Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Rest with the ancient ones,..

,..where I belong,..

,...gotta figure out who to contact. From what I understand, the hole is free if you're a descendant.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1610954/memorial-search?page=1#sr-46690544

Cornwall bunch is here,...4th great grandmother,...

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6817234/harriet-l-harrison

Hopefully you're not feeling your mortality just yet. You need to write a book first.

So ... Where did they bury the rest of you?

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No,...just digging around ancestry.com last night,....found where some of my first American ancestors were buried and traced how my linage descended from them,...pretty interesting to me.

Looks like a pretty exclusive neighborhood.

This is where I'm getting buried.

Hmmmm..be like,..so Adolf, given away at birth, was my uncle? 😳 😀

No,...it's in a field surrounded by farmland not far from where I grew up. Until a few years ago it was overgrown with trees and underbrush and many people didn't even realize it was there.

Recently, some distant relatives of mine cleaned it up, stood up the headstones which had fallen over and purchased a replacement headstone for one of the matriarchs of the family who settled in McCracken County, Ky.

I knew of the place,...visited it once when I was a young kid. But I didn't realize the significance of it to my ancestry.

That must be where you got your "Adventurous" younger years from.

I was speaking metaphorically, in a complimentary sense.

Well,...it wouldn't seem all that exclusive if the family had continued using it. I have *many* other (more recent) family members who are buried in various church cemeteries around there. It makes me wonder why they stopped using it. Maybe because the land around it got sold. The people who own the land surrounding it are old family friends of mine and it was their son who showed it to me way back when we were both kids. I suppose the reason it became overgrown and turned into a grove of trees was because the various owners over the years didn't use it as farmland in deference to the cemetery. From what I understand, those distant relatives of mine who cleaned the place up have also made a small road/path leading back to it and they're now using it again.

I'm going to drive back down there and check it out when the weather improves. It's about 250 miles west of here.

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Here's My G-G-G-G-Grandfather

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9555784/william-tilford-stone#

I did a little work and found the grave yard where my great, great grandfather is buried. Found on the internet anyway.

Near a little town called Laconia, just north of the Ohio in Indiana.

A pile of the Conrads ended up there. Came over from Pennsylvania I believe.


Great Grand dad didnt like it I guess and decided to homestead up here.


Fun Fact: Great, great granddad was married to a Brandenburg. Her uncle founded the town Brandenburg, Kentucky.

Most of my direct kin are buried in Spring Grove, 2nd largest cemetery in the world. We're all up on a hill overlooking where they plant the Williams clan-- largest group of Gypsies in the US. The funerals down there make for an awesome floorshow. My buddy, John, is there too. He's planted with the rest of his clan-- came down on a flatboat and were one of the first one in at Losantiville. Besides being huge, there's a Civil War graveyard there that has more Union generals than anywhere else. My first wife, Satan, is due to be buried there. I plan on making sure grass never grows on her grave.

Spring Grove

Most of my Mom's clan going back a few generations fertilized a couple of large cemeteries around Cleveland, Ohio. I have visited them a few times, and I have no desire to spend eternity in Cleveland.

I have left orders that my body be donated for obscene practical jokes by first-year med students, and whatever is left be mulched into large, recognizable chunks and be used for erosion control. KYHillChick wants to be airmailed off the overlook that looks over Devil's Jump and Mine 18.



Her daddy is in this picture. Doc's widow donated the pic for the mural at the visitor's center. We've got the original.

Here's a pic of Devil's Jump, just up-river from Mine 18.

I have kin buried in lots of places, the oldest one is in Queens and is now a designated landmark, not sure I would want to be buried there even if they allowed it.

http://forgotten-ny.com/2013/01/brinckerhoff-cemetery-fresh-meadows/

https://www.brownstoner.com/queens/...clared-landmark-in-fresh-meadows-queens/

It's interesting to learn of how many linages trace back to Kentucky. Texas has quite a few families that can trace their linage to Kentucky from a long time ago. Michigan has a *lot* of families who moved there for work after the second world war. I have family in both states.

In Hell I Was There, Elmer Keith states that his grandparents are from Cynthiana, Kentucky, which is next door to where I'm living now.

It seems as if after Daniel Boone blazed a trail through The Cumberland Gap, people began moving west through it and would stay in Kentucky for a generation,...maybe two,..then move further west. The Cumberland Gap was one of the primary paths across the Appalachian Mountains and it just happened to be in Kentucky, so it caused a lot of people to flow into the state,..for a while, anyway.

Also,..quite a few people crossed the Mountains prior to the establishment of the Cumberland Gap. In Night Comes to the Cumberlands, author Harry Caudill mentionsa census expedition funded by Congress shortly after the Revolution that found people of European ancestry living 200 miles west of the known western expansion,..and they had been there for generations.

I bet that was interesting. To be 200 miles west the known expansion and still coming across these people who had lived there for generations totally isolated from the rest of the country.