The informal service at Forest Hills on Friday went extraordinarily well. Thanks to family and friends who came out. Special thanks to Erin Brown Hastings of Beecher and Bennett, who made all the arrangements. Forest Hills faxed the documentation on the family plot, and requested Erin to find out from my Dad's relationship to the original proprietor, Margaret Forbes:
The answer is, she was Dad's great-great-grandmother--the mother of Robert Bennet Forbes. The cemetery opened in 1848, and Margaret purchased the family plot five years later, in 1853.
That's a long time ago.
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