If you have an interesting or remarkable marker, feel free to post. These are at Caney Cemetary, which one of my ancestors donated the land for, and the first marker is a 3rd great grandfather. Another Confederate Army Veteran, same cemetary. This one is at another cemetary, not to be named for obvious reasons. The following are at the same cemetary. Another CSA veteran This one is just heartbreaking This stone at another cemetary is explaining some history of the cemetary.
I have a young lady who is restoring the graveyard on my farm for her Eagle Scout project. A cemetery on my road has a handful of veterans, including one Confederate, that I tend to, keeping the base level, debris cleared, as it is right next to the woods. Have some D2 that I will treat it with.
One of my favorites in my area. The inscripton for the husband says, "Gone to happy hunting grounds" for the wife it reads, " A great gal and understanding wife."
I looked at taking a hanging branch out of this oak tree up on an old homestead farm up on the mountain late last winter, it was hanging over the graves of some distant relatives of mine, the small family cemetery has been overtaken by the woods long ago but the headstones are all mostly still intact. I circled a few of the headstones which as you can see are directly below the huge limb hanging in the tree. The landowner marked and removed the headstones from that location (so as not to damage them) in preparation for me to remove the hanger, only to have the hanger crash out of the tree on its own. He has since cleaned up the mess and reinstaled the headstones back in their exact original locations. Next time I go up there I'll have to get pics of the stones. The one would be a great great great great great grandfather of mine (John Troxell), born 1770 died 1826 if memory serves me correctly. Next time I'm up ther I'll get some pics. I want to take my dad to that location sometime this fall or winter to see it.
My fave is in Key West, sorry no picture. It lists the guy's name, date of birth and death and simply reads: "I told you I was sick." Then there is a large piece of pink quartz with a bronze plaque, in a cemetery in Harpers Ferry, WV. It marks the grave of a woman who passed in the mid 1930's. That lady did everything, including being a C.P.O. in the U. S. Navy from 1919 to 1925. She had to be the first. She was amazing!
I have (or had) pictures of grave markers for my family tree. I have a "great uncle inlaw (?)", my Ggrandfather's wife's Dad. Regardless of the relationship he has white Military Gravestone with a cross on it. After a decade of parading around that cold windy snowy cemetery, always of course in heels, not warm dress outfits etc., while I had an hour or tow between appts down near Denver, I found my Dad's long lost older brothers grave since he died from epidemic menegitis ~1930, and WWW and I paid for a headstone for boy that died after all these years since 1930/1. I'd love to show you the thread here where members helped choose his marker and my Dad (RIP) chose the words but I can't find it.
