Names, Dates & Age tell the Story.

NAMES, DATES & “Fraternal Brotherhoods”- Tell the Story in Stone- timeless.

Today, what remains of Bodie is quiet, silent.

Only by reading the Names, Dates & the occasional purposely place “fraternal organizational symbol” - can the silence be broken and a picture of remembering and understanding of the blasting, and constant 6 day a week -“loud and noise of Stamp Mill machinery.”

The 150 year old burials in the windswept- mostly snow covered hillside Bodie Cemetery tell actual stories with their , carved marble stone headmarkers

The graves were dug. Cold, frozen and below freezing wind chill-weather made some Interments impossible.

Winter burials were delayed for months, until the thaw made it even possible to think about braving the elements to conduct a Funeral.

Every tombstone was touched by the  families of the deceased. The “stones tell of actual death dates” and the Name and Age of the Miner, Wife or Infant Child.

The stones have remained, for over  a 150 years , and still stand and identify by name the person who lived and died in Bodie.  REST IN PEACE