[AT] funny..

[Danny Tabor]

While on the subject of cemeteries here is a neat and
fun website I like to visit. 

http://www.pennyparker2.com/epitaph.html

Danny Tabor

--- charlie hill <chill8 at cox.net> wrote:

> I have thought from time to time that I might
> request to be burried in the 
> cemetary on our farm.  The last person burried there
> was my grandmother in 
> about 1923 and she was later exhumed and burried in
> a town cemetary next to 
> my grandfather.  However, the cemetary is there and
> I'm not concerned that 
> it might not be maintained.  It just seems like a
> nice place for me to rest. 
> I would feel at home there.
> 
> 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 5:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
> 
> 
> > Come to think of it I believe I have an uncle
> buried on what used to be 
> > his family's farm. His wife however was buried in
> a church cemetery.
> >
> > WWII dislodged all of my grandmothers family.
> Uncle Sam needed the land 
> > for a military base/POW camp. Anyhow there were
> several old cemetery's 
> > there. They didn't move them but didn't do a whole
> lot to upkeep them 
> > either.
> >
> > Some of which are now on property owned by the
> state.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
> >
> >
> >> 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>
> >>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> >>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >>> 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.  
> ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> 
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