[AT] funny..

[John Hall]

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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