2019-07-21 Tinker Hill
July 21, 2019
January 12, 2025
On our way home, from picking up Brian and Jessica at the Bozeman Montana airport, we stopped at the Tinker’s Hill cemetery. See 2019-07-20 Bozeman Day 1 and 2019-07-21 Bozeman Day 2.
Outside of Gardiner Montana is their historic cemetery, Tinker’s Hill. I like old cemeteries, for me they are a reminder of harder times in our countries history, looking at the dates and ages, most of the older occupants had relatively short live spans as compared to today. Occasionally you can even find famous and not so famous characters of the old west. It is especially interesting when you know a little bit of the local history of the area.
Pretty new sign.
My favorite grave fences are the wrought iron fences. I do like this wooden fence.
My favorite grave fences are the wrought iron fences. I do like this wooden fence.
Lone unmarked grave.
Unmarked grave
Looking uphill
Fenced and un-fenced
This monument reminds of the one in the cemetery at the top of Kebler Pass in Colorado.
“As you are now, I once was.
As I am now, You shall become.”
This monument reminds of the one in the cemetery at the top of Kebler Pass in Colorado.
This has an old date on it, but it does not look that old.
I meant to get a photo from the side, it looks like a log.
Neat wooden marker.
Neat looking wooden marker.
Gardiner Montana from Tinker’s Hill Cemetery
Gardiner Montana in the background.
I think this is the coolest headstone in the cemetery.
We found one headstone with an older date on. But this is hand scratched into a native rock!
This fence has the most obvious marks from being worked by a black smith.
There are several unmarked graves.
Scott must be a family name. They are a few different markers with that name on it.
You can see the black smith’s hammer marks on the fence in the back.
I like the iron fences, most of them are ornate.
I did not notice the name on the headstone on the left. Hope that is not a bad omen! But then I guess you would have to believe in omens to have that really bother you.
Quite a few gravesites have replacement headstones. I like the fences around the gravesites.
Old marble headstone with an even older grave marker.
A lot of the headstones are getting weathered pretty badly.
Gardiner Montana in the background.
Tinker’s Hill Cemetery
Why is it round?
Why is it round?
I like the rock work.
Mark
I am a retired computer programmer. I like camping, hiking, and before my knees got bad backpacking.