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We found it....Bride and I went searching for an old family cemetery ...PIC
William81
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The landowner is running cattle in the field. It was nice of him to put up the fence around it. My Bride's 6X great grandparents are buried there. We could never see it before today as the weeds usually covered it all up....Next we need to get permission to walk out and read the inscriptions.
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That's just totally awesome!
Just got involved in several new to me genealogy groups and learned of several family cemeteries that I did not know about .
Awesome discovery,congrats. Please keep us updated.
William, if you haven't already, check out www.findagrave.com.
My wife has used that website in the past to find most of our families The big issue in finding this gravesite is it is located than half a mile off the road and has been covered by weeds and clutter in the past. This was the first time we could actually see it from the road. Some of these little family cemeteries are very difficult to locate as they are on private property.
We have been lucky to have run into great folks that have allowed us to trek across their properties with permission.
Just curious William, if it's a family cemetery, why do you need permission to visit?
The land is no longer owned by any family members. Wish we did, it is a pretty area.
That is how a lot of them are here. This one is believed to have 3 known family members and may have others.
Fence is very respectful ! Permission to visit is likely. 😉
Nice
I hope you get to follow up and visit I really see no reason the land owner would not allow it
my dads side of the family have more or less a family cemetery its on leach mountain . I was there once as a very young kid when my grand father died so its just a faint memory and I have a older brother who died at less than a month old ) burred not far from it at Clairfield church a very small church yard and I have been there many times in the past however the leach mountain place from my understanding the one I am hoping to visit is not far away but use to be the road was terrible , think of horse & wagon or 4x4 but that was 55 + years ago
the old cemetery is / was taken over by a coal company while I was just a kid but part of the deal was they allow access to the graveyard .
any way I hope to get back down there this summer make a couple day trip out of it takew some photos to pass along if any one will ever care ? at least they will have that part of the history. I guess I could do a google earth search now that I think about it 🤨 at least find it and see the roads
Even if a cemetery is land-locked there will be an easement allowing public access. Otherwise, the cemetery would eventually 'disappear' and become farmland. As valuable as land is now many farmers wouldn't think twice about yanking the stones and no-tilling the soil.