OMG..I THINK WE FOUND A GRAVE IN OUR BACKYARD! "UPDATE PAGE 11"

[Whispering Winds]

I love old cemetaries too; we have some really nice ones around here, and both of my families are buried in very old ones, back to the revolutionary war . . .grave rubbing is a very fun thing to do, know people who do it and LOVE it. There is a house in not far from where I live that has the old man buried in the back yard. Gives people the creeps, but he isn't going to hurt anyone . . .very nice stone, wealthy old man. . .some of the stones in these old cemetaries around here had to cost a LOT of money back in the day. We have a lot of little bitty burial sites around here too, even had a really bad deal last year just a few miles north of where we live as the crow flies, where a farmer went to the county board and got permission to dig a pond by a cemetary, and after he built this beautiful pond, the board came back and said, "uh-oh, you just dug up 2 acres of cemetary." So, it caused quite a stink for awhile, although it wasn't "used", it was on the other side of the fence around the graveyard, he had to give it back and fill it in . . .turned out to be quite an $$ pond. BUT, the board should have researched it BEFORE they gave him permission, not AFTER. Where's your sign is what I would have wanted to ask them!!!

SAD story about the little girl catching on fire, how horrible for the family . . .lots of babies didn't live long then either, they are all over the place in both of my family cemetaries.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Cool! I'll check into that.

I believe the anchor means first generation across the sea or something (I know my GGG Grandfather was first to come to America in my line - he came from Little Hale, Lincolnshire, England at age 16.) Anchors can also mean they served at Sea or something, but I know none of my line served at sea.

I can't recall what the ivy vine means - I used to know, haven't done much studying on it in a long time. I'll have to look it up.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Yeah, I found my Grandfather's sister's grave in an abandoned cemetery up by Caledonia Michigan - she died at age 3 from the flu. Simple diseases which we don't even think twice about killed a lot of people back then, especially the young and old.

The old cemetery by me has a lot of baby stones - it is sad to see the ones for babies and young mothers - you just know they died in childbirth - must have been scary to have a baby back then. There is one where a baby died, and the mother died exactly one year later - I wonder if she killed herself. When I see odd dates like that it makes me think things up like that in my head

. (I'm also an amateur writer, so I find pieces of "stories" that way).

meri

 

[thewarriorchild]

"My DD took these pics of a cemetary near us. I thought they were pretty neat."

Beautiful!!

I do not believe in "ghosts", it is a demon or angel...

 

[erinm]

We have about twenty something old cemetaries in Uxbridge.numbered and maintained buy a cemetary committee. One is in the middle of the woods across some rail tracks on the Millville line. Very cool. Some houses have them right in front of their yards. There are some gorgeous family plots across the line in mendon on a back road in Uxbridge. from 1700s some of them. They are really neat. Erin M

 

[PunkerTechnoRoo?ter]

These are from various cemeteries around Columbus, GA. Im curious as to know why above ground ?

 

[SarahFair]

have you ever peeked in some of those crypts?? ....im talking about the ones that look open! Not the closed ones!!
Ive always wondered about them!!

 

[Up-the-Creek]

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These are from various cemeteries around Columbus, GA. Im curious as to know why above ground ?

I always assumed the reason why they was above ground was due to problems with the ground, like water, or too rocky,..something of that nature. Like in New Orleans you see graves above ground. I figured it was because they are basically below sea level.

BTW,..cool pictures!​

 

[chixie]

i haveheard because of water... unsure though

we had a really bad flood in 1994 ... at one of the cemeteries the caskets floated out of the ground.. they had to chain them to trees until the water went down and they could be reburried... that was when i was a volunteer firefighter

 

[paganfish]

Kewl! Back home in Texas we lived near an OLD cemetary. I loved walking through it as a teen and looking at the dates on the headstones.

Some would go as far as the mid 1800s! Yikes!

This is the weird part...because of the fact that the cemetary was right next to a housing project, I would go into it at night.

For some reason it never scared me...even at that age. I was just a curious kid, I guess?

I still am...