Relativitry

[gbyoung2]

This morning, I made a run over to the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA to check the route we'll be taking tomorrow for the interment of a relative there that passed away recently. While there, figured I'd check on the tombstone I had placed several years ago on the unmarked grave of another relative that died from the injuries he sustained during the Civil War. He was the brother of my great-grandfather on my dad’s side of the family. With other closer (family-wise) relatives scattered to the four-winds, no one else seemed to be interested throughout all the years that have passed, and that just didn’t sit right with me.

My 2022 Sport is in front of the Confederate Soldiers Monument Pyramid that is located in that part of the cemetery.

 

[ulflyer]

Good for you. All those lives lost senselessly and they need to be remembered.

 

[gbyoung2]

This was the grave marker I’d mentioned above. His brother Aaron Bell Young (also mentioned above) also served. He enlisted as a private but retired as an officer after the conflict. Pardoned by Pres. Andrew Johnson in 1865, he returned to farming near where he was raised in WV. I found his resting place when I was at a bike rally over in that area earlier this year.