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2 There are five graves inside the Circle. Grandfather Walden's, his younger son by his third wife, Will, who a boy of 17, I think died of typhoid fever in De Moins, Iowa where he had gone to find a job--and found it--when Father insisted he support himself. Father had kept him and Ambrose, his older brother and "the old woman", as we always called her after she married Old Yankee Wilson for her second husband some months after Grandfather had died of cancer of the stomach in (?) (see family bible) I knew of the 3rd grave, but don't know its inhabitant. Can't recall the circumstances of its being there, except that he was no relative. The two other graves are friends--at least acquaintances--of Frank's and he got $5.00 apiece for the lots when they were interred, at intervals, I take it, and were friendless and not much account and had to be disposed of somewhere, somehow. The information I was after, I got because I wanted to sell off enough lots to buy Frank a hearing aid. But he says there is so much vacant land that there is no chance for a sale. So ends that! I put an ad in the Sun, offering his Schick