Old Cemetery

[Carl]

While 4 Wheeler ridding today my wife and I found this old cemetery. It was out in the middle of nowhere. Looking at old graves makes me appreciate still being alive. I guess most of the people buried here are long forgotten. Like us, they lived their life, but at some time they had to die, also like us. Life is so short........We should live it to the fullest for some day we will be gone and eventually fotgotten.


A pic of one of the markers.....most were eroded my time.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/crmiller/Picture266.jpg

[P. Beyer]

On my property in Livingston County there is an old cemetary, most from the early-mid 1800's.......Right in the middle of the woods. There is an access road, and someone maintains the area still, I'm sure an ancestor. I've seen them a few times, I figured to let em' be and have their time there alone.

[quackrstackr]

I bumped into and older man once in the middle of LBL that was looking for an old family cemetery. Guy had absolutely no business wandering back in those hills (he looked to be 70+) but he just wanted to see where his family was before he went himself.

I know where several old cemeteries are like that in the middle of old woodlots or fields. Neat to see that history and try to imagine the stories. One thing that always strikes me about those old ones are the seemingly high number of infant and child graves. Different times back then for sure.

[Gobblergetter2.1]

That is neat! On my lease in ohio co., there is an old home site where the brick chimley is the only thing left. It is awesome because the whole ridge it is on during the early spring is covered with easter lillies. I'll get a pic of it next spring. It is truly beautiful. I'm not sure how the people got in and out of there, it is a solid woods. I guess back then, it was all open at some time. It's amazing to think how much things have changed!

[Highbow]

I have a cemetary on our property, my neighbor and I keep it cleaned but seldom does anyone come it, neither of us have family there but I plan to be the first from my family to spend my peaceful rest there.

[keith meador]

there is an old cemetery on the property i hunt, but none of the headstones are in that good of shape. that headstone is remarkable. everything is still crisp and clean in the inscription. i have never seen anyone on the cemetery. a couple of times a year i clean up a little and pitch the broken limbs out of it. havent really thought about it, but i have no idea why i try to clean it up, i guess out of respect for those who have passed. i have no ties whatsoever to the cemetery.

[k-man]

I found this on a Mr. James Fitzhugh in the 1850 census records of Ohio Co. Ky. fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ormonde/2/44b.htm (http://fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ormonde/2/44b.htm)
Says he was a lawyer and the age is about right too. (scroll down to Fitzhugh)
You might find it interesting to go searching for more info. about him.

[Carl]

I had planned on doing research on this guy,....This forum is better than the Yellow Pages.....Let your keyboard do the walking:D:D:D
I found this on a Mr. James Fitzhugh in the 1850 census records of Ohio Co. Ky. fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ormonde/2/44b.htm (http://fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ormonde/2/44b.htm)
Says he was a lawyer and the age is about right too. (scroll down to Fitzhugh)
You might find it interesting to go searching for more info. about him.

[ky_copenhagen]

When I was a kid my family would sometimes hike to the old home sites of my great grandparents. I havent been there in at least 10-12 years, but I loved seeing those kinds of places. I thought it was so cool how my grandfather could look at an open field or a wooded area and tell me stories about how he watered horses or mules in wells that are still there, or how he would just play in the fields as a boy.

While I was stationed in Korea there were a couple of fenced off areas on base where graves where marked. No names or anything. I assume the people there died in the Korean war but I'm not sure. I'd like to know the history behind that.

[Art]

My dad is buried in a cemetery in Garrard Co. that has soldiers buried there from both the revolutionary war and the civil war. Talk about some old grave stones, some of them have tree trunks growing around them.

I have always really liked old cemeteries, especially the ones way out in the middle of the woods with NOTHING around them.. Out of all of them, I find the Indian burial mounds the most interesting. I hunted a farm in Washington Co for a couple of years that was overun with them, kinda spooky in the dark.:D

[PhilpotHunter]

My dad is buried in a cemetery in Garrard Co. that has soldiers buried there from both the revolutionary war and the civil war. Talk about some old grave stones, some of them have tree trunks growing around them.

I have always really liked old cemeteries, especially the ones way out in the middle of the woods with NOTHING around them.. Out of all of them, I find the Indian burial mounds the most interesting. I hunted a farm in Washington Co for a couple of years that was overun with them, kinda spooky in the dark.:D

Is that why you drive a Dodge, because your scared of the dark like a pansy?:eek:

[Art]

Is that why you drive a Dodge, because your scared of the dark like a pansy?:eek:

No, it's because I have this deep inner fear about being stranded on the side of the road. Thats why a shrink once told me I could not ever own a Ford.

[PhilpotHunter]

Thats why a shrink once told me I could not ever own a Ford.

I'm confused? The shrink doesn't want you to be a man why?

[Art]

I'm confused? The shrink doesn't want you to be a woman why?

My doctor told me that driving a Ford was like drinking a glass full of estrogen and it would do some strange things to such a manly man.:D

[PhilpotHunter]

My doctor told me that driving a Ford was like drinking a glass full of estrogen and it would do some strange things to such a manly man.:D

I have to question everything you say now that you admit to being a looney crazy guy! No wonder you drive a Dodge, your insane!

[Art]

I have to question everything you say now that you admit to being a looney crazy guy! No wonder you drive a Dodge, your insane!

That used to bother me when I was in elementary school, but now I'm used to it. I don't care what you call me as long as you don't call me late at night when you need a tow.:D

[PhilpotHunter]

That used to bother me when I was in elementary school, but now I'm used to it. I don't care what you call me as long as you don't call me late at night when you need a tow.:D

LOL

Its alright man, they told me I was crazy too. I just laughed and asked for more drugs!:D

[buckfever]

I found this on a Mr. James Fitzhugh in the 1850 census records of Ohio Co. Ky. fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ormonde/2/44b.htm (http://fortunecity.com/meltingpot/ormonde/2/44b.htm)
Says he was a lawyer and the age is about right too. (scroll down to Fitzhugh)
You might find it interesting to go searching for more info. about him.

The Fitzhugh family has been a very prominent historical family in Kentucky. I actually know several Fitzhugh descendants (and even work with one). I wonder if this chap was from the same lineage?

By the way, I think the Fitzhugh family typically drove Studebakers.

[buckfever]

I also went back and checked out k-man's link. I scrounged around a little more and found two of my ancestors - Bland Ballard and George Rogers Clark - in the 1789 Jefferson County Taxpayer listings. Interesting stuff.