CHILDREN OF GARRISON CEMETERY

The following children of B.C. and Alice Berry are buried in the Garrison Cemetery in Oklahoma.  These graves went unmarked up until 2010.  I don't know why there was never any markers put on them.  I always thought it was a shame for them to be remembered is this manner and I always got a weird feeling when I thought about them being there but not known.  So I started researching death records of Alfalfa County and recruited the help of my late nephew, Ed Brown.  The only death record was for Elsie Pauline when she died in an accident and the remaining three were found by searching cemetery records.  I found their records but no dates to go with them.  Thankfully Ed's mother, Vernita, had kept records of all of them, names, month and year.  Ed had to do a lot of searching through things Vernita had left but finally we came up with everything.  Along with that, Ed, God bless his soul, made four or five trips from Wichita to the Garrison Cemetery and met with the caretakers  for us to make the final arrangements for these headstones to be put on them.  I couldn't have completed all of this without Ed's help.  Alva Monument was exceptionally nice to us and even gave us a special price when he found out what we were doing.  Anyhow, now they are very nicely marked and will always be remembered.

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