(Written in 1995 by Paul Edgar Brown)
When Bette sent the three cemetery books to me she had a note thereon something of this nature: "Now let's get into this..." I didn't know, for certain, whether she was telling me that I should die and get into the cemetery as I had lived too long as it was or whether she was telling me that I should go through the names and write something about each.
Since I think it is best for me to write, instead of using my space in Augusta Cemetery, here are brief statements, as I remember, or think I remember, the people whom I know and are now residents of Augusta Cemetery. The statements have not been checked - they are only what I recall of the different individuals.
Baughman, Jesse F. and Myrna A. Leatherberry
Brown, Harley Loyal and Edith May Erb
Brown, Harry Joseph
Brown, Ina Geneva McGranahan
Brown, Wayland M. "Buster" and L. Marie Leatherberry
Cook, George Elgie
Crawford, William M.
Johnson, Lila
Kinsey, Thomas James Campbell and Emma Cleo Hiner
Lafferty, Margaret
Leatherberry, George M. and Josephine Whiteleather
Leiper, Samuel
Long, Orville N. and Minnie M. Brannan
Manfull, Eli and Adaline Norris
Manfull, Emmett LeMoine
Manfull, Royal G.
McGranahan, Diana Turnipseed
McGranahan, Henry J. and Mary J. Stitt
Miller, Pearl and Nora Leatherberry
Sheckler, Ralph H. and Jessie B. Ward
Thompson, Addison D. and Ollie E. Manfull
In closing these remarks my fingers are becoming clumsy and ineffective in finding the right keys on this computer. I strike a "d" for a "c" time and again. And it is all because I have lived too long and remember too many people who now lie in the Augusta Cemetery.
While it was nice to recall something about so many friends who are no more, you should be reminded that this account was written rapidly, entirely from memory, which at times is extremely faulty. I hope you understand this as you read, if you do read, these remarks.
It is wonderful to remember so many good people.
Paul E. Brown