Headstone Hunting

On November 5, 2011, My sister Corinne Carter asked me if I would be able to hunt for some headstone here in the Orange Cemetery.   A lady was requesting on findagrave.com for a photo of a headstone to be placed on her ancestors site that she had created.    Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Scott Valkenburg, supposedly was buried here in the Orange Cemetery.  
Corinne also requested for photos of headstones of Pvt. Timothy Joseph Cutcliffe age 21 killed in Vietnam and Harriet Catt Fuller both to be buried in Orange.   
Elder Tietjen and I took the names to the Cemetery Clerk and she looked them up.    She said that the Pvt. was in the Orange Cemetery and Harriet was in the Byng Cemetery.    But there was no sign of Elizabeth being buried in the area.  

We looked up the Orange Cemetery and found it only 5 minutes from us.    We found Pvt. Timothy's headstone right off with the directions from the Clerk.   His parents were also right next to him.  

We found that the Byng Cemetery was only about 20 min from us so we took a little ride there.  

There  we found this quaint little valley with a church and a very small run down cemetery.

This is the entrance to the Byng Cemetery.    We looked and looked in the tall grasses and many flowering bushes but could not find Harriet Fuller.

We decided to come back the next day more equipted with rake and clipper in hand.   We would use the rake to pull back some of the tall grasses and most of all probe around to scare the snakes.    This is the time of the year for the snakes to come out.    We were very glad we did not see any.

We finally found Harriet Fuller grave on the second time here.   According to the findagrave web site that was submitted, she died on March 7th 1873.   But on the records we got from the Clerk she died on June 7th 1873.   We took photos from many angles to see if we could read it correct.   As we looked Elder Tietjen and I were both positive that it said she had died in June.    Was this really the Harriet Fuller that we wanted?

That evening as we enlarged the photos on the computer  we could see plain as day that she had died in March.   We had found the right Harriet Fuller.    I sent the photos to Corinne and she wrote to the submitter on findagrave and told him that we had found a photo but she was not buried in Orange.    He changed the information and her headstone photo is now entered as being in Byng, NSW, Australia

We took other headstone photos that Corninne will get submitted to findagrave.com
It is so neat how you have such a reverent feeling and a slight connection to these people when you go out amongest their grave sites.   I could spend a whole mission doing this.