In addition to selling cemetery lots, scheduling burials and maintaining paperwork for Burlington’s three city-owned cemeteries, sexton Holli Bushnell is digitizing cemetery records, which date back to the early 1800s. Her predecessors and volunteers had chipped away at the task, entering information from alphabetized burial cards into a computer database. They’d gotten as far as the Ms when Bushnell took over early last year. She soon noticed a fairly common practice. Some women’s first names didn’t appear on the cards. They were recorded only as their husbands’ wives: Mrs. Hiram Wilkins, Mrs. David Anderson, Mrs. Clifford P. Bacon. “I got mad,” Bushnell said. And she got to work, delving into Vermont vital records, findagrave.com, newspapers.com and ancestry.com to retrieve the names, update the records and cement each woman’s place in history. A flurry of typing can usually turn up a first name — sometimes middle and maiden names as well. Bushnell, who is still working on the project, enters them all into the database and then handwrites them onto the cards. “These women existed,” Bushnell said. “Even if their information is on a stone, they deserve to exist in our paperwork, too.” Bushnell calls them the Lost Ladies of Lakeview, though her project also includes those buried in the much-smaller Greenmount and Elmwood cemeteries. She has completed the 20,000 burial cards — including updating the work of her predecessors — and moved on to the cards recording the ownership of burial lots, many of which have the same problem. So far, she’s identified nearly 100 women. In addition to adding their full names to city records, she calls them out on her Facebook page and in TikTok videos, reintroducing them to society in a fashion they never could have fathomed. “Eva Phyllis Yandeau Bean, no longer just Mrs. John Bean,” she posted on Facebook on March 8, International Women’s Day, “you’re a person with a name again and you’re remembered.” “Capitola E Rabideau Blow and Theodorah Capitola Blow Kingman,” began another post, “a mother and daughter who are no longer only their husbands’ wives.” Still another: “Hannah Wilson Woodbury and Pauline Livona Darling Woodbury, you were more than the wives of powerful men.” Pauline’s husband was a Vermont governor in the late 1800s, Bushnell noted. “You can google it if you want to know what his name was.” Most women’s first names do appear on their grave markers,…