Perhaps the title of today's blog is a little hyperbolic. Regular readers may remember some discussion of Bertha Mostue's grave near the Bergh plot in the Bergh Cemetery. She was my grandmother's aunt who came to help her niece take care of the children. Eight grandchildren of the grandmother survive today and none of us have any memory of our parents talking about Aunt Bertha. Thus there was this anonymous woman buried just outside of the Bergh plot.
Maybe I read to much into this anonymity but it makes me wonder if she was another unmarried woman too easily ignored? Operating on my assumption that she'd been too long ignored I placed a granite foundation under her footstone as was done with the other Berghs. The foundation ordered for her stone was extra large to allow the placement of an identifying plaque. The plaque reads "Aunt of Minnie Bergh." (See picture below.) Now no one need wonder about the identity of this woman who died in 1918. Rest in peace, Aunt Bertha.
Takk for alt,
Al
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