[AT] funny..

[charlie hill]

John,

Our farm has a cemetary on it.  It is in the edge of the woods under 2 giant 
magnolia trees.  There are a few graves with head stones including one 
Woodmen of the World headstone and several graves marked only by what is 
left of old wooden markers.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] funny..


> Don't know if you guys are trying to be morbid  with all this cemetery 
> talk or just trying to get in the season with Halloween next week, but 
> I'll go with the flow. How common was/is it in your neck of the woods to 
> have cemeteries on the farm? We used to have 2 farms leased that had 
> cemeteries on them. One had a large cemetery on it while there were two 
> smaller cemeterys on the other.
>
> The large cemetry was smack in the middle of a 50 acre field (BIG field 
> for my area). It had a stone wall around it. If I remember correctly it 
> had filled up on the inside and they had started to bury folks on the 
> outside of the wall. Never got off the tractor to check any dates though. 
> We farmed practically within a few feet of the cemetery. It was overgrown 
> with trees although none of them were huge.
>
> The other farm actually had 3 gravesites come to think about it. One was 
> in a field, one was in the woods (tombstones dating to the 50's at this 
> site) and another gravesite was discovered when that farm began growing 
> its present crop (houses). Guy was clearing a lot in the woods and saw 
> something that looked like bone. Got off and checked and he noticed a row 
> of mounds. Long story short they had to hire someone to come in and  move 
> that gravesite. Speculation was that is may have been an old slave 
> cemetery. Couldn't find any markers except one piece of stone that looked 
> like it had a date chiseled in it but it wasn't very legible.
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:16 AM
> Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> I found a new "need" for a butt buggy today.  I'm tramping through
>> some pretty rough terrain in cemeteries in the upper Ohio valley,
>> and it sure would be nice to have my Jim Dandy (Economy) tractor
>> with me equipped with the dual transmissions and 12.25:1
>> differential to cruise around looking for tombstone inscriptions
>> (genealogy work).  With the sunken graves (no vaults), a super-slow
>> tractor would be a tremendous help.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>> Hi Larry:
>>
>> As it happens I also was out of state tramping cemeteries for the last
>> couple of days. I didn't really have the time but the planets lined up or
>> something and an opportunity presented its self.  It would have taken a
>> good-sized dozer to have gotten through one that I was in this morning...
>> Really over-grown...   ;-)    Really sad how little respect people have 
>> for
>> those former living breathing souls that came before us and gave us the 
>> best
>> of what we have today. I found out yesterday that I need to return to one
>> cemetery soon to replace 5 vandalized stones of family members. They were
>> damaged since I was there last maybe 4 years ago. They are small stones 
>> but
>> it is going to be a bit expensive and it is a 5-hour drive one way.  On a
>> brighter note, three small cemeteries that I had not been in before were 
>> in
>> nice shape and very well kept.
>> We did once use a tractor in a cemetery. When I was a teen my local 4-H
>> club took on the care of a small abandoned cemetery only a quarter mile 
>> from
>> the farm. It had so many deeply sunken graves that the club had a big 
>> load
>> of fill dirt brought in and then I took the John Deere 40C crawler in and
>> carefully leveled the whole thing. The club then reseeded it and held the
>> mowing contract with the TWP for many years. That was in the 1950s and 
>> the
>> club got $50 a year for maintaining it. The club is now gone but the TWP
>> still pays someone to mow it. It still looks quite nice. I'll bet the TWP
>> has to pay a lot more than $50 a year now.   ;-)
>>
>> --
>> "farmer"
>>
>> The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live 
>> at
>> all.
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> Central Indiana, USA
>> robinson at svs.net
>>
>>
>
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