Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 -Mason County Journal- Page A-17
The first gravestone
Einarsson, who died
were
Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
the city crew uncovered belonged to Allan John
while working as a Simpson Lumber Co. loader in 1925.
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"If someone reaches up and grabs
your shovel, I'm running," Heldreth
said.
Up came a second gravestone, rest-
ing against the first. It bears the in-
scription, "Father, James A. Sullivan,
1861-1925."
Both men are still buried at Shelton
Memorial Park -- with tombstones.
Cemetery records state that Einarsson
was born in Edinburg, North Dakota,
and died while working as a loader for
Simpson.
As for the bubbling water, the grave-
stones might have been used to cover
an illegal sump pump used to drain
water from a washing machine in the
house basement into the ground in the
alley, Birk said.
How did two gravestones end up in
the alley?
"I can't even speculate," Birk said. "I
wouldn't begin to know."
Garry Cunningham, the grounds
manager at Shelton Memorial Park
for the past seven years, also finds "no
rhyme or reason" for the theft of the
headstones.
"I imagine someone took them for
fill," he said. "There's no monetary val-
ue to them."
Brass plates have been swiped from
the cemetery, but local salvage busi-
nesses have been alerted not to buy
them, Cunningham said.
Two drunk drivers have plowed
through the cemetery chain-link fences
and demolished headstones as well, he
said.
As for the unearthed headstones,
they will be crumbled and buried, Cun-
ningham said.
He shows a visitor the grave-
stones that now adorn the final rest-
ing places of Einarsson and Sulli-
van.
"They both received upgrades," he
said.
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