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Ahhh. 'Getting my headstone fix. Thank You, good Col.

Cool stuff, @ColColt. These are so neat. My family in Indiana came from Kentucky, after leaving York Co., PA, and Washington County, VA (confederates, of course). And those "damned yankees" burned down all the courthouses in the south, which makes tracing the family tree and history so difficult. Then, in my case, the county courthouse in Indiana that my family came to, and the courthouse at my hometown both had fires and destroyed all the records from that time period. There are numerous civil war veterans in a graveyard near me in NJ that are lost forever in overgrowth as records are non-existent and the cemetery has not been maintained. Headstones gone.

I have a few more possibly worthy of posting later. It's such a shame so many grave sites have fallen out of favor with anyone who would or should care. I did a bit of research and the best I could find about the last person buried here was in 2009. I thought it rather odd as I looked around the place I saw no flowers anywhere. This is a big cemetery-some 15 acres and I didn't begin to dot that much coverage. I don't know how often, if at all, the grounds are kept up, but; the place looked pretty good to be the age it is. There were markers and stones everywhere from the entrance to the ravines and beyond. A fish-eye lens couldn't have covered half of it.