Walking through cold, damp European cathedrals as a teenager, I became intrigued that hundreds of years ago, people were buried in the floors, in the walls, and in the crypts of these magnificent structures.
Thank you! I have two more….one, a condition of the landowner taking us to see it was that we not post it. But the story was so similar…the search, the cousin, the dog, coming back dressed properly….In that case, because the stones were sinking and plowing had become hazardous because they kept running into unseen stones, they just put up one big one to all the ancestors.
In the other, there are so many stones, none of them marked, that we cannot tell if we have found the family cemetery or not.
Both …so great to have documented in your records! I know the general location (give or take 100 acres) of another family plot from the late 1800s. Hmm…maybe time for me to contact the landowner.
I love cemeteries! They are my favorite thing! Before the Internet, they were the best and easiest way to get genealogical info.
Too many of my ancestors buried each other in family plots on their own land. Now disappeared.
Oh i know! I fortunate at least one family cemetery in a field was saved.
I wrote about one find in https://grandmasgrannysfamilyalbum.blogspot.com/2022/07/rushton-family-cemetery.html. I guess I will cross-post it on here at some point.
Just read it! What a wonderful discovery! 😊
Thank you! I have two more….one, a condition of the landowner taking us to see it was that we not post it. But the story was so similar…the search, the cousin, the dog, coming back dressed properly….In that case, because the stones were sinking and plowing had become hazardous because they kept running into unseen stones, they just put up one big one to all the ancestors.
In the other, there are so many stones, none of them marked, that we cannot tell if we have found the family cemetery or not.
Both …so great to have documented in your records! I know the general location (give or take 100 acres) of another family plot from the late 1800s. Hmm…maybe time for me to contact the landowner.
Yes….I found the local genealogy society had the GPS coordinates.