[setter]

I live in coal strip mine country. Most of the old farms had family cemetaries from the late 1700’s on up.

When they strip mined these farms late 60’s/early 70’s they just pushed them into the pits. No one said a word or cared.
A few of the larger cemetaries they moved or went around.

We have 9 graves on our small farm from the early to late 1800’s. Can only read a few of the sandstone headstones.

[gloryblaze]

... We have 9 graves on our small farm from the early to late 1800’s. Can only read a few of the sandstone headstones.

That is pretty heavy. Do you wonder about them and their lives? Would you ever allow anyone to disturb the sites, if it was your decision?

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”We have 9 graves on our small farm from the early to late 1800’s.”

On my uncle’s farm was a small cemetery on a hill clearly visible across a pasture from the house.
It was still used a few times a year.

My uncle always wanted to be buried there on his farm.

The state /county did everything to prevent it!
Sadly it never happened.

[MayflowerMadam]

Our family cemetery in western NY goes back to the mid-1700s, and we’re still packing them in. :) I plan to be there some day. There must be 300+ graves there.

[higgmeister]

In 1959 dad bought at auction for $11,000.00, an old antebellum plantation that was in ruins.   We lived in the downstairs there for six years.   Dad put Visqueen plastic sheeting over the broken out windows upstairs.   One day while playing in the woods along the old unused carriage road my brother stepped on an old grave marker.   It was of a young girl, Amanda M. Seabrooke. We were a whole passel of kids, my siblings and friends and we brought the gravestone back to the house. passel Dad made us put it back like we found it.

Colonel Johnson had donated land for the Methodist Church which still exists today and I always wondered why the girl was not buried in the cemetery of the Church.   A couple of years ago internet sleuthing found that Seabrooke was the maiden name of the wife of Colonel John A. Johnson who originally owned the property.   The wife's family was from the coast and I suspect the girl was a niece or cousin.   Being from the coast meant she was probably of the Roman Catholic Church which required her to be buried in her own plot alone.

Successive owners were able to restore the Plantation mansion.   I have no doubt that the gravestone is still there laying on the ground and I think I could walk right to it.