There is no Memorial Day parade this year. However, we hope you can visit Silverbrook and honor our Veterans, who have flags marking their individual graves. New service flags are also flying in front of the Abbey. We value their service to our country.
Be safe and enjoy the holiday.
Below are some photos from our recent tour of Silverbrook Cemetery hosted by the Niles History Center and Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery.
Silverbrook Cemetery has over 21,000 graves, but only 13,000 photos in our Flickr archive. Also many of those that we do have need to be reshot because of stone restoration, poor picture quality, or recent engraving.
You can help. You can download a report of Graves with No Photos for a checklist. This will help guide you which photos can be shot in which sections of the cemetery.
If you have just a few photos, email them to our Photo Editor. If you have a lot, please share with us your Drop Box or Google Drive folder with all your photos you'd like to see here. We'll take care of the rest.
Thank you!!
Neal Mikel, cemetery superintendent, built this new memorial to the Staples Family fencing that was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not, which blew over in a storm in July. Our Friends of Silverbrook group designed and purchased this informational sign, complete with photos of the fencing in the tree and photos on it's back side of the tree that fell.
Neal cut the fencing piece out of the giant tree stump and created this memorial on the Staples family plot.
Visit the Old Ground, Section 4 area and read about the corner's history. You can see the new sign from Cherry Street, across from the City water tower.
Thank you Neal!
Related article: Tree, fence forever united at cemetery
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