Green Bay United Church Cemetery
I've spent a lot of time in cemeteries over the years, and not because I'm hunting vampires or hoping to get a front row seat for the apparently inevitable zombie apocalypse. It's because I believe that if you really want to understand someone's life, it helps to know where they were born, where they died and every detail you can dig up about their everyday circumstances and the milestones they achieved.
There is a lot you can learn from gravestones. Dates of birth and death are almost always present and, since they were inscribed at the time of the person's death, they can sometimes be more accurate than information in records found online. Where a grave is located can also tell you a lot. Often people are buried with or near other family members. There can also be poems or sayings inscribed on the stones that can give you insights into their personalities or beliefs.