Greenwood Cemetery - Picton, Ontario, Canada
Destruction of cemeteries is a painful process for the family members whose relatives’ grave markers have been harmed. Is the thrill of doing something bad and maybe never getting caught what gives the perpetrators the right to cause this harm? Does being disrespectful of other people’s property ever cross their minds? In June of this year, the 140 year old Glenwood Cemetery in Picton, Ontario was vandalized with headstones and monuments nearly being destroyed and 150 of them being toppled off their foundations. The cemetery estimated it would cost $150,000 to make all the repairs. Fund raising has begun. Fortunately, my friend and helpful research colleague in Picton, John D. Lyons, went to the cemetery to inquire about Branscombe family records only to find out that their headstone had been harmed. Buried in this cemetery are Gena Branscombe’s father - Henry William Branscombe, her mother – Sara Elizabeth Allison Bransco...