[AT] funny..

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Sat Oct 28 17:05:47 PDT 2006 

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" 
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> 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" 
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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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