It takes some hard labor and detective work, but volunteers working at the West Side Cemetery have discovered pieces of Geneva history that have not been seen for decades.
For instance, Geneva History Museum volunteers recently uncovered an 1850s gravestone at the cemetery of a young girl named Kittie King.The dimension of the stone marker is 6 inches in width, with an epitaph reading “Our Little Kittie.”
Many old gravestones at the cemetery have toppled and settled over the years beneath the surface of the ground, volunteers said. The museum began the West Side Cemetery restoration project in 2019. To date, more than 200 headstones have been cleaned and restored, officials said. Volunteers would probe a grassy area and once they felt a tap from a stone surface they used shovels to uncover a missing headstone. Some of the grave markers weigh hundreds of pounds, officials said.
“It’s an expensive stone with all of the different fonts. It was found in pristine condition,” Howlett said.
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