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Foster Freeze

Foster

I asked A.I. about this photo, and we had a long, bizarre conversation about it. In the end, I learned nothing about this Foster plot. I did however learn about Ray Foster, buried in Oklahoma, who died at just 50 years old when he had a heart attack while eating potato chips he had just purchased. Ray Street, near the above photo, is what led A.I. to believe the Oklahoma Ray Foster is buried in both places.

Anywho, chatting with A.I. is like speaking with an occasionally brilliant child who has a quick, usually incorrect, but always confident, answer for everything.

Gathering of the dead

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Mt. View Cemetery (Ashland, Oregon)

Ashland’s (Isaac) Hill Cemetery

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Cemetery on Emigrant Lake

More details about this place can be found here and here.

Seven years ago this month…

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♥ tree

Today’s photo was taken in Ashland’s Mountain View Cemetery in November of 2011.

Flashback Friday

Death's cold embrace

Short life, large tombstone

Not my favorite time of year, but it can sure be pretty sometimes. Today’s photo comes from almost eight years ago, and the subject matter is from about 110 years ago.

Archibald Malcolm (1845-1907)

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Ashland’s Mountain View Cemetery in autumn

Why don’t parents name their kids Archibald anymore?

Mountain View Cemetery on a foggy morning

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Mountain View Cemetery (Ashland, Oregon)

Happy Halloween

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Mountain View Cemetery (Ashland, Oregon)

Ashland Cemetery on a foggy morning

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Tombstone of Captain Thomas Smith

Ashland is apparently a smoky mess these days. I’ll be back in town in a couple weeks. Hopefully the skies will clear up soon. Today’s photo is from a foggy morning rather than a recent smoky day.

This headstone is rather interesting. It seems like the writing wasn’t completely planned, and the engraver added some words in after the fact. If you can’t read the words, try clicking on the image while on a larger screen.

Capt. Thos. Smith was born on the 14th of September in 1809 in Campbell, Kentucky and died on the 4th of November in 1892 in Ashland, Oregon. According to this site he did more than hold the savages at bay. He also started the Bank of Ashland.

Another foggy cemetery scene

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Ashland Cemetery

And the Mayan Apocalypse begins…