supplications for the deceased

 

Religious statuary offers prayers of supplication for the deceased.  Family dynamics in the cemetery interest me.  Here grandmother, father and mother gravesites are marked with elaborate stones, yet what could be the only son's grave bears only a small metal marker.  This cemetery in Muleshoe is also called the "Old Cemetery" not to be confused with the newer memorial park on the other side of the highway.  The land was donated in 1918 for burials of victims of the influenza epidemic.  The cemetery was forsaken until acts of vandalism about 20 years ago renewed the cemetery association and interest in upkeep.  Alas, it was too late for the Rosas markers.

 

Old Cemetery

Muleshoe, Texas

8.29.2015