Vacation Wrap-Up
Well, not quite into this daily blogging mode yet. Sorry.
Anyway, to recap the last week. Hit the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Bridgeport. Beautiful place with a lake. Unfortunately, the Bill family I was searching for were cremated and no markers left. So we drove onto Westfield to look for more Drew relatives. Once again, the couple who run Pine Hills are very nice but nothing is computerized and its difficult to look anything up. After giving up in the office, we started driving through the rows and my son Peter spotted a Bill headstone that turned out Eliza Drew Bill and her husband, Charles Bill. Next to them was a small marker for their twin sons Arthur and Luther who died either at birth or shortly thereafter.
And right next to them was a marker for my great grand-aunt, Lota Hodges, who died at age 23 shortly after receiving her degree in nursing. I had a feeling the graves would be near each other — I'm pretty sure Lota and her sister Lillian stayed with their aunt, Eliza, when they first came over from England. I'll post the headstones in the website's graveyard section later this week. Got an email from Eliza's great granddaughter Drucine Bill Onze which had two great shots of Eliza. Haven't quite figured out how to put images into this blog yet, so I'll post them in the Drew section on the website.
More about our travels tomorrow.