In early April 2013, I was working on improving the conditions of Old Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Indiana. I started working on this project in February which included cleaning, resetting, repairing, photographing & mapping the entire cemetery. One saturday morning I was set to clean and reset the stone of Salome Price. The stone had been laying on the ground for many years and the lawn mowers had helped it sink to the point that the grass was beginning to grow over it. So I got all the soil loose around the stone and lifted it up and upon looking at the backside, that had laid in the dirt for many years, I discovered names and dates. I found the broken piece and unearthed it, brushed off the dirt, and put the puzzle together to read:
Sarah B Price - Dau of E.B. & S.J. Price - Born Oct 21, 1871 - Died Apr 9, 1875
Well I knew right then that I had to make sure the stone was reset for the right person that was laid to rest there. So I wrote down all the information and when I got home that evening, I began researching the names. It just so happens that my friend and fellow Find-A-Grave Volunteer, Paula "Whispers from the Graves" Jackson had made the recording for Salome on Find-A-Grave so I contacted her and told her of my findings. Paula said to email her my photos and she would see what she could find out. A couple days later Paula emails me with wonderful news! Paula had been researching and came across a newspaper article for Sarah B Price. What we believe happened was that when Salome passed in 1857, she was laid to rest in Barnes Cemetery, just a couple miles south of Old Riverside
Sarah B Price - Dau of E.B. & S.J. Price - Born Oct 21, 1871 - Died Apr 9, 1875
Well I knew right then that I had to make sure the stone was reset for the right person that was laid to rest there. So I wrote down all the information and when I got home that evening, I began researching the names. It just so happens that my friend and fellow Find-A-Grave Volunteer, Paula "Whispers from the Graves" Jackson had made the recording for Salome on Find-A-Grave so I contacted her and told her of my findings. Paula said to email her my photos and she would see what she could find out. A couple days later Paula emails me with wonderful news! Paula had been researching and came across a newspaper article for Sarah B Price. What we believe happened was that when Salome passed in 1857, she was laid to rest in Barnes Cemetery, just a couple miles south of Old Riverside
When Salome's husband Daniel passed in 1868, he was laid to rest next to her and a new stone was put in place so that both of thier names was together. Not sure where the old stone was stored but when lil Sarah B Price, granddaughter to Salome & Daniel, passed in 1871, the family used the backside of her grandmothers old stone. When the stone fell over, it landed with Salome's name up and so was recorded as Salome being buried there instead of Sarah. Now that the mystery was solved I preceded to clean, repair, & reset the stone. On a side note, Sarah's maternal grandparents had lived in Pennsyvania all their lives and when her maternal grandfather passed away, her maternal grandmother Elizabeth Boadwee moved here and when she passed away, was laid to rest beside Sarah. So Sarah has her paternal grandmother's old headstone and she lays to rest beside her maternal grandmother. Big Thanks to my friend Paula Jackson for helping me make things right for Lil Sarah B Price.