For those of you that don’t live in Eastern Kansas, many of us are beginning to believe that
Kansas is the new Portland
You see, we’ve had at least 8 straight days of cloudy, rainy weather. If the Kansas City area ties the record of 10 days, then the forecast says it will be at least 13 straight days of rain. Last night, the weatherman said the chance of rain was very low for today. However, it is cloudy and my phone informed me that it will start raining this afternoon.
I was hoping that the rain would end so I could visit cemeteries this week. Since I’m spending the week in Kansas City to housesit my brother’s house and check in on my mom while he is taking a much needed vacation, I had these grandiose plans to visit all of the cemeteries where cousins are buried.
For my trip here, I decided to go thru Weston, Missouri and Leavenworth, Kansas to visit graves and try and find some other cousin graves. I knew that it had rained enough that I didn’t want to visit the rural Platte county, Missouri cemeteries, but I was hoping to visit Laurell Hill Cemetery in Weston.
Even though the forecast was for a 50% chance of rain, I was prepared. I packed by rubber snow boots so I could put them on to walk thru the high grass. (Remember, it’s been raining daily, making it difficult to get grass mowed.) When I reached Weston, I was thankful for those boots. Even though it was just drizzling, the grass was wet and my feet stayed dry.
By the time I reached Mount Muncie Cemetery in Leavenworth, the drizzle had turned into a light rain. On came the boots again along with a rain jacket as I located the graves of my second great grandparents: Hiram Currey and his wife Angelina Burke Currey.
While visiting these two cemeteries, I only visited those graves that I had previously been to. If it hadn’t been raining, I likely would have walked around the Laurel Hill Cemetery to find the Kirkpatrick cousins buried there.
So will I put those pages of cemetery data to work and visit the graves of these various cousins? Possibly, if it stops raining. However, if it continues raining, I may not venture out onto wet roads to tramp around a wet cemetery in my boots.