The project began in May and today it was completed. The Bergh Cemetery is where Grandpa Bergh's church once stood, rural Volga, S.D. It is where Grandpa and Grandma Bergh, several uncles and aunts and my brother, Richard, are buried. The big stone, BERGH, has a slight tilt. My intitial concern was to stand it up true vertically. Because it was placed on wet concrete poured into a deep hole straightening it was not feasible. Six Bergh name markers, sometimes called 'footstones' had settled into the ground. Granite foundations for these stones were ordered to improve their position but when the foundations were placed it was discovered that the footsone had jagged bottoms. This made them unsuitable for placing on the foundations. The footstones were shipped off to have their bottoms sawed flat. Today the modified footstones were mounted on the granite platforms.
There are eight surviving grandchildren of Grandpa Olai and Grandma Minnie Bergh. When they were notified of the work being done, and the attendant cost, they and their children generously responded with the money to pay for the work.
Two of the Grandparent's children died about 100 years ago. Their son, Martin, died in a airplane crash in 1920, and their daughter, Ella, died on the Spanish Flu in 1922. Now their footstones rest on granite foundations that should last in perpetuity.
Takk for alt,
Al
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