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To: AnAmericanMother

Most people would be surprised just how many there are, back in the woods, nowhere near a modern road. Southern frontier era families had family graveyards, and those who haven’t died out or moved on still do, those are the three I try to help maintain, they belong to my own family.

Wandering the woods, if you come upon a patch of periwinkle, chances are there’s an old family cemetery. Many are marked with fieldstone set on end. They usually got “lost” due to the Civil War and the aftermath of it, a lot of poverty and dislocation.


22 posted on 05/26/2012 1:02:43 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
I've got family all over NW GA and NE AL, with private graveyards and graveyards attached to churches - some still active, some with no congregation. We joke that our family's old church in Uchee, AL - the last active member died in 1982 - is the only independent Baptist Church in the country with an Episcopalian, two Methodists, and a Catholic (me) on the board!

Our ggg grandfather who was a deacon there must be rolling in his grave out there behind the church if he knows that so many of his descendants have done backslid on him!

Since you maintain a couple of cemeteries, what's the best way to repair a marble stone that has broken? I've seen everything from cement to bathtub caulk to roofing tar . . . .

27 posted on 05/26/2012 2:43:58 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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