Old Cemetaries

Tom Bond · May 28, 2012

Hi All. Saw one topic on here where others are interested in old cemetaries as well as myself. Lot of good history in them. Very interesting when you start checking into their origins. Here's a few pics from one I came across while out deer hunting a few years ago on some property I bought in SE Illinois. The one looks like its an actual headstone from a calvary corporal. Enjoy in reverance this Memorial Day! THANK YOU to all you Veterans!

Billy Shafer · May 28, 2012

When I was on the road all over Texas. I would find cemetaries in some very strange places. I once found a slave cemetary. That had been lost for years.Found it odd that some were miles from the town they served. Found one where a family was buried. The mother and six kids. All kids less than a year old.

JerryS · May 28, 2012

When I was a lad one of my summer jobs (in addition to milking cows in our dairy and other farm-related work) was mowing the community cemetery. Took all day.

But I enjoyed looking at the monuments and trying to make some guesses about the people interred there. Some of the monuments had permanent porcelain photos of the deceased embedded in the stone. I thought that was especially neat.

I have spent time in other old cemeteries as well. One thing that struck me was the number of people that died of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. You would know that's what is was, because several members of one family, particularly chidren, would have died within a week or two of each other.

Anonymous-0 · May 28, 2012

In my wanderings on here, saw where there were three children in the same family with the same name,all died before 4 years. sad.

JerryS · May 29, 2012

Tom, it looks like your Corporal Padgett's 5th Ill. Cavalry had quite a busy time of it during the Great Unpleasantness. The 5th was attached first to McPherson, apparently, and then Sherman. In any case, they rode in support of Grant's Vicksburg campaign, plus other chores.

Toward the end of the war they were even down in my neck of the woods, just a few miles from where I live.

Company F was organized in Crawford County. Is that where the cemetery is?

OH - 961 · May 29, 2012

In my wanderings of old cemeteries, I have noticed that many, many children died at early ages, and often the mothers died in childbirth.
There weren't the modern medicines available or health care facilities that we pretty much take for granted now.
Kinda makes you wonder if "the good old days" were really that great!

Myron

Hammer house · May 29, 2012

Tom, I also like to look at old cemeteries We found an old one the other day in the woods. 5 grave markers are of petrified wood, but still solid & good. Will send pic. tonight.

Hammer Man

greygoat · May 29, 2012

I always stop to walk in quiet old cemetarys,
and see so many plots of young women, early 20's
and babys who died with, or near the time of the
Mom. Child birth death appears to be common in
the 1800's..imagine, being on a homestead miles
from a town, or Doctors, and the Doctors were
often poorly trained, and knew no hygine, and
you maybe couldn't afford to pay a doctor anyway.
There is an old Mormon Cemetary along highway 2
in southern Iowa, the old "Mormon Trail" and so
many of those laid to rest there were young women

Anonymous-0 · May 30, 2012

Tom:
Don't know if this will help you any, but I ran across an interesting web site recently.
WWW.Findagrave.com.

Hammer house · May 30, 2012

Will send pic. of old cemetery we found in the wood. They cut timber all around. Pic. of petrified wood. Steel name plate at bottom.

Hammer Man

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