[AT] funny..

[Phil Auten]

I've long been interested in old cemeteries. My wife and I found an antebellum
family cemetery in Georgia a few years ago out in the middle of a clear-cut
area. We also learned, on that same trip, the location of the site of a great-
grandfather's burial, unmarked, in the churchyard plot of another family.
My sister-in-law is the family genealogist. She just returned from a week long
trip to Alabama searching several cemeteries for family members. She had
a good "spooking" :o) in one rural cemetery "out in the woods in the middle of
nowhere". She just couldn't continue and left. We'll have to go back later so
she can find out if there's anyone there from the family.
Several years ago, after attending the Fredricksburg, Texas tractor and engine
show at Stonewall, Texas, We stopped at a former church cemetery nearby
(the church has moved). There, I found a grave with a special marker 
on it denoting
the person interred within was "a citizen of the Republic of Texas". 
He had lived in
Texas when it was it's own country, prior to becoming part of the U.S.
Fascinating, to me!

Phil

At 12:07 PM 10/28/2006, you wrote:
>Francis Robinson wrote:
>>         A cemetery morbid??? Not to a genealogist...   ;-)
>>         There is a TV commercial on now that shows a couple 
>> getting all upset
>>because they just looked out the window and discovering that outside of the
>>window of their great hotel room is a huge very old cemetery. They start
>>preparing to leave at once. If that were a genealogist the reaction would be
>>"COOL!!!! Let's go look..."   ;-)   ;-)
>>         As a parallel, imagine looking out of your new hotel 
>> window and seeing a
>>huge collection of restored antique tractors, each with a story to tell.
>>:)>
>Yes, some may think it strange but I find old cemeteries and 
>headstones interesting to explore. I figure its just an extension of 
>my appreciation for all things old (including tractors).
>  I do cemetery look-ups and headstone photos for other genealogists 
> from other parts of the world, plus I have had others do the same for me.
>We do have a few rural cemeteries here but I think some of them were 
>originally Church sites. The Church having long since disappeared 
>there is only the graveyard left. Most in this area are well 
>maintained. A lot of the Sask. cemeteries are gradually being 
>transcribed and put online for others to search which I think is a great idea.
>
>Ralph in Sask.
>
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