By ABEL GUSTAFSON
DCN Correspondent
Taking the road less traveled may sound poetic and appealing, but sometimes it is a synonym for hard work. Such was the case for my Dearly Departed assignment.
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By ALI DRAVES
DCN Correspondent
I first walked around Park Hill Cemetery and looked for interesting headstones. I noticed Anna Eleanore Berglund’s immediately because it had a beautiful floral design, and she was surrounded by other family members’ tombstones. I found this comforting and very intriguing because of the way they were arranged and presented; father and mother in the center and smaller children’s headstones behind them. After picking a name, I went to work. I immediately went on the Web and tried to find whatever I could on Anna.
By CORY CLAESON
DCN Correspondent
The short life of Ernest William Boerner seemed to be that of a typical blue-collar man in Duluth.
Today, Ernest’s grave is located in Forest Hill Cemetery on Woodland Avenue. His cause of death is unknown.
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By VERONICA WILSON
DCN Correspondent
The assignment began at Park Hill Cemetery. I traveled to the back of the cemetery to find my list of five names, and that is where I found the stone of Edwin William Bergh. His was the first name that I wrote down, so I decided to go after his past.
By RYAN HANSON
DCN Correspondent
Dear Mr. Bruce Johnson,
I found your name on your parents’ grave in Park Hill Cemetery. It said you were the first Minnesotan killed in the Vietnam War. I didn’t know much about you before, and unfortunately, not much has changed.
By CHRIS OLWELL
DCN Correspondent
Swen G. Swenson was born on May 11, 1902, in Klagstorp, Sweden. He had immigrated to the United States by 1920 and by 1930, he married. She was an older woman, Margret O. Swenson, and they were living by themselves in Minneapolis.
By DAVID BUCKNER
DCN Correspondent
My research on Emily Mattson was unable to account for some details, but I was surprised at how much I was able to learn about her and her family with nothing but a name and year from which to start.
I started my research in the Park Hill Cemetery. I noticed Mattson’s gravestone because she was born 100 years before I was. Her gravestone had her name (Emily Mattson) and the years she lived: 1886-1951.
By SARAH DOTY
DCN Correspondent
The wind whistled through the Park Hill Cemetery on Sunday, Feb. 10, as I braved the nearly minus 50 degree wind chills. I was on a hunt, but I wasn’t sure what for…yet. I was bundled from head to toe; yet the instant I stepped out of the car, I felt as though I was wearing nothing. The wind cut through my layers and instantly froze my exposed skin.
BY EMILY ESHELMAN
DCN Correspondent
Walking through a cemetery, searching for dead, researching facts and names, all to bring a person’s story to life; it sounds like a Halloween thriller. It is actually a reporter’s way of researching people who have passed on.
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By SARA HEDBERG
DCN Correspondent
As I looked into the past of Locke M. Perkins, (Oct. 11, 1910- Jan. 18, 1961) I found out that he was a citizen of Duluth who was avidly involved in civic and professional groups in the community.
By: VENESSA OSTERGAARD
DCN Correspondent
Stanley Mosiniak was buried at Calvery Cemetery in Duluth, Minn., (St. Louis County) on March 2, 1972. He was 59. When looking for information on Stanley, I found much, MUCH more on his mother, Mary Ann (K) “Marianna� Tobola.
BY JAMI REINHART
DCN Correspondent
Trudging through snow with a temperature below zero, searching for names and dates on headstones in Park Hill Cemetery. While every name and date has its own story to tell, finding the few engraved details of Helmer A. Peterson urged me to find his story. Or at least try.
By KRISTEN KREBS
DCN Correspondent
Section M, block two, lot 23. A grave site seems inert by its definition and geographic description, but to uncover the story of whoever lies below it is a process that proves anything but a lifeless being buried below the ground.
By JENNA BOYUM
DCN Correspondent
To prevent myself from freezing my butt off, I set out for Forest Hill Cemetery on Friday afternoon right after class. The weather report indicated that this was my only chance to comfortably scout out a good grave.
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By DONNA O'NEILL
DCN Correspondent
Where Nellie Adeline Smith’s story ends is where mine begins; it was a Sunday in February with a high of zero.
By KENDRA RICHARDS
DCN Correspondent
My first step for any story is always Google. I discovered the Web site http://bioguide.congress.gov that provides biographies about every congressman since the beginning of Congress. Since Melvin was a congressman, it was here that I found a general overview of his life.
By KATHLEEN GRIGG
DCN Correspondent
A trip out to Greenwood Cemetery is well worth the drive. Located south of Superior on Wisconsin Hwy. 35, it houses grave sites dating back to the early 1900s.
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By TYLER DOMAAS
DCN Correspondent
"The American people have lost the last personal link with the Union Army ... His passing brings sorrow to the hearts of all of us who cherished the memory of the brave men on both sides of the War Between the States." — President Dwight Eisenhower
BY JORDAN HANSON
DCN Correspondent
Walking through Incarnation Cemetery in Roseville, Minn., I was looking for something special.
After a couple minutes, I came across a tombstone that caught my attention. It was the middle of winter, near 10 below, and there were flowers at the foot of her grave.
By SARAH HASSELQUIST
DCN Correspondent
My search for names in the graveyard brought me to a headstone bearing the names of a couple: Per Eric Okerlund, born Jan. 25, 1852, died Nov. 6, 1906; and Eva, wife, born Dec. 26— or perhaps it was 28, I couldn’t quite tell which it was on the stone—died Jan. 3, 1943.
By JARED JACOBSON
DCN Correspondent
Axel A. Edman was born on June 6, 1867. He died on Dec. 7, 1946. I know this because it says so on his gravestone. Of course, it was going to take more than a gravestone to learn who Axel was.
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