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Cemetery tours offer insight into area history
Krestine
Mother Francis and father Nikodem Krestine have a picture on their tombstone in the Timken Cemetery. Timken is one of the few places in the area with pictures on the stones. Many of the settlers in that area were Czech with names such as Albina and Lhotka. - photo by KAREN LA PIERRE
Each rich in heritage, area cemeteries are their own book telling the story of the harsh prairie life in the 1800s and 1900s in central Kansas. Not the scary places of movies or of tomorrow’s holiday, they are calm, quiet places of peace. Made from granite, marble, metal, limestone or even a simple board, these grave markers recount life from the days when one of every nine babies born died before its second birthday.