Old cemetery on my parents land

[oneflycowboy]

There is a small cemetery on my parents property. I was out there looking at some of the headstones. I could only imagine the lives these people had.

One person in particular witnessed a great deal in her life time.

This person lived during the civil war and was old enough to remember it. She lived long enough to witness WWII as well.

I often wonder what her life was like.

A few other pics

This guy is the oldest one here

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I love old cemeteries! When I see the names and dates, I also wonder what kind of a life they had.
There was an old coal mining town which turned into a hippie town across the mountains northeast from here.
That town is Madrid, produced Mad-drid. The cemetery there is also interesting.
They've got a regular traditional section, then they got the hippie section. You probably already know what section this pictures from.
This guy was apparently an electrician who liked Beer.

 

[Coaltminer]

These are extraordinary pieces of history. Here in WV, I've seen many old plots, none as nicely maintained. There's one in Mason County from the 1800's with 3 young children. Also a mule in the same cemetery. I can't think of a better way to pay homage to our ancestors than to combine people and beloved animals. Whoever they are, may they all rest in peace.

 

[jrm53]

The cemetery is beautiful, are your parents keeping it up or are some of the original families still around and keeping it nice? Some times around here where I live we sometimes have vandalism such as pushing over stones. Your folks are to be comended for keeping it nice, I take care of a cemetery here and have since 1968 or 69. Jeff

 

[shouldazagged]

In a small town in central Kentucky where I lived for a few years there's a woman's grave in the town cemetery that's rather puzzling. It gives her name and dates (as I recall she died soon after the turn of the 20th century), and one word in large letters: "KEPT".

I've often wondered about that.

 

[oneflycowboy]

The cemetery is beautiful, are your parents keeping it up or are some of the original families still around and keeping it nice? Some times around here where I live we sometimes have vandalism such as pushing over stones. Your folks are to be comended for keeping it nice, I take care of a cemetery here and have since 1968 or 69. Jeff

Thanks! Dad's 80 years old and mom is 74.

Sometimes I wonder where they get their energy to do it all...

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Thanks! Dad's 80 years old and mom is 74.

Sometimes I wonder where they get their energy to do it all...

It does look good! Most of them out this way don't have any grass, many get no maintenance.
And You got some really nice tombstones.

 

[Frank237]

On a piece of property I hunt there's an old wooden (oak) marker with the name, dates and "Killed by Indians". If I recall correctly the death year is 1876. I always visit it when I'm in the area...and wonder exactly what happened to the poor guy.

FAR tougher times than we have now. Simply enduring a Montana winter is enough to kill a guy.

 

[Jessie]

I have an old one on my place too. Hasn't been kept up in decades and the realtor said he knew some of the family and nobody is left.
It looks like only two families. Its old with a few small nameless children's headstones. Probably died in childbirth. One caught my eye that had broke and fell over that says " he's not dead, only resteth".
They are all 1800s and early 1900s.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In 1967 my dad had to work out of town and would only be home every other weekend. So mom, my brother and I would go to drive-in movies or have picnics alot. We were driving up a country road and mom pulls over and said, that this farm was a friend of hers back when they were in High School. There use to be a cemetery around here someplace. We saw a few trees that were all grown up around them. As we explored that area we found head stone among the grass. So a couple of weeks later we used a push mower and got a path down the center of the grounds. It is an area about 75 feet square. as the summer rolled on we cut back brush and mowed grass. The City has grown up around that area and now an office park is all around "The Pioneer Cemetery" now, but at least it well taken care of. There is a freeway between it and the river it originally overlooked, but when I drive by, I always feel very content or blessed, knowing we did right by the residents.Ivan

 

[Mcwsky09]

My grandmother was born in December 1915 and passed away yesterday.
I believe that she lived through a period of human history where more things changed in more ways through ever level of society that most any other 100 year lifetime and she and many others 80 and over I have met seem to be less accepting of change than most younger people I know especially those who grew up with a tv in every room.

 

[recurve]

This is behind our house on the neighbors ground. Old.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I know it's hokey, I know it's a tourist trap.
But I love this cemetery!
Boot Hill, Tombstone, Arizona.
And this is the Tombstone that I like the best.

 

[rburg]

One of the best cemeteries I've ever seen is in Silverton, CO. The best part is they often include cause of death on the headstone. Things like "died in snow slide" or "froze to death".

Best ever is in Tomichi Cemetery. That'd be just west of the pass (which is just west of Hancock Pass). There aren't many tombstones visible, but the one says "Killed by dynamite explosion".

You see, in the old west, meaning late 1800s, they had a custom of including the cause of death. These days that wouldn't be PC.

 

[Jessie]

I know it's hokey, I know it's a tourist trap.
But I love this cemetery!
Boot Hill, Tombstone, Arizona.
And this is the Tombstone that I like the best.

That's funny, the same thing is in a cemetery in Skagway, Alaska.

 

[1morethan8]

On a small hill in Hancock County, Georgia there is only one grave sitting among the trees. The property is known as the "Old Brantley Plantation", the house is long gone, and not even a road near by and a walk is needed to visit my Great-Great-Grandfather's grave...

 

[Onomea]

...That town is Madrid, produced Mad-drid...

I passed through there, 22 years ago this August. It was hippyish back then, too. But kinda charming as well. Had a cold beer in a bar/cafe along the main drag there that went down well, and then it was back on the road.

Hadn't thought about that place since until I saw your post.

 

[steveno]

my mother was born in a small town that doesn't exist anymore and some of her relatives are buried in the Swedish Cemetery close by. there was a lot of Danish people in the area and they had their own cemetery just across the road. nobody remembers that there was any bad feelings between the two but everybody that remembers anything said it would have been war if somebody got buried in the wrong cemetery.

 

[Col]

Les More--I first saw this quote on a Tombstone in the early 1970's, in Virginia City,Nevada. I don't know if the original is real or just a nice saying that many cemetery's have since copied? If its real which was the first one?
I looked on-line at Storey Country Nevada, where Virginia City is located, I could find no historical record of a recorded death for
Lester Moore. I may call them and ask about the Lester Moore Tombstone.

 

[Col]

1morethen8-
What great history that is Tombstone is, he died in 1828 Amos Brantley.
It seems there is a tombstone flat on the ground. Is this upright tombstone
newer them 1828? When was your Grandfather Born?
We don't have much in Colorado traceable to that far back, 1828.
Good Picture.