NANTICOKE, MD Day 2.  We ventured out around noon today while it continued to rain.  We went to the new Holloway Funeral Home to find out the location of my mother's parents' graves.  We are related to the Holloways, so their funeral home did all the funerals of family members.  Once we were given a printout of the necessary information to show the cemetery office, we drove a couple blocks up Snow Hill Road to the Wicomico Memorial Park.  The woman at the cemetery office provided us with a map of the grave sites and placed an "X" where my grandparents' graves were located.  Once we found it, I was surprised to see that they had a large gravestone with simply the surname, Parker, engraved on it.  Denoting the two individuals buried there were two additional stone markers in the ground.

"X" Marks the Location of Grave Sites

Two Extra Stone Markers at Foot of Each Grave

Overhead View of Two Extra Stone Markers
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View Over Tombstone Toward Schumaker Road. 

I was only nine years old when we moved to Florida, so any visits to the cemetery by my mother and her mother to place flowers on my grandfather's grave were done when I was a small child; thus, I have only the sketchiest memories of sitting in the car while they walked to the grave site.  I had always wondered where it was, and while here I satisfied my curiosity.

Our Former Residence on Right

After this visit, we drove to Old Ocean City Road where we used to live.  Since we left in 1958, a new road to Ocean City has been built, a very attractive divided highway with thick trees between the eastbound and westbound lanes.  One can virtually cross the Eastern Shore of Maryland now from the Bay Bridge on the west to Ocean City on the east without seeing anything more than trees.  In the meantime, the old Ocean City Road, with a few exceptions, has suffered from neglect, even though the new Perdue Farms, Inc buildings are located there.  Our former residence and our former next door neighbor's residence are among the exceptionally well kept homes.  My father built that home in 1947.  The home of the farmer who lived to the other side of us has been torn down and his fields grown over with weeds.  Very sad to see.

We only had time to do some grocery shopping before it turned dark.  Driving back to our campground in the dark along Nanticoke Road was a challenge.  Hope to get an earlier start tomorrow in better weather.