Ancestral Ramblings

So...what does your family like to do on the weekends? Well . . . we like to visit very old dead people we don't even know. Seeing that we're now living in an area just chock-a-block full of history - most of it now long forgotten - we've decided to spend more time this year exploring our own historical backyard. Today's outing: The small Stent Cemetery near Jamestown, California. Aaron's maternal grandmother, Nettie Jones Perkins supposedly was born in this very town when it was actually a thriving mining town. By the advent of her birth in 1900 it was in decline, as were many small towns in the region once mines became depleted. By 1925 the post office was decommissioned and shut up for good. Today, all that's left is this very small, hardly noticeable cemetery. Blink and you'll miss it. Only a handful of tombstones remain with many forgotten graves, now unmarked. Some are beautiful while other are mere rustic slabs of granite; no name, no det