She passed away in 1854. Of course, we couldn't read what was written on the stone, we had to show it to someone who knew and understood what it meant.
The name of Şamlar Village comes from a region in Damascus. When Fatih Sultan Mehmet conquered Istanbul, people from there settled there, and that became the first settlement, and the name came from there.
The area that is now submerged used to be a big neighborhood. It reappeared when the water receded. My father, grandmother, and grandfather, all our elders were in that cemetery, but we later relocated them."
