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Knight
Sorry I didn't respond to your question about the family graveyard sooner.....the info I got, and I don't really know if it was valid or guessing, is that they were mainly for stillborn children, miscarriages, and some too poor....also, probably slaves....records show the family arrived there with ten. I know my G-G-Grandmother was literate, because I've posted a letter she wrote her sons on the Civil War front. Some of the regular headstones are quite fancy, some very plain.....I'd love to do more research into it someday.
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Krisles
on September 19, 2007 at 8:38 AM
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posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on September 19, 2007 at 2:21 AM
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callista
Sorry sweetheart. This comment, your posts......all are testaments that you "were" that you "are". You are destined to be remembered!!
posted by
Tattered_Knight
on September 18, 2007 at 9:47 PM
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knight
grave yards are necessary, they are full of dead people, so nothing to be afraid of.
myself i want to be cremated, nothing to remind people of me, maybe the people that loved me will remember me, but they will die one day and i guess eventually i will be forgotten.
does it really matter????????
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callista22001
on September 18, 2007 at 9:10 PM
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T K
Excellent post!!! I like the saying that, as long as someone remembers you, your spirit will live on...
posted by
Enigmatic68
on September 18, 2007 at 6:38 PM
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Tattered...
I don't really like visiting graveyards... I just go there once in a while to visit my grandparents. But I don't really think about if people will remember me or not after I'm dead ... I thinks it's more important to remember our loved ones while they're still alive.
posted by
Sheilah
on September 18, 2007 at 3:26 PM
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Tattered Knight
I like graveyards too. I wonder if soon there will be only ashes strewn about no recollection ow who and where we were if it matters. It makes me sad. I am struggling with that questions right now. Would I want to be cremated?
posted by
Justi
on September 18, 2007 at 3:16 PM
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That's kind of creepy
personally graveyards make me too sad.
posted by
le_divorcee
on September 18, 2007 at 10:01 AM
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Markers show respect for the dead, a marker of remembrance for those
still living. My views are rather odd regarding this matter. I pray my life will leave markers in hearts and a legacy for generations. My ashes will be cast into the wind. Pondering thoughts!
posted by
roadscross
on September 18, 2007 at 9:36 AM
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Nature's craddle.....
That stone may someday be forgotten from sight.....but it looks like nature has embraced it and will hold it in memory.....
posted by
gavelkorbald
on September 18, 2007 at 9:27 AM
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we have a family cemetary and I, along with others, make sure it is cared
and tended.
posted by
riri0322
on September 18, 2007 at 8:56 AM
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posted by
Amanda__
on September 18, 2007 at 5:23 AM
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tattered
well in life all we are a bunch #'s telephones, bank accounts, passcodes, etc
posted by
Lanetay
on September 17, 2007 at 10:32 PM
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That reminds me I should check on the family plot in Colorado.
Smiles
from me and Bo =^..^= the wonder dog!
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Whacky
on September 17, 2007 at 9:28 PM
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t knight
my foster Chinese grandpa has a family graveyard and we visit our ancestral graves on 'All Souls Day' .... an annual occasion in April.
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richinstore
on September 17, 2007 at 9:26 PM
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krisles
Wow, your own family graveyard. That would be a trip. I would wonder whether or not the rocks were placed instead of a headstone because they could not read or write? Do you know the history of it?
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Tattered_Knight
on September 17, 2007 at 9:11 PM
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Knight
I love graveyards, too....always have, and have many photos taken in travels. A couple of years ago, I paid a visit to my family graveyard here in Texas.....the family farm is still where my g-g-grandfather established it in 1854, along with the two-room cabin he built...and a church he built and graveyard are adjacent. I walked among all the stones of people actually connected to me (for a change)...and it was a trip (many meanings with that choice of words) like I'd never experienced. Especially grabbing, were the stones that represented family members too poor or in such a time, that headstones were not placed....when I say stones, I mean all sized rocks, placed in a specific area, to represent a family member....no names, no details....just rocks. I learned that groundskeepers throughout the years have used special care to keep them in the area they were originally placed.....
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Krisles
on September 17, 2007 at 9:01 PM
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