Finding a Connection
Shanna Riley January 30th, 2008
When snapping the graves at Greenwell Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, I initially thought nothing of the graves of Dawn Marie Bayhi and Brittany Michelle Darone, other than nothing they were both young, pretty women who died entirely too young. Dawn was thirty-one years of age, and young Brittany only thirteen.
Still, I never would have realized there was a connection between the two women (their graves are not together or even that close by one another) had I not done some research on Dawn's death when entering her onto Find A Grave.
Often, if a person - especially a young one - is recently deceased (in the last five or so years), I will attempt to do some research to see how their lives ended. Sometimes I can add some information about the person onto their FAG bio page, others it is simply to satisfy my own curiosity. Any death is tragic, but it is especially so when the deceased had so much life ahead of them left to live.
It was with sadness that I read that Dawn Bayhi, a young wife and mother, was killed in an automobile accident; the shock came when I read that her young niece, Brittany Darone, had also been injured in the same accident and died later at the hospital. Had I not done some research, I never would have realized the two poor souls - who did not share a common surname - were related or had died together from the same tragic accident.
I had snapped photos of both graves - making sure to get a clear shot, as I always try to do, of the photo on the grave - never realizing the two were connected by family and tragedy.
There are so many stories connected to the headstones in every cemetery you step into...most you will never even know.
- The Dead
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