Cupar and area volunteers have spent
untold hours, days, weeks and maybe even years compiling a map of the
Cupar Cemetery. It remains a work in progress but is still useful at
this point. A draft can be found on the Sask cemeteries website.
Eventually a completed copy will be housed at the town office, as
well as the Cupar museum. A copy will also hopefully be at the
cemetery site.
I was searching a family member of my
husband: his father's mother's father's brother's daughter.
Now that is confusing. I could say my
husband's great grandfather's brother's daughter or my husband's
grandmother's uncle's daughter. Did I get that right? I do better
with diagrams.
Anyhow the point is I found Annetta's
obit from 1914 and wondered if she was buried in Cupar.
Some of the headstones at the cemetery
are deteriorating badly, and can only be seen if the light hits it
just right, or if you do a rubbing with onion paper. I was fortunate
to have the exact location from the map. Although difficult to read
it was the correct headstone.
So how did I really get to this point?
Well, I was thinking about our finished summer display on the early
days of Cupar. There are quite a few photos and items on the early
business men, but what
about the pioneers' children?
What
about the ones that died in those early years? How can we remember
and honour them? I have found a number of obituaries for these
children and have been trying to find their headstones. This is of
course an ongoing project that will take time but I have started.
