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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

There is a old church cemetery in Hillsborough, NC where my (6x?) great-grandmother is buried.

She died during the Revolution and has the oldest tombstone in the cemetery. I've been there a couple of times and it's an amazing experience.


27 posted on 10/11/2004 7:18:22 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Burger-Eating War Monkey)
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To: Constitution Day

My mothers family has an old cemetary in the mountains of W.VA. it is so much fun to look at mostly relatives headstones from before the civil war. You can almost follow the history of the family by where the head stones are.


30 posted on 10/11/2004 7:32:09 AM PDT by vin-one (REMEMBER the WTC !!!!!!!!)
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To: Constitution Day
My Mom's side of the family goes back to the Revolutionary period, but my Dad's side only got here in 1913......... lol

Does that mean I only owe half if we have to pay reparations?

36 posted on 10/11/2004 8:30:31 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (My 13 year old son is more manly than sissyboy edwards................)
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To: Constitution Day

I live in Harvard, MA, and we have the grave of a British soldier who died in the 1700's of smallpox. They went as far west as they could into the boondocks to bury him, which is what Harvard was at that time. Nowheresville. The grave is on Poor Farm Road, neatly kept up by the local historical society. We're also the site of an early Shaker settlement and so have a very old Shaker cemetery. I was walking one of my dogs in there one afternoon, and he suddenly took off, over the stone wall, leaped into the car through the open window, dragging me with him. He was terrified. I've always thought one of the elder ghosts told him to get out! I've taken him back from time to time, but he's never comfortable there. Other cemeteries, he seems okay.


45 posted on 10/11/2004 11:46:30 AM PDT by hershey
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