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Well, we survived the shutdown of spring 2015 and had to go do something else for a change.  The decision was to go visit some of my long departed relatives up in Earlville, Iowa.  That is about 200 miles about Nauvoo.  So, we headed up there Saturday morning with a brief stop at Costco since it was on the way and at the 100 mile mark, a good time for a break.

The Lorum Joel and Joel Seger monolith monument.  The small headstones in front are for various members of the family.  Grandmother, mother, father, Alfred, Addie, and another set of mother and father "stones".  Not sure who is under which mother/father stones but I can guess.

In addition, we found several other headstones for other Segers that were listed as well as some others that were listed in files for the cemetery.  We also found several of their kids headstones there.  All in all, a good day.

My Great Great Grandfather/Grandmother (Sarah Akin)

My Great Great Great Grandfather/Grandmother.  We're not sure how Mattie Orcott Muzzy figures into things but there is a stone on the ground that says "grandmother" so we're thinking that is for her.  In this case, it would be her.  May be Hannah's mom but that is just a guess.

There are two other sides but one says, "Gone but not forgotten" and the other lists two of Lorum's children that died at a young age that I didn't know about.  At any rate, pretty cool stuff.

BTW, one thing about back in Iowa, everywhere you drive, there are cemeteries and they are huge!  Cemeteries in the West are small and there aren't very many but out here they are everywhere and just hundreds of headstones, all of which are above ground and are really big.  I guess if you gotta die, you need to go out in style...or something like that....