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there is some stuff refering to a member of my family being one of the first white people to go west of the cumberland gap. I do know they were in kentucky certainly in the early 1800's. One of them married one of boones kids. I do a lot of internet sleuthing and have found graveyards back there full of people with my last name.

Used to not be all that uncommon to find small old family cemeteries scattered all over the countryside while wandering around out hunting . Most often they were hidden from view grown over with weeds, honeysuckle vines, blackberry and wild rose briars and saplings especially if they were located where crops were later planted regularly.and farmers just circled around them year after year.

Families break-up, marry into other families, direct bloodlines die off, move off to other areas of the country. Over time they develop more actual ties to their new area than they have/had in their birth area and wind up getting buried there either by their own choice or that of a surviving spouse and/or heir's wishes. Even with modern day large well kept local community and church cemeteries family members still wind up being buried far and wide.