Congratulations
to Rebel10 on the FTF.
The
"Restin'" caches are
a series of micro-caches that take you to beautiful and some
forgotten cemeteries throughout the area. We introduce you to these
cemeteries as a way of exploring our local history, and those who
were early settlers here. While visiting we hope that you can
reflect on their lives and contributions to the communities that
they helped build into where we live today. Please respect their
resting place and ensure that extreme care is taken during your
visit. Please bring your own pen!
This is a very old
cemetery. Some of the stones are so old that they are
unreadable and some tree roots have even caused some stones to tilt
to the side. Take some time to read the stones. I saw one stone
that I think said that the person died sometime in the 1700's and
was 50-some years old. This could mean that they were born in the
1600's!
I've noticed in some old cemeteries that there
are misspellings on the stones. I saw, at one of my other
Restin' cache locations, (Flinton
United) that they had spelled "died" as "dide". This
shows how many people were not educated to the standards we are
today. On the photo below, the stone is missing the Y in
"days"
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"If you walk through any cemetery that’s
been in operation for more than a hundred years, you’ll soon
notice two things. The first is the sheer number of children that
used to die before they were old enough to crawl and how many
families had two, three, or more children that didn’t live to
their tenth birthdays.
The second is an unusual obsession with
precision exhibited on many markers. I can understand marking a
dead child’s age as three weeks or 22 days, but many of the
markers for older people also include precise counts of months and
days. It always seems a little odd to see a grandmother’s age
tallied up in the same manner as a toddler’s.
A lot of people shy away from cemeteries, but
I always find them fascinating. Taking a stroll through an old
cemetery is like walking through a highly-condensed social history
of a region. As you progress from older graves to newer ones, the
names change, occupations shift, family relationships become clear,
and tributes to achievements both major and minor abound."
[The above picture is a picture of an old
tombstone in this cemetery]
-This text and
the picture above taken from http://valdodge.com/category/cemeteries/
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