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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday, Skagway, Alaska





Seeing this gold rush era cemetery in Alaska inspired me to investigate the family story of an ancestor's participation in a gold rush. See the story of George Emerson's trip to California as a '49er HERE.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday, Skagway, Alaska", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 20, 2010, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/04/tombstone-tuesday-skagway-alaska.html: accessed [access date]).

3 comments:

  1. Skagway probably recieves more rain than snow, and these are wooden boards, not stones.

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  2. It looks like a beautiful and peaceful resting place for these souls!

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  3. What an awesome-looking cemetery! I can't even begin to imagine conducting a burial in such a rugged place! Absolutely gorgeous blog, by the way! I'm so enjoying poking around!

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