Sheep Pen Cemetery Update: Gravestones of William Irwin Sr., Margaret Irwin, and Julia Ann Yohn are the Latest to Be Restored

Sharing the latest photographs from Scott Andersen of cleaned, repaired, and reset gravestones at Sheep Pen Cemetery, Madison Twp., Highland County, Ohio.  

Click on their names to read more about them on their "Find A Grave" memorials. 

For the first time in a long time, the gravestones of William Irwin, Sr. and his wife, Margaret McCormick Irwin, are standing upright next to each other and supported within their bases.  

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The small broken marker for Julia Ann (Aber) Yohn - wife of William, has been cleaned, and placed in its base.  A section of the upper left corner of the stone that had broken off years ago has progressively become ill-shaped.  

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Thanking Scott Andersen for all of the additional extensive restoration work that has brought these fragile grave markers back to their rightful and respectful presence in the Sheep Pen Cemetery.  

Remembering a Civil War Veteran Buried at Sheep Pen Cemetery - Corp. Noah Turner "N. T." McVay

Remembering Corp. Noah Turner "N. T." McVay buried at Sheep Pen Cemetery in Madison Township, Highland County, Ohio. 

Thanking Scott Andersen for two new 2016 photos of Corp. McVay's gravestone after it was dug up out of the ground and put in a new base that was made for it. The photo on the upper left was taken in 2010 before it was dug up and properly cleaned, repaired and reset.  

Remembering My Aunt Mary Zagorsky Stitak Today

Sharing my Find A Grave memorial for my Aunt Mary Zagorsky Stitak who was born August 14, 1912.

My Aunt Mary was the best baker of cakes, nut and poppyseed rolls that I enjoyed eating so much!  She made her homemade chicken noodle soup with her own hand cut homemade noodles.  She was talented with crocheting afghans.  Later in her life she learned ceramics and created ceramic clocks, decorative wall Christmas trees, lighted glitter balls, and angel figurines.  She was a devout practicing Catholic all of her life who walked to church each morning before walking to her cleaning lady job for 17 years.  People like my Aunt Mary don't come along all that often, and I feel so blessed to have been her niece.

In this photo, my mother is standing to the left and my Aunt Mary to the right.  They were best friends as well as sisters, born about 2 years apart.  They could speak to each other in English, Polish or Slovak.