Here is a post my Dad put up on Facebook:
This post is just family, my immediate and extended, on the Saunders
side. I wanted to give you a heads up about an upcoming event and feel
free to share with other family members not on Facebook.
There is
an old family cemetery from my mother's side (Mangum) in Jackson Hole,
Wyoming. It has quite a story and too long to put in one post so
perhaps over the next several weeks I will share pieces of it. It used
to be situated on their homestead there in Wyoming. It now sits right
in the middle of a big housing area called Teton Village. A bunch of us
family are going to gather there the third week-end in May (just ahead
of Memorial Day week-end), probably May 19-22 (Thursday to Sunday) and
clean up the cemetery, plant wild flowers and depending upon funding,
perhaps do some other things.
I am going to see if Lorna will
coordinate housing for anyone who would like to come, rent vacation
homes for groups of people. You would have to pay her in advance as she
doesn't have the funds for paying for them. But if this sounds like
something you would like to be a part of, can you let me know.
Depending upon funding, there are several relatives of the family and a
family that was good friends wiht the Mangum's also buried there and we
will see if we can afford to put small concrete markers on those
gravesites. They have temporary markers on them now, although in
researching we think there are at least 3 that might not be marked so
we'll do some searching now that we know they should be there and see if
we can find them. And if there is funding we may put a small bench
there so that people can sit and enjoy the solitude of the place. And
last, we are looking at putting up a small historical marker that tells
what the place is and a small bit of its history.
Sorry for the long post. Let me know if this is something you would like to be a part of.
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