Michael Shanley's grave

Following from my previous post on Michael Shanley, I have been looking forhis grave for some time. He was buried at the St Patrick's Cemetery, Olyphant - the cemetery itself is not down in the town, but up on the hill to the north, off Route 6.

After many searches, and with the advice of Uncle Frank Shanley, I decided to have one more trudge around the cemetery at Christmas (while Hilarie stayed warm in the car). My strategy was to look at every headstone with a 'Veteran' flag affixed to it, and after trudging in the freezing cold for some time I finally found it.






I'm a little confused about the two headstones. The 'stone' at the bottom is actually iron. It appeared to be quite old, though it's difficult to imagine it is one hundred yeras old. The upper stone seems very new.