I am curious about the graves of George and Eva Gragg which are located near the Deer Park Shelter, South of Hot Springs. If anyone out there has any info. on this please share, I am interested in the history behind it.
I am curious about the graves of George and Eva Gragg which are located near the Deer Park Shelter, South of Hot Springs. If anyone out there has any info. on this please share, I am interested in the history behind it.
Includes a photo of the gravestone and two blurbs. For what it's worth...
http://books.google.com/books?id=XRs...uKBDgW1ie9g_hM
I have this book, as it turns out.
Where is this gravestone? I missed it when I hiked through the area.
RainMan
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[I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35
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That looks like an outstanding book, when was it written? I'll now have to go to the book store today!
[I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35
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That explains why we didn't see them. It was past dark and at the end of a long 16-mile day for my wife, when we hiked into Deer Park Shelter. Had I known, I would have gone back the next morning (before the short jaunt into Hot Springs) to take a gander and some photos.
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[I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35
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I came across these 2 graves today. I was surprised by a couple of things. The first was finding these 2 graves out in the middle of nowhere. The second is the inscription on Eva's headstone than said: "Absent Not Dead". Does anyone have any new info on this?
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I remember them and how I briefly wondered why they had never been brought to my attention previously. You know though how the feet keep a-moving in spite of what the mind wonders. I was on my way to Hot Springs on what was a loooong day. I think my impression was that the gravestones belonged to people who had homesteaded on that land years and years ago.
You never know just what you can do until you realize you absolutely have to do it.
--Salaun
Could be a reference to beliefs similar to those reflected in this poem:
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
---Mary Elizabeth Frye
"Are we there yet?"