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[tacreload]

This old cemetery is on an old farm about a half mile from my house.As you can see the grave of Mary Chapman has been desecrated.The property belongs to my neighbor and she gave me permission to hunt there.She discovered the desecrated grave about a year or so ago while walking her dog.It made the local news around here and I had been wanting to find it and today I did.Whoever dug that grave up really had to work at it as the ground is pretty much solid clay and roots.Sick individuals walk among us.I noticed a lot of flat sandstone standing up which I believe to be home made headstones possibly for infants.The names have long worn off.At any rate I find it fascinating and wanted to share some history with you folks.

 

[Seanhagerty]

This isnt offensive. Ignore the troll.

 

[Hillbilly77]

There is a lot of local history where I live too.
There is a small cemetery around the corner that dates to the early-mid 1800's. My wife's family has been here since the early 1850's. I wouldn't doubt that there are some of her distant ancestors resting there.

I have always been interested in old cemeteries. Not in a morbid sort of way. Interested in the fact that almost 200 years ago, those people walked on the same soil I walk on, hunted the same woods, worked the same land, etc.

 

[pluspea]

This was the first post I clicked on and I'm glad I did, love history. There is a grave similar to this on the tva site norris lake, a town is buried underneath. One of the stones reads dyed 1800 something.

 

[Old Corp]

Always has interested me too. A few places that I've hunted, I've come across seemingly forgotten gravesites, often miles from any known roads.

Kind of a reminder that none of us are here very long. Not long at all.

 

[JcMack]

Forgive my ignorance here: It looks like the Chapman family plot, with a main, tall, square stone that has particulars about family members. Then family individuals have plain grave markers with their first name only on the marker? Does this sound right?

 

[rimfired]

I found it very interesting. We've got many small, family, military, etc. burial grounds/cemetaries going back, back, back.

Dastardly about the grave desecration.!!!!

 

[tacreload]

Forgive my ignorance here: It looks like the Chapman family plot, with a main, tall, square stone that has particulars about family members. Then individuals have plain grave markers with their first name only on the marker? Does this sound right?

That was my take on it also but I am not familiar with the burial practices of that time period.Different names on the one monument made it somewhat confusing.

 

[UncleEd]

Frontier graveyard in Schaumburg Township, northwest of Chicago, contained the stones of family children whom I suspect
died of typhoid. If I recall correctly, five children of one family, ages couple months to about five or seven years, all died within
days around 1835.

The site only contained one or two or possibly three families.

 

[Arik]

Cool!

I'm I'm south eastern Pa and around here there are a lot of old cemeteries dating back to pre revolutionary war. About 10 min from me is a revolutionary grave site with unmarked graves. Out of 20 some graves only one is known

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A friend of mine from high school lived on a old Fram land property that had the house dating back to 1700s and the barn to 1600s. There were a few grave stones just past his property that dated back to the late 1600s. It Was Hard To make anything out on them. On my way to my friend's house there is a church which is the 3rd oldest in America. Lots of old worn grave stones

 

[Ozark Marine]

Frontier graveyard in Schaumburg Township, northwest of Chicago, contained the stones of family children whom I suspect
died of typhoid. If I recall correctly, five children of one family, ages couple months to about five or seven years, all died within
days around 1835.

The site only contained one or two or possibly three families.

Are you thinking about the old grave yard that was located on O'Hare airport property? Off of Irving Park Road

 

[BigBill]

I find old grave sights very interesting. We pass by an old fenced in by
Pipe cemetery DEEP in the woods when we're riding off road in Otis mass.
It's very old but we never stop.

 

[Onomea]

With old grave sites, I feel, in addition to respect, a sort of affection for those who came before us. My wife worries about spirits, or ghosts, but I never have.

(But I do hope whoever desecrated that grave is haunted! That is low.)

 

[Grayfox]

Last year I was hiking the river bluff trail at Fort Pillow State Park. Unfortunately, everything has grown up to the point where the river is not visable from the trail. So when I knew I was close, I cut through the brush toward the bluffs. Much to my surprise I came across a couple of very old tombstones. Got to looking around and found about 8 to 10 more scattered around the area. Most were very hard to read, but from what I could tell they were from the late 1860s to mid 1870s. A couple had what appeared to be military markings on them.
It suddenly dawned on me that these people had survived the Civil War only to die and be laid to rest here a few years later. I found it quite fascinating as I was spending the weekend camping, hiking and learning about this area that was once a Civil War battlefield.

 

[Krell1]

i find it very interesting to see old graveyards like this. It opens up a lot of questions mostly about how these young people died. We forget that some of what we think are common illnesses were not so common back then. There are a few old graveyards near me that I've been thinking of checking out.

 

[federali]

Old Cemeteries: History as it was

First, you post is most welcome. If someone is offended, they merely have to move on rather than attempt to impose their will on all of us.

Old cemeteries are fascinating because while the march of progress changes everything around us, you may step into an old cemetery and you literally step back in time. Other than more recent graves, the cemetery is as it was.

I was entrusted with the keys to an old Jewish cemetery where I was permitted to take firewood from the largely unmanaged grounds. Some real interesting graves such as one burial just after WWI reading in part "died of wounds."

I hunted from a farmhouse with three grave markers in the front lawn and here in suburban Long Island, there' a small cemetery in the front lawn of a nearby home. For whatever reason, either the town or the county elected to remove the headstones but the departed are still in residence.

 

[shouldazagged]

Old cemeteries and historical sites, and the ruins of old houses, are my tickets to time travel, invitations to me to write their stories in my mind.

Other than my dismay about the apparent raiding of one grave, I can find nothing remotely offensive about the post. I found it fascinating and moving. A number of those were clearly the grave markers of children, a reminder that a great many infants and older children never made it to adulthood in those days. Again, stories write themselves in my imagination--some sad, some noble, some intriguing.

And always very respectful.

 

[O2Guy]

I enjoy walking through the real old cemeteries and reading the headstones. I try to imagine what life was like back then. To me, it's not creepy nor eery, just very interesting and thought provoking.

 

[4011]

First thought was a project for to clean up the area and make it better. Then the old unrestored look would be gone.

 

[tacreload]

Nearly 200-year-old grave dug up in Beaver County | Beaver/Lawrence Co. News - WTAE Home
After much searching I found the news link to this grave desecration.If any one is offended I ask the mods to please delete.