Sunday I attended the Wattersonville United Methodist Church for their annual Memorial Day Service. The church is a quaint little church that still has an old-fashioned out house and two pot-bellied stoves in the church. Great people there! They are a laid-backed group where a dog may walk up the aisle and lay beside the piano.
Beside the Memorial Day Service another service was being held. The service of an unknown woman. An expert in the field claims the skeleton to be of a 5’4″ woman that had had several children. If any records exist as to how the skeletal remains became to be at the Armstrong County Historical Museum they have yet to be found. The skeleton stood for an unknown number of years at the museum. Her remains stood upright, within a wood casket in a corner of the “Indian Room”. I agreed to work as the “curator” of that room and we all agreed that she needed to not be there.
She was cremated and buried at the Wattersonville Church gravesite. On the tombstone the words, “A MOTHER KNOWN ONLY TO GOD” were placed. Her stone was near to a Civil War veteran exclaiming the same. He, too was an unknown, but as a soldier. Civil war reenactors were present.
As I stood there she seemed to have been known to all in some interesting kind of way.