| Show R werenaware of this till the earth caved in resulting ingaping hole in the ground the swing was immediately removed In Motherback yard now there are still some Italian prune and some early apple trees Sometimes we pickfew to make sauce or uncooked jams but usually Whenwas young prized the blue the fruit of the tree at the back of the tree house they built in the tree The she gives the fruits away plum jams Mother made from lot my children remember the tree finally died probably the result of being too full of nails and nail holes which invited insect occupantsTrees were often planted as memorials Following World War three blue spruces were planted on the lawn of the library in honor of the three soldiers from Mt Pleasant who died while serving their country overseas Today few people know their history or why they stand lonely sentinels ofnearly forgotten era Mother remembers one Arbor Day when her father took his two youngest daughters Louise and Winnie across the road from their homestead and helped each girl planttree in honor of the day and of their people Nearly eighty years later we tookpicture of Mother in front of the then-towering trees They too are gone When irrigation ditches were removed several years ago easily accessible water for them was no longer available and they perished In cemetery cemetery renovated about 1886 the city placedtimber fence around the The following spring shade trees were planted in the In the late 1930s-early 1940s the cemetery was the stream running through it was moved into another channel androck fence was built around the sides Companion trees were planted along the cemetery roads In the cemetery itself some trees have been planted as living memorials 49 |
