The quickest way to learn firsthand about the history of a place — a city or region — is through its cemeteries. Walk among the gravesites, and you’ll see a story of a community etched in stone.
The pioneers who built it with their hands and fortunes and their sons and daughters, many of whom became the soldiers who defended it. Those families whose names now belong to streets and schools.
The faces, many of them unknown except to their family and friends, who gave the place character…