Sunset Memorial

 

Bob's paternal grandfather, Augustus "A.B." and A.B.'s mother Victoria are buried here. The map indicates the lots where he and his mother are buried. Victoria Mease Gay, A.B.'s mother, married Harvey Hanson after A.B.'s father, George, died. Victoria is buried with her second husband. No one knows why she was called "Queen Victoria" though the 1880 census lists a white servant in her house.

Victoria's sister Octavia and Harvey's brother Charles (pictured) had been married for 30 years when Victoria and Harvey married.  

A.B.'s father George W. Gay was born in 1844 and died in 1899. George was the first husband of Victoria Mease. He was a miner. George married Victoria Mease on December 29, 1869. He is buried at Littlepage Cemetery (now overgrown) in West Charleston.