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These are just the thumbnails. The full size pictures are 1280 x 960. They link to my pics.livejournal.com album, so if you click on them they still won't be the maximum size.
The picture below this one is the top of this stone. And that's my mom, in case you're wondering. These next two are the same gravestone. |
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This one was blank on both sides, so I'm not sure if this is the front or back.
There were more than a couple of really small stones and this is one of them. edit: Oi, you guys need to change a couple things with this board. 1.) The flood control (you can't post a reply before 30 seconds) and 2.) the number of images we can post at once. 5 isn't quite enough, but I know that 20 is too much. So how about 10? Just a suggestion.
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I had to increase flood control but I won't say why, however I will increase the pic amount.
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Cool, thanks. :)
I'm wanting to go back to the cemetery again next week, but we'll see if it'll happen. I should take better pictures of these, if I can find them again. This cemetery is in the woods and there are 2 different areas, that we know of, with gravestones. We just happened to stumble upon the ones in these pictures when we somehow took a wrong turn on the trail, so there may be more that we don't know about. Makes you wonder, but I love cemeteries... especially old ones like these. :) By the way, the cemetery somehow became forgotten and unkept over the years, in case you were wondering why some are broken or knocked over.
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I think that's cool Tracy. I like cemeteries too especially old ones.
My parents live on a lake in a small town surrounded by trees. You have to drive down a dirt road for several miles from the main road. Just off the dirt road about 50 feet from the road and almost behind my parents home is a small cemetery. It's no more than 30feetx40feet. There are small simple stones on some of the graves. My dad took it upon himself to be caretaker for this cemetery. I remember it before they built that house and when I was a child we used to go there every summer. It was grown up and many of the gravestones were almost covered with sticks, grass, leaves, and dirt. My dad took care of that and cleaned the place up. He also marked and cut a trail and registered the graveyard. There are probably only 15 stone grave markers, but you can tell that some people's markers were probably built of wood and long ago decayed. When I was a teenager I did some gravestone rubbings of some of those grave markers. In this town where my parents live, my dad's family have lived for over 200 years. My ancestors were the first settlers of this county. They built a homestead to the top of a hill very near to this place. During the civil war many of the men from this small town in New England went to fight in the war. Some returned and some did not. This small town was once the largest in the area, but it never recovered from the losses of the men that they sent to serve in the army. Today acres and acres of farms are all gone and the place is a deep forest. When you walk around in the woods there you see stone walls that were built by my ancestors who long ago gave up farming. Sometimes I can feel them and I can wonder about their lives there.
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Hmmm...interesting pics from those savage days of the civil war...and to think there must thousands of those scattered all over America!
Me myself and i also likes the old cemetaries! we have lots of them here in the UK, especially here in East Anglia, but to many of them have been built over, or forgotten about within woods and undergrowth etc...dating from the likes of the Saxon and Elizabethan times!!! and up north a little bit in Yorkshire going right back to the time of the Vikings!!! I do wish more things could be done tho to restore these old cemetaries, once great lives lost in times so hard, and the inevitable truth that may lay beyond the old name on the grave stone could be that of ancestory!? or other untold mysteries??? facinating stuff :)
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