Monday, 22 October 2018

Surprise United Cemetery


This pioneer cemetery is near Richmound, Saskatchewan.



A friend refers to these wood-and-wire fenced graves as "cradles to Heaven."



It is just a little east of the Alberta/Saskatchewan border in a community formerly known as Horsham, now a ghost town.  There was a church at this site but it is now long gone.



This is spring at the country cemetery . . . green, lush and Heaven-bound.

- Michael Truman

5 comments:

  1. Why Surprise? Was that the name of the church? Odd name for a church, if it was.

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    1. "Surprise" was a settlement but all that came of it was a school, post office, church and cemetery. The cemetery is all that remains.

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  2. Maybe folks were surprised when they ended up there.

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  3. Believe it or not, I know someone who comes from Horsham.

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  4. Not a surprise that these are great photos. Also I am missing green scenery! Everything this weekend was brown.

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