[AT] funny..

Sun Oct 29 13:02:29 PST 2006

I'd bet John is talking about Camp Butner.  That's near his stomping 
grounds.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:44 PM
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> 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"
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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"
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>> 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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