Family Cemetery

[Erby]

Isn't the first one I ran into. There's quite of few of these small old cemeteries around Central Kentucky.

This one was at the back of the house I inspected this afternoon, at the top of the knoll just off the 13th green of the golf course.

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Born in 1817 - Died in 1891. Long life for back then.

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[Nolan Kienitz]

Tons of history all around us and a lot of it going by the wayside.

Such things intrigue the heck out of me and I absorb all I can in my older age.

I love history and try to learn all I can.

[kurt]

Yeah, standing on the knoll, imagining what it might have been like 150-175 years ago, the rapid changes, .......that's something. Ties the centuries together.

Our time would be unimaginable to the folks resting there.

[Erby]

Now, a part of Lexington.

Then, miles and miles from Lexington.

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[John Kogel]

I'll bet they wouldn't believe their woodlots and fields would become playgrounds for people whose only exercise was hitting a little ball with a stick. []

[Tom Raymond]

What I find truly amazing is that had the folks there decided to occupy Wall St, they'd be heavily armed not armed with tents.

If only our ruling class knew just how lucky they are...

[Jim Baird]

Eighteen years ago I found a 600 year-old clay pot on a sloped ditch cut beside a road not a half mile from my house. It was in approx 40 pieces, so many I had to look around for a littered drinking cup to hold them all. When I got home and cleaned off the dirt, the pieces began to fit together, until I had every piece I had picked up glued together to make about 2/3 of the original vessel.

Photos shown to an archeologist brought his reply that the makers may have spoken Hichiti or Creek, that the woods were full of them at that time, that my find indicated a homesite most likely. I will post photo when I find it on the other computer.

There is, of course no trace of the "community" now.

[kurt]

Wow. That's cool.

Archaeologists are determining that there were substantially communities throughout America that our conventional history tends to minimize.

The "city" of Cahokia by St. Louis supposedly had tens of thousands of residents, surrounded by thousands of square miles of reasonably developed agriculture. CW says it was empty plains land.