Please help

[+MattandLaura]

What is the story behind Jenny and Tommy Elliott?

 

[+Navdog]

That is a mystery to me also. Strange place for a memorial. I e-mailed fractal but heard nothing back from him. Spent some time on a google search but came up empty.

 

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[+fractal]

Sorry for my lack of reply...

 

Honestly.. I don't know the story either. I'm guessing it was some sort of car accident though.

I came upon the site by accident when placing the cache.

It's just one of those things that you come across that makes you appreciate life. I thought I would share this site with others by placing the cache nearby.

 

-fractal

 

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[+Quantum Mechanic]

What are you all talking about?

 

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[+pdxmarathonman]

...until I realized that Navdog hadn't logged the Contact Cache.

 

Care to elaborate Matt?

[+MattandLaura]

sorry all, I guess that was a bit vague. We went out to do Fractals OHL #3.1 Spruce & Cloutrie. There was a memorial to Jenny and Tommy Elliott who died there in 1996. It sounded like a mom and son death. We were wondering if anyone knew what happended to them.

 

[+Bodoni]

I took some pix of the site and will post them if fractal gives his okie-doke. They don't give much away, but they sure let you know you're in the right area.

[igor71]

When I discovered the memorial, my understanding was that Jenny and Tommy had died nearby in an auto accident.

 

Certainly startling (and a bit creepy) to run across this in the thick of the woods.

 

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[+Navdog]

You see roadside memorials for accident vitims all the time, but this was odd because of the location so far from the road. Makes you wonder if there was some other circumstance involved. I found their names on the SSDI list (Social Security Death Index).

 

J.A. Elliot - Born 7-23-62

 

Thomas C. Elliott - Born 11-27-85

 

Both died on 5-20-96

 

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[+fractal]

quote:

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Originally posted by Bodoni:

I took some pix of the site and will post them if fractal gives his okie-doke. They don't give much away, but they sure let you know you're in the right area.

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Feel free to post the pics. Just let everyone know it's a bit of a spoiler.

 

-fractal

[+Bodoni]

Now don't be looking at these unless you don't mind a bit of a spoiler. Here are two pix from near the cache.

[+Zzzoey & illDRIVEuNav]

I read this thread and looked at the pictures, and it made me sad, but intrigued, so I tried to find some info about Jenny and Tommy too. No luck! Nothing! I found the same SS info Navdog found, that was all. Both applied for SS#'s in Oregon. So nothing really. That makes me even sadder. That two people (probably mom and son) died there and someone loved them and misses them so much they have that memorial, yet we -in this information age- can't even figure out who they were! It was only 1996!

 

I thought about doing a locationless of all those memorials along the highways and roads, usually crosses. But then... well... I thought about it, and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to have folks stopping in the road at PROVEN dangerous places to snap pictures. Wouldn't want anyone ELSE to get hurt just searching them down.