History in my back yard pic heavy

[gdnagle]

I wonder if they are related to Johnny Appleseed. I knew a fellow that was a distant relation that lived in MD.

Just imagine how many settlers and trappers that just died on the way west and were never buried or had wooden markers that have long since disappeared.

To me a burial site is sacred ground not like kids nowadays that want to destroy them. As families grow old and separate most don't even know where their ancestors are buried.

 

[shouldazagged]

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To me a burial site is sacred ground not like kids nowadays that want to destroy them.

It's not just "kids nowadays". Cemetery vandalism and grave robbing go far back in history, though I don't know why in the case of the wanton destruction. When I was a boy, seventy years ago, there were people tipping or breaking tombstones.

It made no more sense then than it does now. What is the point? But then what is the point of any vandalism? I just don't get it.

 

[Broke Hoss]

Years ago, we attended a very small country church in a small community just outside Abilene. The church "adopted" the gravesite of 2 girls that was just across the highway. The graves are adjacent to the roadway & marked with stones that had been knocked over years before. Both are identified by name, but only 1 has a birthyear due to being unable to read the original stones. The best we could determine there are 2 versions of how they died:
1. (Most likely) The girls became ill & died while traveling with a wagon train.
2. They were killed in an indian attack while traveling through the area.

The church purchased the modern monuments. But unfortunately it was damaged in a car wreck before the area was protected by a fence.

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