Saint Joseph County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Gongwer, Andrew 
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Lois Harriman http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00029.html#0007242 May 19, 2011, 11:16 am

Cemetery:           Parkville Cemetery
Name:               Andrew Gongwer

Date Of Photograph: April 28, 2011
Photo can be seen at:
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    ANDREW GONGWER
        DIED
    FEB. 26, 1881
        AGED
   77 Y's 10 M's
      & 16 D's

Blessed are the dead which die
in the Lord from henceforth: Yea
saith the Spirit, that they may 
rest from their labours and their
works do follow them.

Additional Comments:
West facing, tall marker with a open Bible and hand pointing to heaven design 
at the top of the marker located just west of the driveway edge and slightly 
north of the center of that row.  The bottom part of the marker has cracks 
radiating upward on the left and the right.  It may have taken a hit or two 
during the vandalism of the cemetery.  

Update:  Feb. 2012:  both of these markers are now east facing instead of west facing.  They were toppled over last summer when a large tree fell on them.  Whoever set them upright again changed the direction that they were facing.


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