Branching Out Together!: The funeral cards or Cemeteries?

Well its inevitable but all of us will eventually pass on to join our lord and savior but for now I'm still here and much of my research has taken me around southern Manitoba, Yes, from one cemetery to another. Now before you start to cringe its not that bad, OK may be it is but some cemeteries are so beautifully groomed and peaceful.

For example take the cemetery back home, Greenridge Cemetery, you discover the pioneers of a community all resting in one location. A third of the residents there are directly and indirectly related to the Thomas & Maria Pott family.

But that really wasn't the purpose of this posting, I was going to tell you a story about an envelope of old funeral cards but since we're here I might as well write about the cemetery and post a couple pictures of various family headstones. I don't know the history of the cemetery but the local church Greenridge United Church is located next door. Residents from the neighboring communities of Woodmore, Ridgeville, Roseau River, and of course Greenridge (Old New bridge) just to name a few have buried their loved ones for over a century.

I know there are a number of very old tomb stones as I was the groundskeeper for the cemetery back in 1978 & 1979. Some of them date back to the late 1870's.