Vermont, oh wait, Canada

So, one of TCR's goals for vacation was to find some gravestones in Canada. He's uploaded details and pictures to Ancestry.com ... if you need details, please ask him.

It was a gorgeous day, we had to seek out markers for the Savages and the Lewis graves ... and we found them by walking every single row. Luckily, we started on the right end, closest to the street, and the first gravemarker was in the first row, the second was in the 7th row. Not bad.

This was the first Silas Lewis and Anna Steven stone, and Silas Lewis and Mary Savage on the reverse. It was nearest to the street. 

We found the second Lewis stone, the white one with orange lichen on it below, and it had a lot of grave plaques next to it ... babies who hadn't really made it past a few months ... we spent some time clearing the flat stones off. 

As you can see, the name of the child was all grown over. We ripped up a lot of dirt and grass. I was sad for little Betsy, Mary, Silas, and Cynthia.

 

OK, Q11 wouldn't get out of the car at this grave yard. Or the next (which didn't yield anything). She was kinds of cranky about it all until we turned around and headed back to Vermont, actually. Although she liked the Canadian candy, of which we should have bought  more (I liked it, too).

However, we did stop at a library on the way home, where I got some books at the library book store, and we stopped at another library that is situated smack dab on the US/Canada border. You walk in via the US, but to get to the teen section you have to go through to Canada. They customs right there in the library (just kidding, they didn't. But they did show the line, it is inlaid marble on the floor of the library!) And Q left that painted rock outside the library by the stone obelisk marking the line. I missed pictures there though.