tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post4121645870689945259..comments2024-03-28T07:36:52.789-04:00Comments on Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Grave MistakeVicki Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-60635451779130526162009-12-06T11:15:38.468-05:002009-12-06T11:15:38.468-05:00I see your mystery has now turned into 2. Can'...I see your mystery has now turned into 2. Can't wait to see what you discover about both little girls. Ruby died on my b-day.Tipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714281090985487356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-15803297189283354682009-12-05T21:20:03.112-05:002009-12-05T21:20:03.112-05:00Just got off the phone with Jeter Cantrell -- brot...Just got off the phone with Jeter Cantrell -- brother of the lost child -- who has kindly filled in some blanks. I have a few more things to check and another visit to make to the cemetery and eventually there'll be another post on the subject. Stay tuned!Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-91469262524294457432009-12-05T17:52:04.452-05:002009-12-05T17:52:04.452-05:00Vicki, I'm fascinated and hooked and counting ...Vicki, I'm fascinated and hooked and counting on you to keep us posted,please.Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Museshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07486129009717476920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-65367224417857826762009-12-05T12:44:54.128-05:002009-12-05T12:44:54.128-05:00Lives! I meant lives! And how that paragraph got ...Lives! I meant lives! And how that paragraph got out of place I do not know.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-74452364771890195372009-12-05T12:40:32.861-05:002009-12-05T12:40:32.861-05:00I'm pretty sure I was taught not to walk on gr...I'm pretty sure I was taught not to walk on graves but I must have forgotten my manners in trying to read the markers for Nancy mentioned that custom. After which I did better.<br /><br />My grandparents were great cemetery visitors -- and when my grandmother died (at 91,) once a week my grandfather would have himself driven out to Myrtle Hill where her grave was. Evey week he'd take a fresh pot of flowers and sit on the marble bench he'd had put by the grave.<br /><br />Once when my boys (quite young at the time) and I accompanied him on the weekly pilgrimage, he poked at the grave with his cane and said, "There's where Ba live now."<br /><br />Thanks Lynne and Vagabonde for the comments on Oakland. Usually, whenever I'm traveling, I visit old cemeteries if possible.<br /><br />I kind of had a fit, trying not to offend my dear grandfather, and, at the same time, not wanting my boys to take away an image of their grandmother living in a box in the ground.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-15752546703936186492009-12-05T12:09:23.869-05:002009-12-05T12:09:23.869-05:00I’m enjoying your search for the little girl’s gra...I’m enjoying your search for the little girl’s grave. I enjoy going to cemeteries and I don’t find them macabre. I wrote a post on Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta – I don’t know if you read it (http://avagabonde.blogspot.com/2009/05/historic-oakland-cemetery.html) and while researching the subject I was surprised to find that visiting cemeteries was a great pastime in Victorian times and that the large Brooklyn Cemetery would get as many as ½ million visitors in the 1800s. I did visit my mother and father’s graves when I was in France in early November but also peeked at other tombs, old ones, and tried to imagine how their lives went.Vagabondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774109692564954568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-42496142003474544412009-12-05T11:58:51.593-05:002009-12-05T11:58:51.593-05:00Sad but fascinating story; thanks for the investia...Sad but fascinating story; thanks for the investiagation and thr pictures. I love to browse in old cemtaries.<br /><br /> In Atlanta's Oakland Cemetary there is a little lamb statue beside a child's grave. In history walking tour you find out that the child had a duck that followed her whereever she went, but the monumeng maker couldn't carve the duck they wanted near her grave so they used the lamb instead. <br /><br />If you're ever in Atlanta, they do the walking tours spring through fall with a variety of tours available--celebraty graves, African American history, Atlanta notables such the golfer Bobby Jones and Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell, architectural tours, and one on Victoria symbolism. <br /><br /> If cemetqries facinate you too, you might also like the mysteries of Sarah Stewart Taylor which hinge on ghe customes and symbolism of mourning and cemeteries.<br /><br />I grew up in Wisconsin and Ky. and the custome ther was ot to walk on graves too<br /><br />Lynne in GA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-11703514010194580712009-12-05T11:58:51.594-05:002009-12-05T11:58:51.594-05:00Ruby AND Reba, twins? Now this is fodder for some ...Ruby AND Reba, twins? Now this is fodder for some fabulous fiction!!Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-2804708031223669472009-12-05T10:35:58.517-05:002009-12-05T10:35:58.517-05:00Glad to hear you and Nancy are on the case. I agre...Glad to hear you and Nancy are on the case. I agree with Martin H - I see a novel brewing too. Can't wait to hear more.<br /><br />Most children's graves have the pretty little lambs on them, at least where I grew up. I always went with my Grandmother after Sunday lunch to the cemetery to visit my grandfather, then on to her own family's plot. We were checking to see if they were mowed properly and often to place flowers there. This brings back a flood of memories of visiting the cemetery as a child - and where we'll both be buried someday.<br />Sam<br /><br />P.S. Where I grew up, as I child I was told that you weren't supposed to walk on the grave. It was disrespectful to the dead. Is that true everywhere?Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15358601435867848753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-49527365300254805502009-12-05T08:52:17.563-05:002009-12-05T08:52:17.563-05:00I think Miss Yves' comment is exactly right. I...I think Miss Yves' comment is exactly right. I feel it's important to remember the dead, to speak their names (if we know them,)and to tell their stories. <br /><br />Of course I want to use these stories. As I usually, do, it'll come out as a fictional mash-up of sorts. I might combine the stories of the two children in a novel -- giving the correct stories (as far as I know them)in the acknowledgments.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-17069398890023442732009-12-05T07:33:31.363-05:002009-12-05T07:33:31.363-05:00This gets better and better! :)
We have a little s...This gets better and better! :)<br />We have a little snow left! :)Carol Murdockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16749285023748227382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-3389908979174396252009-12-05T06:45:00.025-05:002009-12-05T06:45:00.025-05:00Someone thinks to this poor little girl ,You reme...Someone thinks to this poor little girl ,You remember her,and compulse us think to her...as if she were alive again ...So, we don't forget her although it's difficult to know the truth <br />Beautiful and moving photos .Miss_Yveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11558587966129386283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-19727718382416085602009-12-05T06:11:51.018-05:002009-12-05T06:11:51.018-05:00Very interesting, but sad story. I'm glad you...Very interesting, but sad story. I'm glad you found the grave and have help in trying to find out more information. Somehow this has got to be incorporated in one of your books!Pat in east TNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11654095647835294718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-67536273660350263042009-12-05T02:49:45.024-05:002009-12-05T02:49:45.024-05:00Vicki
I'm hooked on this story. There's a...Vicki<br /><br />I'm hooked on this story. There's a novel brewing up, I just know it!Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219959077922220noreply@blogger.com