I found Otis and Virgil's graves...
Nov. 19th, 2019 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dee_burrisOtis was buried by the members of the Vicksburg local typographical union. Although the Vicksburg Evening News reported that the family had contacted them and asked for his body to be held, thereby disrupting the funeral the day following his death, apparently they never came through. He is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg.
Virgil also died alone and was buried without the family. He died in 1911 at the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, and was buried in its section of Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. The number on his gravestone was 574.
I have never understood my Williamses when it comes to stuff like this. What on earth could have possessed four surviving siblings to have permitted the burials of their brothers to be handled by strangers?
Or maybe the people I'm calling strangers were their real families.
I hope I meet them on the other side.
Virgil also died alone and was buried without the family. He died in 1911 at the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, and was buried in its section of Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. The number on his gravestone was 574.
I have never understood my Williamses when it comes to stuff like this. What on earth could have possessed four surviving siblings to have permitted the burials of their brothers to be handled by strangers?
Or maybe the people I'm calling strangers were their real families.
I hope I meet them on the other side.