next two days. Rest in Peace, my second cousins, 6x removed.
This is a warning to us all. If you see a gravestone with this much information, you should photograph it. In 2004, I had only been taking photos for a short time with the goal of only recording my own ancestors. But, this gravestone and a few others caught my eye at that time and finding no information on the Gallup Family Association's Web site, I went to a Gallup reunion and asked for a simple list of who is buried in the private, gated cemetery. Apparently, no one had a list or a copy of the Hale records.
I am posting the research on these two brothers for the next two days. Rest in Peace, my second cousins, 6x removed.
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