This tiny cemetary is just north of Many Island Lake...
...on a hillside in a shallow valley...
...near a long flat rock pile.
Small crosses made of rebar mark the graves and define the borders.
The sign is only about three by four inches in size. Someone remembered.
There are five members of the Schimdt family buried here including the children who succumbed to the flu epidemic in 1918. After much hardship and heartbreak the remaining family moved to points unknown in the U.S.A.
Information courtesy of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society.
Photographed in southeastern Alberta on May 27, 2017.
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