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After Walter passed away in 1983, Grandma wanted to go on a visit back home to Indiana, to visit the gravestones of her relatives, to see some cousins, and see the beautiful fall colors that she remembered. She couldn’t go on her own, so she asked me to take her.
By this time it was hard for Grandma to walk, and I pushed her in a wheelchair for most of the trip. It wasn’t hard, and we had a good time together. At the next New Years, for her wish, she wrote “I wish for David to take me on another trip.” Unfortunately she didn’t live long enough for us to do that.
We visited Grandma’s cousin Kennard Stout in Russiaville, Indiana, and he took us to the cemetery in Plainfield where several of her family members were buried. You can see pictures of their gravestones on this page. The picture at the top of the page shows her by the gravestone of her mother’s parents, the Kenworthys. We got to drive by the house where she was born, and where she lived with my grandfather when they were first married.
She wanted to visit Maine, too. Ron Morrell, a former pastor at our church, and a friend of both of us, lived with his family there in a little town called China Lake. It was good to see him, and I got to go to his church which was located in a beautiful setting on the shore of the lake.
In Maine we also went to see two women in two different cities. They were about my age, and had grown up in our church. They were both now pastors: Carol Marshburn and Ann Davidson.
This is the house in Plainfield, Indiana, where the Stout family lived when Mildred was born.
Mildred’s cousin, Kennard Stout, helps her walk in the cemetery.
The gravestone of Gertrude Stout, Mildred’s older sister, who died before Mildred was born.
When Harold and Mildred were married in 1926, this is the first house they lived in. It was a gift from her father, Lewis E. Stout.
Mildred visits the grave of Willis & Naomi Kenworthy, her mother’s parents, at the cemetery in Plainfield.
Mildred stands by the Jessup memorial stone in the Plainfield cemetery.
The gravestones of Frank and Tirzah Jessup, Mildred’s sister and her husband.
The gravestones of Lewis and Anna Stout, Mildred’s parents.
Fall colors in Indiana
The gravestone of Martha Stout, Mildred’s grandmother.
The gravestone of Silas Stout, Mildred’s grandfather.
This is the parsonage in China Lake, Maine, where pastor Ron Morrell was living with his family when we visited them. Ron was our old friend from Whittier, when he was on the pastoral staff at First Friends Church.
Fall colors in Maine
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