Today, Tami and I met up with her friends she works with and took part in a cemetery walk in Forest Grove. We boarded buses that took us to the Mountain View Memorial Gardens Cemetery where we were able to learn some history about the early settlers of Forest Grove who were buried here. Volunteers were dressed in period clothing and stood at various tombstones. They portrayed the person who was buried at that site, telling us how they came to Forest Grove and what it was like back in that time period, which was less than 200 years ago.
This gentleman had a particularly interesting story to tell about the person he was reenacting, who was literally his grandfather, Dr. Robert Nixon. His name was Dr. Robert Nixon III. His grandfather, whose plot he is standing on, relocated to OR in 1880 and opened his dental office in Forest Grove where later his son practiced dentistry and then his grandson, who you see standing her and telling the story.
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