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To: Salamander

I have an interest in getting the inscriptions from old gravestones (family historian). Have you had any luck with that? And where did you take the picture?

Thanks, ‘Pod


23 posted on 01/17/2018 1:17:21 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: sauropod

Most of my ancestors don’t have headstones with inscriptions.
They’re literally just rocks propped up and we have to remember which rock belongs to who.
Some of them, we had to walk into fields in WV to get to the family graveyards.
Not much to see but more rocks.
The more recent departed are all up in the Parkhead cemetery, not far from me.

That photo was taken in Hancock MD, up on the hill where all the old historic churches share a common land.
Catholic, Protestant, they’re all cheek-to-jowl on one ridge.
Lots of very old graves, many Confederate.

It’s a great and spooky place to go.

:)


43 posted on 01/17/2018 1:03:11 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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