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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: jdhunter2011]
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03/06/25 12:06 PM
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Irishguy
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House I grew up in was an original Log 2 story dogtrot style over 200 years old. Family cemetery is still there but I have not been to it in years. Some of the graves date back to the late 1800's. Many are illegible now. As a kid I remember a family from Texas coming to visit to see the cemetery. One of the men died and as the story goes they "Pickled" him until family from Texas could return for the burial. The story of the pickled man was supposedly the ghost that haunted the house. Was it my imagination or was it really haunted? I dont know, but I had friends who would not spend the night there more than once.
My grandfather has 3 brothers buried in the cemetery at Jack McDowell cove in Bankhead. Im sure Mbrock and others know of it. Best I remember, one was still birth, one died shortly after birth, and one was 10-12 and was run over by a wagon wheel and died. My Dad is the genealogist and has visited 100's of cemeteries all over the south. In college at Athens state we did a lab in the cemetery across from the road and I spent days there researching death/birth rates by decade. It was pretty cool to be able to tie those rates back through history based on the world events and diseases at the time. Great story. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/06/25 04:26 PM
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Fayetteville TN Via Selma
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You should make a ride on your motorbike one day to Dallas County and go to Old Live Oak Cemetary and the one in Old Cahaba. If it is during a time when I will be back I will be glad to give you the backstory on many of the OLO graves. Really fascinating. Or go during Pilgrimage weekend when they do tours and have actors in costume at the graves to tell the story of the person buried there.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: jawbone]
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03/06/25 07:45 PM
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Lickskillet, AL
Irishguy
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You should make a ride on your motorbike one day to Dallas County and go to Old Live Oak Cemetary and the one in Old Cahaba. If it is during a time when I will be back I will be glad to give you the backstory on many of the OLO graves. Really fascinating. Or go during Pilgrimage weekend when they do tours and have actors in costume at the graves to tell the story of the person buried there. I think I have been there. That whole Cahaba town is seemingly very creepy for some reason and I'm not usually creeped out by anything.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/06/25 08:17 PM
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Boxes Cove
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There's a lot of old family Cemeteries way back in the mountains in Paint Rock Valley. Folks used to live back in the mountains and try to scratch out a life. Many of them made whisky .
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/06/25 08:41 PM
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North Alabama
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Cool headstones and surrounding scenery! I happened upon an old cemetery in Kansas when taking a mid day break from a really warm day of bowhunting. The oldest markers were for the O apostrophe Irish that first settled that area in the mid/late 1700s. There were some fantastic headstones and then there was the brief supernatural experience that I had and will never forget.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/07/25 09:22 PM
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alex city
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Thanks for posting this, there is a cemetery on Lake Martin at New Hope Church, my wife find it very intriguing.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/07/25 09:42 PM
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I'm not big on cemeteries. But I do remember as a child, going to an old confederate cemetery and cleaning it up with the entire extended family. Probably 50 of us.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/07/25 09:44 PM
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Old Mossy Horns
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I can spend hours amongst the dead, reading markers, praying, reflecting, daydreaming and in general, just recharging my batteries or thinking about my own existence. Cemeteries are some of the most peaceful places I know. OK, now here's the weird part. Fairly often even if I never knew the souls to which the bodies belonged, I can feel a sort of connection to some of them, almost like we were friends.
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/08/25 07:10 AM
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Just go to the cemetery in Shiloh . It gives me the chills every time . Any one want day trip from anywhere in north al needs visit the Shiloh park . I go a lot because I live close . Have family there .
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Re: Old Cemeteries...
[Re: woodduck]
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03/08/25 08:51 AM
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2 old cemeteries just outside the town of Gainesville ala are very cool. One is called Old Fellows I think. The one on the other side of town I can’t recall the name but it has a bunch of civil war graves and there use to be a cannon there supposedly gotten out of the tombigbee river nearby. Not sure on the hx of the cannon but it’s a cool story anyway. Not sure if the cannon is still there or not it’s been years prob 10 years since I last went to it. Reckon that may be Odd Fellows? There used to be a fraternal order by that name. At one time was one of the largest in the world, haven't heard of them in years though.
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