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You don't have any strange sightings around these parts
do you ? Or furniture moving around by itself ?
Sad that someone would disturb a grave site, much less
dig someone up who was resting in peace.
There are some sickos in this world.
Nice pictures.

Chuck
 
I have always enjoyed visiting graveyards and thinking about the history they contain. I have visited the grave of Charles Lindbergh a couple of times on a very remote area of Maui. A very secluded, peaceful and spiritual place overlooking the ocean, where I hope he found some measure of peace that seemed to elude him in life.

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Never remove anything from a grave site. Never remove a rock or anything on the surface of the ground. Spirits can come home with you through material things. If the place is haunted you can bring it home with you.
I never touch or remove anything.

Bill reminded me of a true story.
A childhood friend of mine broke into a poorly-secured mausoleum at the local cemetery and took a ring from a corpse within. A few months later, he was killed when the chain on the motorcycle he was riding broke and "wrapped around his ankle." Yep, supposedly impossible for the chain to do that. But, it did....
 
Here's the old cemetery about 3/4's of a mile down the mountain from me. It was started very early in the settlement of East Tennessee. The head stones are nothing more than flat stones picked up on an adjacent ridge (no rocks on this ridge). The marble stone to mark the cemetery's first resident was added more recently. Interestingly, members of the Fox family still live up and down this mountain side.

Ed



 
Years ago on a ranch I worked cattle on I found an old head stone. It don't remember the name but it was a young woman who had died in the late 1880's. It was on a hill over looking the Red River. I have always wondered what happened.

If you drive north from Gainesville Texas and as you approach the Red River bridge on I35E look to your west. You will see an old wooden box car and cattle pens where we loaded cattle. North and east of that location on the bluff is the grave site.


Sorry no picture, we didn't have IPhones back then. Good thing too. The old gelding that I rode would have gone bonkers if I had one and I got a call.
 
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Our local cemetery has markers going back to the Civil War and earlier. Often it's shocking at just how young many of them were.
My wife is there often tending to her Mom's grave and has adopted some WWII and WWI vets buried there. Nobody is left to attend them I suppose so she tends their plots and places flags she carries on Memorial Day for vets that get missed.
It takes her just a little time as she's there already.
 
I was in the coal creek area just above where I live and visited this cemetery a few years ago. I bumped into this fine man and we talked about the site, he was at a gathering of descendents of the miners lost in one of the worse disasters in mining history. The individuals in the pic were his relative, and he was kind enough to let me take a pic of him. The cemetery is named the circle cemetery, the miners left last words written on the walls of the mine. Here is a link is anyone is interested.
Cross Mountain Miners' Circle at Circle Cemetery in Briceville, TN

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A lot of cemeteries around here like that too, some of the graves marked with nothing more than a rock and the rest so old any writing on them has long since faded away. I think it is interesting and a testament to the people who lived and walked the areas we do today, just thinking that they would dig the grave by hand, build a casket by hand and then carry their loved one in it through the rugged terrain to the gravesite is just one of the many reasons I have the utmost respect for our ancestors. They were a different breed of hard working and tough people.
 
Historical societies

There may be an historical society trying to catalog cemetery sites-if they already know of this one they might appreciate help in restoration-My son and I spent years fixing up a tiny cemetery-we discovered that a number of Civil War, Philippine Insurrection period soldiers are there-
 
One I know of here locally--has only four men buried there. Three of them were Confederates--the last one was a man who seved in the Spanish-American War. If I had a camera? id take pics. The best I can do--once every so often--is to replace those little battle flags with frsh one(WHEN) you can find them?
This is loated somehwere behind the Constable office loated off of Leopard Street heading towards Calallen.
 
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