Details, details, the devil is in the details

Yes, I've been working with those pesky records again. Well actually today started off with trying to formalise my thoughts for the tour this weekend-- I ended up with WAAAY too much stuff-- it would have been like a Death by PowerPoint presentation so folks, I'm not going to do that to you. Instead I turned those notes into five pages (OK 8 pages) of new stuff for my research paper. Thus I am inflicting the boring stuff on my professors and not on you. You're welcome. I figure I might live longer that way-- can't you see the headlines?

Anthropologist Lynched by Enraged Tour Participants!

Windbag Gets Her Wind Knocked Out!

 Boredom Kills Tourists, Tour Guide (film at 11).

So the numbers and the evidence is piling up. There are a LOT of people buried at Reilly Cemetery if I'm halfway right. Yes, a lot of the names are familiar but there are a lot of names that seem to have come and gone, and there are some truly tragic stories in those records. Take the Lambert family-- three generations and their name effectively wiped out in the area along with 9 family members and 1 servant. These get mentioned in various places, well the family does, but the servant, no. His name was James Gundy and he was 17. They lived in the Township of Masham but their place of burial is NOT specified (guess which denomination was doing the records?) Me, I'd be burying them where the house was but chances are they are at RC. No proof so they are on the likely but not definite list. (Edit 12 July 2012-- I went back and counted the dead in this particular record, 9 people died in the fire, 8 were Lamberts, previously I had accepted the counts of others and written 9 Lamberts. Note to self, always check the original document, sigh.)

Yes, I am working on more lists for your reading pleasure, but they are going to have to wait to be posted until I have submitted my report and hopefully, gained the approval of my much esteemed and greatly loved professors (grin). Yes, they read this blog.

Yet another reminder that there will be parking behind the barn just west of the cemetery, stay right. There are no facilities there so be prepared. It's also deer fly season, don't say I didn't warn you. Sturdy shoes and long pants are recommended as things are still pretty rough in places.