In 2013 I trekked to the northern part of Pittsylvania County to visit the graveyard at Siloam United Methodist Church. On the return trip I noticed a small family cemetery that looked too old and interesting to ignore. What caught my eye were the shapes of the markers and the symbols decorating them.
Because the Berger-Dickenson cemetery is on private property I parked on the side of the road and took a few photos from a distance. There were many other graves that I would've liked to have seen up-close, but I didn't want to risk trespassing.
Mabel Berger was the intended focus of this entry, but over the years I haven't been able to find out much about the the infant's brief life in Oklahoma's Sac & Fox territory or how she died. For that reason I held off on posting all of the photos of this graveyard…until now.
at Sac & Fox Agcy. Ind. Ter.
Mabel was the daughter of Thomas Carson Berger and Rose Martha Graves Berger, originally from the Toshes area of Pittsylvania County. There was a paragraph about T.C. in a genealogical record of the Nowlin-Stone families that explained the Bergers' business in Oklahoma when Mabel was born.
Here are just a few of the other markers in the cemetery.