First stop this morning was the Evergreen cemetery, where we discovered that the weathered gravestone we thought was Elizabeth Doxon’s was actually for her son William’s. It had a CSA 1861 -1865 on the stone, but I have found no record that he was a confederate soldier. I did find a record of William G. Doxon being mustered into the Union Army on September 2, 1862, and mustered out on October 2, 1862, so he may have decided to join the Confederacy at that time. We found a similar stone for John Doxon, who died in 1863. Again, no records indicate where he served.
Cemetery records indicate that Elizabeth is buried nearby, but it seems there is no longer a marker to commemorate her life or death. She outlived all of her children except Louise and William.
From the cemetery, we drove to the Cincinnati Natural History Museum, where we viewed a notable variety of exhibits. First, inside the door, we found dinosaurs – big ones, little ones, and middle-sized ones.
Next, we found beautiful photos, excellent taxidermy, and live specimens of the life in the woods around Cincinnati. Akalena spent a great deal of time communing with the snakes.
Finally, we watched the first moon landing, programmed and drove a Mars rover, and jumped around in an exhibit showing how the universe bends and curves around objects with very strong gravity.
And of course we finished up with a visit to the Museum Store.
I spent one last afternoon in the library archives photographing a few last documents. Tomorrow we head for Pennsylvania.