Well hello blog world! So my sister-in-law is absolutely convinced I am going to be a world famous blogger and has decided to be my manager and set this whole crazy thing up. Sooooo...here goes nothing!
Today I took my mom and my sister-in-law, Jennifer, to one of my favorite places in Jacksonville. Evergreen Cemetery. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Jacksonville with big local names like "Du Pont", "Cummer", and "Isiah Hart"on seemingly ancient headstones. This place is enormous, with winding roads and blankets of old oak trees and Spanish moss. It seriously feels like a scene out of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". I love peeking in the windows of the big family tombs, usually I'll find cobwebs and decades old fake flowers. Every 18 months or so the cemetery hosts a tour, usually in April or October. This year I was working, but next time I will not miss it!
The purpose of today's trip was to find the family plot of Leah Mary Cox. Leah was a Jacksonville resident, who moved to the city in the 1880s when she was a teenager. Throughout her life she took hundreds of photographs, documenting daily life in Jacksonville, including big events like the Great Fire. I had just finished reading a book featuring her photographs, and when I saw she was buried in Evergreen, I knew I had to find her. The strange thing is, she is listed in the cemetery's books, along with the rest of her family, but the only graves we found in their plot was of 2 of her sisters and her mother. Not her. So what happened to the grave of Leah Mary Cox? I smell research project!
Today I took my mom and my sister-in-law, Jennifer, to one of my favorite places in Jacksonville. Evergreen Cemetery. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Jacksonville with big local names like "Du Pont", "Cummer", and "Isiah Hart"on seemingly ancient headstones. This place is enormous, with winding roads and blankets of old oak trees and Spanish moss. It seriously feels like a scene out of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". I love peeking in the windows of the big family tombs, usually I'll find cobwebs and decades old fake flowers. Every 18 months or so the cemetery hosts a tour, usually in April or October. This year I was working, but next time I will not miss it!
The purpose of today's trip was to find the family plot of Leah Mary Cox. Leah was a Jacksonville resident, who moved to the city in the 1880s when she was a teenager. Throughout her life she took hundreds of photographs, documenting daily life in Jacksonville, including big events like the Great Fire. I had just finished reading a book featuring her photographs, and when I saw she was buried in Evergreen, I knew I had to find her. The strange thing is, she is listed in the cemetery's books, along with the rest of her family, but the only graves we found in their plot was of 2 of her sisters and her mother. Not her. So what happened to the grave of Leah Mary Cox? I smell research project!
