Griffin Cemetery

Washington · USA · Cemetery

Griffin Cemetery on Crab Creek near Ritzville, Washington was founded in the early 1900s, and most of those buried in it are children.

That is the entry. A burial ground in eastern Washington from that period, filled largely with children, records what happened to homesteading families on the Columbia plateau: influenza, diphtheria, accidents on farms, and long distances to any doctor.

On one child's grave the flowers are said never to die, and to be put there by somebody nobody sees.

A further account describes a figure that tries to make visitors fall.

The first of those is the one that has kept people coming. Fresh flowers appearing on a child's grave in a cemetery this remote, with no living family left to bring them, is either somebody's quiet kindness or something else.

It is a burial ground and should be treated as one.

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Hvor ligger Griffin Cemetery?

Griffin Cemetery ligger i Washington, USA.

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