[AT] funny..

Ed Stewart edstewart1 at verizon.net
Sun Oct 29 12:25:04 PST 2006


John, it is funny you should mention the base, I had an uncle who got 
his start tearing down the bases used in WW2 He made enough money doing 
this that he Started a development company in Jacksonville Fla where he 
purchased swamp land and drained it, he died a very wealthy man. Ed

Al Jones wrote:
> John, What base was that?
>
> Down here at the coast, some of my wife's family was displaced when they
> built Camp Davis at Holly Ridge.  TRACTOR CONTENT: A history instructor
> at Cape Fear Community College has just written a good book about the
> history of the base.  His father was Wilbur Tyndall, who owned the JD
> museum in Pink Hill.  Small world.
>
> My Granddaddy and great-Granddaddy got jobs as carpenters constructing
> the base.  Not much is left today, the base was closed after the war.
> Camp Lejune owns most of the land now but the air strip is still back
> there in the woods, I am told, and you can still spy a brick chimney
> here and there from the base.
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:14 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> 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.   ;-)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "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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