Coming into the Beaver cemetery on Memorial Day is quite an experience! Many people have erected full size flag poles by family plots, and along with all the flowers it is a wonderful and beautiful and awe-inspiring sight!
Jeannie's Father's (Edward Thompson Murdock's) grave
While I was arranging the flowers and taking the pictures, an older lady approached me and asked if I was related to "Toss" Murdock. She grew up in Beaver and knew Jeannie's Dad. She moved to Cedar City about the time that "Miss Gaddie" came to Beaver to teach school, and she heard that Toss and Miss Gaddie had married and lived somewhere in the South. She shared some experiences, including one she and her fiance had with "Johnnie" (John R. Murdock, Jr., Jeannie's grandfather) in his drugstore in 1945 or 1946. Sharing more information, it turned out that she was also a great-granddaughter of W. G. Nowers and in Cedar City knew Barbara and Fred Adams and lived around the corner from Dixie and Lee Morrell (Barbara and Dixie are Jeannie's cousins). It is, indeed, a small world!
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