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Mausoleum Photos 1998 - Recent Work
MAUSOLEUM PHOTOS
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RECENT WORK COMPLETED IN
1998
Below are some photos taken during our Memorial Day weekend visit in May
1998. Driving East from Bellflower we
approach  and then turn right and head toward the cemetery
along the road where Ernst built the farm for his son, Johann Wilhelm
Schowengerdt in the early 1880s; it was felt that Johann's ailing health
might improve out in this pleasant countryside...and indeed it did as Johann
lived until 1912.
Approach To The Cemetery
Open House At The Mausoleum
The picture below shows how the South side of the Mausoleum had sunk and
how we stabilized the structure.
  
Refinished Interior Walls
 
Headstones of "Ernst" and his first wife, "Elizabet (sic) Huckreide,"
still need to be cleaned and properly mounted on the wall in their original
positions. Ernst and Elizabet married in 1844. Elizabet died in 1886 and
Ernst married Sarah Shellorz Wightman in 1887 and moved to his new home in
Warrenton. These headstones need to be properly mounted on the wall West
of the graves.
 
The paint on the door and windows has greatly deteriorated over the past
ten years; although the door has been repainted it is defective and needs
to be replaced. The shutters have been repainted but need to be eventually
replaced as they are very fragile.
  
Here you can see the headstones of my GrandFather, John William S., my
Grandmother, Karoline Marie Strack S. , and my Aunt Maggie S. I never knew
my Grandfather or Aunt Maggie as they both died before I was born.
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