Since the weather was gorgeous today, I decided to revisit Sunrise Cemetery to continue updating my cemetery records. I will postpone my visit to the Commerce Library until Thursday, since it will be open until 8 p.m. that day anyway.
I made it through about 330 graves today, and I got a sunburn while doing it. I haven't worn a short sleeve tshirt without a jacket in a good while, so it felt good to soak up the sun.
I found the graves of a few I had been wondering about. I knew Fred & Miriam BLANKENSHIP and Bob ROE had been buried since my last inventory, but didn't know where--until today. I also found new graves for Stanley CASH, Morgan COTTON and Toni MCGEE. I also found a future grave for Butch MCGEE.
There were several of those solar crosses in the cemetery. Those will absorb the sun's energy during the day and light the cross at night. I've heard that Jackson Memorial Gardens in Commerce is beautiful at night with all the crosses glowing. The grave of Chase Dillon BOSWELL, infant son of Shad & Charitye Lewis BOSWELL, had moon-shaped and star-shaped solar lights that I hadn't seen before.
Most cemeteries are inventoried by rows, which is fine if the cemetery is laid out in a nice plotted plan, but this cemetery has some of the most misaligned rows I've ever seen. I tried to do my last edition of the book by cemetery plots instead of by rows but this is confusing when you're trying to find the grave and using the book as a guide.
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