Wordless Wednesday

Medlin Cemetery

388

Forever lost?
Forever remembered?

Ft. Sill Post Cemetery

Unknown

Mt. Vernon Cemetery

Unknown...

 ...at least to me.

It is headstones like this that leave me with many questions. It's possible the cemetery has names for this grave. It's one I visited an hour away.

Gypsum Hill Cemetery

Unknown

Oh how I wish I knew who this is?
Pleasant View [Huntsville] Cemetery.

Tombstone Photo of the Week

Unknown grave.

Lakin Cemetery.

GYR Carnival - Anonymous Graves

There are many anonymous graves that pull my heartstrings. In our small Smith Family Cemetery, located in Houston County, Alabama, are 5 unmarked graves all in a row. I can only imagine that the missing ancestors I'm looking for are there but I have no way to prove it. Even if they are not my direct ancestors it is sad I may never know who they are.
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It doesn't take long for mother nature to attempt to reclaim this one acre plot. My first visit found few visible headstones and plenty of briars. It gets cleaned off about once a year.
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My GG grandfather, Henry Dennis Smith and his parents, Benjamin F. Smith and Mary Emmer Goodman are buried there. Mary died young and BF remarried and his second wife along with children from both marriages are all there. Mary's father, Malachi Dennis Goodman, died in the civil war. Is he here? Mary's mother, Nancy Anderson Goodman, was last known to live with her son-in-law [along with his new mother-in-law] in the Federal census. Is she here?

Locally, here in Kansas, I spend a lot of time at the Eastside Cemetery. In the original potter's field, now called city ground, is a grave that catches my eye each time I drive in. I blogged about it last year. I'm afraid there may never be a name associated with it.

This is a carnival posting for The Association of Graveyard Rabbits.

Tombstone Photo of the Week

Unknown Grave
Springdale Cemetery

Unknown Mother

I had an opportunity to visit a few more cemeteries over Thanksgiving. We spent the long weekend with our son at Ft. Sill, OK. All but 1 of the 7 cemeteries we stopped to visit were on post.

Located on post:
Apache [on Beef Creek] - burial location of Geronimo
Apache North
Apache South
Comanche Missionary
Ft. Sill Post Cemetery
Otipoby

Located off post in Lawton:
Highland



This photo was taken at the Ft. Sill Post Cemetery. I walked away sad. With the rich history of this area I can imagine many scenarios as to how this mother and infant are now remembered as unknown.

Cemetery Photograph Update
I updated my list of cemeteries I have taken photographs in and my new count is 165. Visit the link to view this list in PDF format.

There are always so many interesting headstones to blog about and in the days ahead I'll post about some from my recent trip.

Something I found funny during this trip - After our cemetery visits I looked across the room to see my son using his laptop to view the cemetery photos he had taken. Since both his and my husband's eyes glaze over when the subject of genealogy, cemeteries & family history come up, I was tickled he found this piece of history interesting enough to take photos in the cemeteries. His graduation gift from basic combat training was a new digital camera and he used it to take some really nice panoramic photos of the cemetery and landscape. I'll share one later if he remembers to email it to his Mom.

Beautiful unknowns

Some whisper while others cry out, these beautiful unknowns.

From these cemeteries:

Bean, Geneseo & Forest Home