For years, those connected with www.jameswhitcombriley.com have been concerned that there was no gravestone marker for the poet's mother, Elizabeth Marine Riley. The problem was there was no record of where she was buried. Her burial on a little bluff overlooking Brandywine Crick was one of the first in that cemetery and occurred in August, 1870, long before records are now available.
Now, an old photograph of the Riley lot at Park Cemetery in Greenfield, Indiana, permits us to know where the poet's mother was buried.
Photo from Indianapolis Star newspaper of July 26, 1925 before Reuben Riley's (poet's father's) gravestone was moved to its current location.
Note that grave of Reuben is placed where it is in this photograph. The stone has subsequently been moved and now is close to the big Riley marker. This placement of the grave of Reuben gives us probable cause to know where Elizabeth is buried, namely beside her husband as in the diagram below:
Before this information is lost again, how about it Riley surfers?
Should the gravestone of the poet's mother be marked?