Very cool!!! I’ve got some pics of this as well as some of the other headstones at the Protestant cemetary. If you notice, many of them are for kids. Really puts into perspective how hard life was in the Keweenaw back in the copper boom days.

I seem to remember reading something (maybe in Hobart’s book) about a flu epidemic that killed a lot of people at the Cliff.

And I thought I was the only one on this board who takes pictures of headstones…..

Timbers… nope. I have also been taking pictures of headstones lately looking for mine accident victims related to the Phoenix Mine. And to Jay, yes, it was in Hobart’s diary of a schoolmaster that he sadly mentions his students suddenly dropping dead; very sad, yet common. History is fascinating, and that’s why we all gather here!

I too photograph headstones… or not stones, sometimes. My current favorite one is Joseph Schick at the south cliff cemetery. There’s a long series of comments there about the beautiful ground cover you can see in the photo, too.

Ok, it has been a couple years, but

as you work your way up the trail, it bears left up the mountain, and there is a cemetery in the trees, to the LEFT off the trail, about 1/3rd to 1/4 of the way up the Cliff. Is that the same cemetery?

That’s the one John. If you follow the trail it will take you to the mine ruins.