Grave Of Rebecca de Mendes

My Rosamond-Hodge kindred ended up with property that once belonged to Rebecca de Mendes in Sount Carolina.

Jon Presco

Row 8, plot 85. With the coordinates in hand, it should be simple to find the grave of Rebecca de Mendes Benjamin. But the sun has set over the Dispersed of Judah cemetery, the moon is reduced to a crescent, and an ominous chill has settled in over otherwise warm-blooded New Orleans.

Ethan points a meager flashlight borrowed from the bed and breakfast to the ground and miraculously finds a marker for row 9. We move to the right, closer to cemetery wall, shining a small halo on the path, hoping to find row 8. No such luck. But wait! There’s row 10: The rows are numbered north to south, not east to west. We scramble off in the likely direction of row 8.

I had come here earlier in the…