Graveyard Girl

06/13/2026

Everyone meet my new pets!
Two little boy kittens!
🐈🐈‍⬛🩷🐾

06/13/2026

It’s not very often that I get to see photos of the folks whose headstones I’ve cleaned. It truly brings their story to life. Here is a rare instance:

Lucretia “Ceet” Ann (Gould) Mills
Born February 6, 1834 at Sodus, Wayne County, New York, USA
Died January 16, 1921 at Star Prairie, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Age 86
Buried Riverside Cemetery at Aberdeen, Brown County, SD
Mother to at least eleven children.

Headstone cleaned 6/12/26 in her memory
Rest in peace. 🪦🌹🙏

Images found on Find a Grave

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Charles Orange Mills
“Killed by a Train 🚂 “

Born December 30, 1858 in Minnesota
Died June 30, 1909 in Minnesota City, Winona County, Minnesota
Age 50

Obituary:
"Killed While Walking on Track.
Charles O. Mills, an ice dealer of Proctor, this state, was killed by a fast passenger train on a hill near Duluth. He was walking on the track
and stepped aside when a train approached from behind him, but did not get far enough away. Mills was single and fifty years of age."
-New Ulm Review, (New Ulm, MN) Wednesday, July7, 1909 Page 3

Buried at Riverside Cemetery Aberdeen, SD in the Mills Family Plot

Headstone cleaned today in his memory.
Rest in peace.

06/12/2026

“The Wall That Heals is a three quarter replica of the Vietnam Wall in DC. And it travels around the United States,” Parks, Recreation & Forestry Director, Kristin Zimmerman said.

06/12/2026

Remember the post a few weeks back about Walter Mills the 12-year-old boy who was kicked by a cow and died?
The headstone was cleaned today in his memory.
Rest in peace.

At Riverside Cemetery
Aberdeen, SD