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The Oxen’s Tale #16 Part 2 of 2 Who is buried in Maiden’s Grave? By Frank Tortorich Some time around the early 1900s, an elderly woman came to the meadow near Tragedy Spring looking for the grave of her daughter who she buried at the base a pine tree in 1850. It was the intent of this woman to dig up the remains and taken them down to the valley for a proper Christian burial. The woman talked to some campers nearby asking if they knew of such a grave. It is assumed the woman mentioned the name of her daughter was Rachael. She recognized the meadow but could not locate the tree or the grave and left disappointed. Word spread of this woman’s grief. Guests of Kirkwood heard the story and one of them remembered that there was a grave but not in the meadow but two miles farther to the west. In addition, one of them remembered a wood marker, by now long gone, that had the name Melton carved on it. Now they took a leap of assumption and put together the names Rachael and Melton. This same guests had a granite headstone made and placed it at Allen’s grave in 1908. Sometime about 1913, a man named Steven Ferrari was clearing off some brush and dead fallen trees from the meadow. When the fire died down, under the ashes was the rock outline of the true maiden’s grave. The next time you take a ride up Highway 88, please stop at the Melton grave on the south side of the highway and then two miles farther turn off north onto the old highway at Tragedy Spring Road and look in the meadow. These places hold the corrective plaques placed there this year. |
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