Any one else have an old graveyard?

[Steppenwolfe]

Did you look at the link I posted? If you click on the cemetery in blue it gives you all 6 names and a little info about each one. 2 of there kids are in another cemetery.

Yes, I did. On some of the smaller, older stones there are several children. We even found a few that say "dog" , Seems no one new after the mid 40's.

 

[tcreeley]

As a kid in the Berkshires on the lower edge of a field bordering ours, and along side a brook on a little rise, there were three head stones, two smaller and one a bit larger. I always thought a man must have lost his wife and two children and picked the prettiest spot to place them, where he would always pass by. I never could read the names, but they were the loneliest graves ever, only approachable through the fields. In the time we were there, I never saw anyone come to visit them.

Up here we have many small graveyards- on connector roads that people could get to walking.

 

[Clint S]

We have one right up the road that has a few head stones and a few that just have flat rocks placed in the ground as headstones. I have relatives in it and visit a few times a year. Our town crew is overstaffed so they mow once a month or so

 

[Clint S]

We have one right up the road that has a few head stones and a few that just have flat rocks placed in the ground as headstones. I have relatives in it and visit a few times a year. Our town crew is overstaffed so they mow once a month or so

I did a search and here it is. My great, great grandmother was a Minkler. She thinks there are other relatives in, the fieldstone graves

Voorhees Road Cemetery - Oswego County, New York

 

[Jstpssng]

I know of a couple of single graves of children who's parents were just passing through... one is on the Moose River about 25 miles from the nearest town of Jackman, Me; yet the American Legikn still maintains it. Also another of a soldier who died on the march to Maine's famous "Aroostook War"... someone stole that gravestone but it has since been replaced.

 

[KTurner]

That is a great idea for a rainy day. From the looks of the cemetery, I don't think anyone has touched it in many years. You can barely walk to it. Our plot plan did show a cemetery, but this one is quite a distance away. There are also other, older headstones, that can barely be read. We plan on cutting a path to it and fixing it up. After all, they took care of this land before me, and deserve the care now. By the way, don't you just love Henry County? We've only been here 7 or 8 months, but it has quickly become home.

Thanks for stepping up and taking care of it, and that goes for the others on this thread also. The cemetery I've been trying to find (for years) was used by my family from probably about 1850 to at least the 1890s and probably about 1930. I believe it is the final resting place of my 2nd, 3rd and 4th great grandparents (along with aunts/uncles/cousins including at least 2, maybe 3 civil war soldiers). If someone had continued to do a little maintenance on it every decade or so, it probably wouldn't be so lost/forgotten.

I was born in Henry County, but moved away when I was about four. I go back a couple times a year to visit family. My roots in Henry County go back to at least 1800, possibly before Henry County was formed (1777). It's very different from the coast, where I've lived since moving from Henry. I'm used to flat land, salt water, rivers that are miles across and having to buy rocks. We head out that way and see hills, rivers you could walk across, old buildings that would have long ago been torn down to make way for a 7-11 in my area, rocks everywhere and red dirt. Oh yea, and fairy stones Have you gone fairy stone hunting yet?

Keith

 

[Pharm]

We have a old family graveyard on our property. My Great-great-great grandfather and grandmother, great,great grandfather and grandmother, and others in the family are buried there. The oldest gravestone is of a daughter that died at 21 in 1849. Starting with my great-grandfather they started using the town cemetery.

I still maintain the graveyard. It gives me a great sense of connection with members of the family that came before me (our farm was settled by my ggg grandfather in 1814.) It's humbling to think that I'm still tending in some way to relatives that came before me - even though I don't know them at all except through letters that they left. We're only here a short time on this earth ... better make it count. Life's too short to be mean.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

There is a small cemetery at the corner of my land. But the town took over ownership of all the private cemeteries, someone from the town comes every two weeks or so and mows and it's not my land. The headstones are from the 1800's, one name is the same as the guy who cuts my grass, another is the same as the guy I buy lumber from. My ancestors bought this land from the Indians in 1675, and it became part of Plymouth Colony, but in 1695 they were convicted of heresy by the Puritans and stripped of their lands. My ancestors were moved to the church graveyard in town.

My mom was still bitter about this.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Thanks for stepping up and taking care of it, and that goes for the others on this thread also. The cemetery I've been trying to find (for years) was used by my family from probably about 1850 to at least the 1890s and probably about 1930. I believe it is the final resting place of my 2nd, 3rd and 4th great grandparents (along with aunts/uncles/cousins including at least 2, maybe 3 civil war soldiers). If someone had continued to do a little maintenance on it every decade or so, it probably wouldn't be so lost/forgotten.

I was born in Henry County, but moved away when I was about four. I go back a couple times a year to visit family. My roots in Henry County go back to at least 1800, possibly before Henry County was formed (1777). It's very different from the coast, where I've lived since moving from Henry. I'm used to flat land, salt water, rivers that are miles across and having to buy rocks. We head out that way and see hills, rivers you could walk across, old buildings that would have long ago been torn down to make way for a 7-11 in my area, rocks everywhere and red dirt. Oh yea, and fairy stones Have you gone fairy stone hunting yet?

Keith

Nor fairy stones yet, but my wife is quite keen on going. This is beautiful land and very nice people. We are on the northeast corner of Henry county near Lake Phillpot and Franklin county. I worked on a project in Norfolk last fall, several weeks. I sure did miss the mountains.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

We have a old family graveyard on our property. My Great-great-great grandfather and grandmother, great,great grandfather and grandmother, and others in the family are buried there. The oldest gravestone is of a daughter that died at 21 in 1849. Starting with my great-grandfather they started using the town cemetery.

I still maintain the graveyard. It gives me a great sense of connection with members of the family that came before me (our farm was settled by my ggg grandfather in 1814.) It's humbling to think that I'm still tending in some way to relatives that came before me - even though I don't know them at all except through letters that they left. We're only here a short time on this earth ... better make it count. Life's too short to be mean.

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Life is but a flicker of a candle flame... Hard sometimes to always be nice when so many others aren't. Even though they're not our relatives, I still respect they took care of this land before me. Still sad it has been abandoned, but we will clean it up.