Sunset . clw4-~ .N the May Sunsetof a year ago we de-voted several para-graphs to Memorial Day, quotingfrom epitaphs found in pioneercemeteries of Sunset Land. Sincethen, readers from every part ofthe West have written us of in-teresting old graves and head-stones until it begins to look asif we should have a regular grave-yard department in our otherwisevery-much-alive magazine. Of the cemetery stories re-ceived recently, none has appealedto us more than one sent in byMarcia Edwards Boyes of Pied-mont, California, in which shetells of finding an old grave onYerba Buena Island — the greatpile
Sunset . clw4-~ .N the May Sunsetof a year ago we de-voted several para-graphs to Memorial Day, quotingfrom epitaphs found in pioneercemeteries of Sunset Land. Sincethen, readers from every part ofthe West have written us of in-teresting old graves and head-stones until it begins to look asif we should have a regular grave-yard department in our otherwisevery-much-alive magazine. Of the cemetery stories re-ceived recently, none has appealedto us more than one sent in byMarcia Edwards Boyes of Pied-mont, California, in which shetells of finding an old grave onYerba Buena Island — the greatpile of rock that serves as theconnecting link for the new SanFrancisco-Oakland Bay on the sunset slope of theisland, looking out to the GoldenGate, is a neat military cemeterywhere rest sailors and marineswhose work is done. Accordingto Mrs. Boyes (we are quotingalmost verbatim from her letter)there are several civilian gravesin this plot, among them one ofthe earliest in Bay Region
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