On Tuesday we drove to Charlotte from Florence, SC, stopping to visit some Gilmer cousins in the country near Kershaw. We arrived in Charlotte late in the afternoon to visit my sister Alice and her husband Jerry for 3 days. They recently moved from Fayetteville, NC to Charlotte to the South Park area to be near their 5 grandchildren. Their sons Alex and Andrew and their families live close by and the grandchildren gets lots of TLC from their grandparents. They stopped by after dinner on Monday and we all had watermelon for dessert. They came for pizza dinner on Tuesday night. They will grow up too soon. Their parents used to visit us when they were young and their kids remind us of them so much.
On Tuesday, Jim and I visited the new Billy Graham Library near the airport. What a tribute to a great man. I'm glad he is still living and got to see the library and other buildings completed. The home was one his father built when Billy was a teenager and was relocated from a dairy farm in South Charlotte. The barn behind the house is where the exhibits are located. You walk through many, many "rooms" where there are photos, videos, etc. 
displayed showing Billy Graham's life. Someone did a great job putting all of this together.
Ruth Graham is buried in a quiet garden near the library. A brick pathway leads downhill to her gravesite. Soft religious music is piped into the garden.
While in Charlotte we visited Oaklawn cemetery where 
Jim's biological mother (Dorothy Carnes Gilmer) and his brother Ronald are buried. Jim's mother died when he was 8 and his brother was 14 when his bicycle was hit by a car as Ronald was returning home from his paper route.
displayed showing Billy Graham's life. Someone did a great job putting all of this together.
Ruth Graham is buried in a quiet garden near the library. A brick pathway leads downhill to her gravesite. Soft religious music is piped into the garden.
While in Charlotte we visited Oaklawn cemetery where 
Jim's biological mother (Dorothy Carnes Gilmer) and his brother Ronald are buried. Jim's mother died when he was 8 and his brother was 14 when his bicycle was hit by a car as Ronald was returning home from his paper route. 
We left that cemetery and went to Harrisburg to see the graves
of Jim's father and step mother Mary. Took a picture of the Gilmer home at 311 Plaza Dr, which was sold recently. Jim and Larry never lived there. Their original old homeplace was a small frame house near Harrisburg that was moved in 1954 when a new house was built. That replacement home was torn down about 1980 after they built a new home at 311 Plaza Dr. The original old home place is still there and is a used car lot office. He was able to identify the rooms. It is still on property where they lived when Jim was growing up.
We left Charlotte Wed. morning, heading to Greensboro to visit another ister, Susan and her husband Bob for 3 days.
