Happy New Year!
This past September my dad and I cleaned up a cemetery. Just the two of us. It was wonderful. We have plenty left to do of course, but seeing as the cemetery is far from where I live... 1200 miles give or take... I won't be able to get there for a little while.
If anyone gets the opportunity to do so, clean up a cemetery. The dead will thank you.
Here are some before and after pics. There are some on findagrave that predate even my photos. Go take a look.
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| July 2013 |
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| Sept 2013 |
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| yes that's the same stone |
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| Before |
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| After. Look at all of that back there!! |
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| There's actually a stone barely sticking out to the right of this one |
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| We found about six stones we didn't see on our first trip. |
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| See anything? There's a tombstone in there. |
Next time I would like to uncover the stones. Get rid of more branches and debris. Heck if I could dig up bodies to do an anthropological analysis on them I would. ... ... ... That wouldn't be illegal would it?
Hi Chloe...my name is Elizabeth crawford. My email is eshpah75@gmail.com. im on find a grave looking at photos you added. A lot of the crawford stones are my family. Generations of grandparents. Today is 11/14/2021. My sister and I are going to vanderslice cemetery tomorrow to try to find them. I hear its in bad shape with the middle washed out in a flood in 1905. And a steep climb to the other side of the gully. If its manageable we will go back in the spring and try to clean it up
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