Cherub
Fieldstone Grave Marker
These were taken a couple of weeks ago, at Splinter Ridge Cemetery. It was only the second time I’ve seen fieldstone markers, and the first time I’ve seen one inscribed, albeit not fully. It looks like whoever carved the inscription gave up after starting the second line. So far, all of the fieldstone markers I’ve seen have been unshaped, raw pieces of stone.
Mary Wife of Isaac Conyers Died Oct. 24, 1857
I always hate seeing women’s headstones that just list her as the wife of some dude. I searched Ancestry.com for to see if I could figure out her maiden name, but all I turned up were unsourced public trees, some of which have impossible information. As in, several people have attached my Findagrave record to their trees for a Mary M. Tharp. There was a Mary M. Tharp who married an Isaac Conyers in Indiana, but that marriage occurred after this Mary died.
And then someone requested that I update the Findagrave record with information that I thought was suspect. I declined. So I guess they complained and had the information added by someone at Findagrave. I have no reason to believe her maiden name was Burton, or that these linked folks are her family. As far as I can tell, the Mary Burton who married Isaac Conyers lived and died in Bath County, Kentucky in 1868.
As I was walking around the older part of the cemetery, I kept getting whiffs of something sweet-smelling. I couldn’t figure out what it was, because none of the flowers growing there were strongly scented. I finally figured out the smell was coming from a flowering locust tree behind the church.
I posted another photo of her, taken from below, but it didn’t show the spider webs covering her head. There were lots of spiders and flies and tiger beetles at this cemetery.
Another shot from last week’s trip to Liberty Methodist Protestant Cemetery. I don’t understand the concept of decorating graves for Christmas, but leaving the decorations up until the tree is dead makes even even less sense.
I’ve never really used Picnik PicMonkey (an on-line photo editing utility), but a couple of the effects are kind of fun, so I’ve been playing around with it. This is yesterday’s rainbow, the Very Long Barn, and Beck Chapel & Dunn Cemetery, all edited in PicMonkey with the Orton-izer. I’ve tried an Orton action for Photoshop and wasn’t too impressed with the results. PicMonkey seems to do a better job of it.
Angel
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Maiden
And another cemetery outhouse. Kind of weird, but also pretty clever. When an active cemetery is literally in the middle of nowhere, having a place to go when ya’ gotta go is a good idea.
Liberty Methodist Protestant Cemetery is still in use, but there are a lot of old stones there. It’s a picturesque place, especially the back corner, which shares a fence row with a wooded pasture full of cows.
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Spider Web, James S. and Elliza Gentry grave, Liberty Methodist Protestant Cemetery
red paper boat 