I drove to Spokane to visit dad on Thursday, December 17. Friday morning at 9 AM we arrived at the home of Maggie Rail who voluntarily acquires and maintains records of several hundred pioneer cemeteries around the United States. I got her name from the website for Addy Cemetery. A while back I emailed Maggie asking whether she had a map showing the locations of burials within the cemetery. She did. She also had a cemetery record listing information about Caspar Albert and Peter Staheli.
Our purpose in visiting Maggie was to get copies of her records. Using my digital camera I photographed the large cemetery map and Maggie made copies of the burial records from a book.
In the spring, dad and I will return to the Addy cemetery to determine the location of the graves of Albert and Peter. My plan is to eventually place a marker on their graves. As the patriarch of the Staeheli's in America I believe Albert deserves to be recognized and remembered.
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