“That Photo of Addie’s Open Grave Was Shocking and Sad…”

Refutation of Addie Hoyt Fargo blog dated 1/31/2012

Here we go again.  I don't understand why Rosemary cannot get it into her head that when all the materials in a grave are compressed into a 3 X 3 foot area that the original grave depth is impossible to calculate.   I guess that's because it lacks the drama she so strongly relies on to convince people that she writes the truth.........regardless of how far fetched it is in her writing.
Do what I suggested.  Take a probe to your local cemetery and start probing the graves from about 1890 - 1900.  Prove it to yourself. 
In deference to the funeral directors that state the grave could be 6 to 8 feet...... Really?  These graves were hand dug.  Apply some logic for a change.  8 feet in heavy earth is a two day job for two diggers and there isn't room for three diggers.  And did those funeral directors study burial standards from a century (or more) ago?  I doubt it.
I suspect, once again, that Rosemary has twisted the facts to suit her own story.  The idea of digging 6 feet to find a century old grave is prefaced by the notion the grave sank over time.  And if there had been a vault the sinking might have actually happened, in some soil types.  The soil content was very clay, not sand, in this location.
In this particular blog entry Rosemary confirms what I've stated repeatedly.  The first grave artifacts were found at 34 inches.  That should adequately refute Rosemary's claim there was only 18 inches of dirt on top of the coffin.  It really doesn't matter (unless you want to be overly dramatic) since it's clear that nothing was where it was originally placed.  Originally there probably was plenty of soil on top of the coffin.  Again............it's impossible to know the natural forces that moved the grave contents around.
I did notice a couple of the desperate housewives of Norfolk jumped on the grave depth.    That's cute...the real believers.....too bad they are so, so easily led of into the swamp.

Read my blog with the complete text of the passage in 'A History of Lake Mills' which is the only written historical record.  The murder rumor is just that..............a rumor.  The rest of the 'evidence' is circular logic that I will expose as time permits.

Rosemary's claim about a proper burial is unfounded.  The hardware is beautiful and I will post the pictures.  The casket had a viewing window for E J, and others, to see his wife.

It wasn't E J's job to get the burial permit, the grave was adequate considering, at the time, people who died of certain diseases got buried in a hurry.  And the claim that there was not a proper burial is unfounded.  Simply invented for dramatic purposes since there wasn't historical records other than the local newspaper.  I doubt the towns folk rushed out to the grave of someone who died of a dreaded disease.  Now would E J want to put these people at risk....but that's logic for you.....explains a lot of stuff.

Again, prying the jewelry from her cold dead body????  Who is Rosemary trying to fool; besides the desperate housewives of Norfolk.   Wedding jewelry is undefined in this blog.  For all anyone knows the jewelry is still in the grave.  Since Addie was ill and in bed it's unlikely she had much jewelry on.  Again, think about it.  And not all the skeletal remains were found.

There is quite a bit of history about E J Fargo all over Lake Mills in various references.  Mary Wilson tried to pull it together but it was not her goal to write a history of the Fargo's.  Rosemary is correct about one thing....."A History of Lake Mills" is the only historical reference that mentions the rumor that Addie died as a result of violence.............and that was hearsay.
E J was a pillar of the community and committed large amounts of his time and resources to better Lake Mills.  The list of his accomplishments goes on and on, along with the other Lake Mills Fargos.