for Mr Perfect............

hillbille

the cemetery I mow used to be behind a one room schoolhouse, my grandmother taught school at. she passed before I was born, but my mom and three of her sisters went there, it was on top of the hill about a mile above the farm she was born/raised on. It has a lot of distant family the tenents who were my grandmothers folks, Coxs who were my grandfathers side, Simms, Howells, Tremblys and a few other families who lived in the general area. it is in the middle of a public hunting area now, as Pulp and paper,westvaco, Meade,and I think the last name was heartland. owned all the surrounding land having bought up the land back in the 40s-70s. they leased the land to the Department of Natural Resources for a public hunting area, they just sold it to the Department of Natural resources permantly last year or two. I promised my mom I would mow and take care of it the best I could and have for the last 30-40 years, when she passed I basically got full responsibility as no one else cares or donates any time or money to upkeep. we have no deed or official paperwork it has just allways been there and she has allways taken care of it, though back then a lot of the older folks still donated money to pay for the mowing and upkeep.

If you google Dry Ridge cemetery ritchie county wv, there are a few picture on find a grave listed there and a frontal view, the school burned down back in the 50s, I don't have a cell or any way to post picture, I have my own headstone, and my wifes there and figured when something happens to me and her at least my kids will have to mow it twice a year to find our graves. total there are maybe 75 or so graves and at least 50-60 are marked, we painted patio blocks white and put the names on them the best my mom could remember before she died, and now there is no one left to correct us if we were wrong but we got most of them marked except 11 Buccanon kids who died with the fever as mom told us,back in the early 20s they are in the back left corner but just not sure exactly where, we put a large flat stone there with the 11 names. I try to get it mowed every 3-4 weeks, roughly may thru september. It only takes hour and half or so to mow, usually the wife trims/weedeats while I mow, or grandson trims, then its hour to load and unload, so it is at least half a days job plus the 45 mile drive.

toad67

Nice job hillbille, respect like that is seldom seen these days.

Junkballer

I'm kinda in the same boat with a family cemetery on our farm that dates back to the mid 1700's before the U.S became the U.S, 3-4 times a year I cut what I can and spray round-up then spread fire-ant bait out. Other family members don't offer to help, even my very own offspring ☹️ but somehow I feel it's my duty, maybe because that's my future home some day, where others wind up...I don't care.

asop

Our house was built in the late 1800's. Had an elderly couple stop in about 35 years ago and told us her grandfather built it. She noticed that I had planted many tress thru out the property and asked me if I had come across any bones! I told her no and asked her why she asked me. Told me her grandfather was buried somewhere on the property. Why wife almost fell off her chair🙃

Mr. Perfect

Incredible. Thank you for sharing more about it. I wonder if that land would be granted to you as caretaker, since you are?