Griffin Cemetery

Washington · United States · Cemetery

Founded in the early 1900s, and most of the people in it are children. The flowers on one child's grave never die.

Griffin Cemetery on Crab Creek near Ritzville, Washington was founded in the early 1900s, and most of those buried in it are children.

That is the entry. A burial ground in eastern Washington from that period, filled largely with children, records what happened to homesteading families on the Columbia plateau: influenza, diphtheria, accidents on farms, and long distances to any doctor.

On one child's grave the flowers are said never to die, and to be put there by somebody nobody sees.

A further account describes a figure that tries to make visitors fall.

The first of those is the one that has kept people coming. Fresh flowers appearing on a child's grave in a cemetery this remote, with no living family left to bring them, is either somebody's quiet kindness or something else.

It is a burial ground and should be treated as one.

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Griffin Cemetery is in Washington, United States.