Date: 9/13/2005 7:28:00 AM
From Authorid: 28848
I used to hang out in a really old cemetary when I was a kid, I took some picks there years ago but never got them developed. Neat Post!!  |
Date: 9/13/2005 7:39:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30747
Wouldn't it be cool is you got them developed RM and there was something spooky in them? I take pictures and sometimes get little things I question but so far...no full apparition or anything. I'm not so sure I would want to see that. *smiles*  |
Date: 9/13/2005 7:44:00 AM
From Authorid: 10245
I love the little out of the way family plots that we have around here. The graves are old, the weeds are high and no one minds that I peek around, but I still feel weird about it. Our big cemetary in town has graves that go back to 1826... the first person buried there was the original owner/builder of my house. That's my most famous   |
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Date: 9/13/2005 7:46:00 AM
From Authorid: 10245
I take pictures, too nothing odd shows up for me, either. |
Date: 9/13/2005 7:48:00 AM
From Authorid: 62876
I don't find this morbid at all. We do the same thing. They are fascinating for some reason. There is a cemetary in Cinti that is called Springrove and it holds all of the Cinti history, with big names such as the Proctor and Gamble families, etc.... There is also William Henry Harrison, the 9th president that is buried in a memorial not far from here. We haven't gone grave touring since the kids were born though. I don't know how much a 4 year old and 9 year old would dig it. Cool Post!!!  |
Date: 9/13/2005 8:03:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30747
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this can be interesting. HipChicSis it sounds like you have so many cool graves around you. Would you believe my son was 12 when we first took him and he was totally "digging it". LOL That is until Jay got cute and shoved him into an abandoned crypt. That wasn't cool at all.  Merc, I love the family plots but I don't bother with them much. There is this one monument that sticks out in the middle of a corn field that I'm wondering about. It's a beautiful monument that must be for the farmer who owned the land...That's what I'm thinking. I'm very curious about the dead and the lives they had. Must be my interest in history or I'm just nosy. Could be both. *smiles* |
Date: 9/13/2005 8:18:00 AM
From Authorid: 10773
Nah, I don't go grave-hunting lol, but it sounds like an interesting hobby.  Years ago, for an English class, I went with a cousin to a cemetary. She had to copy a random tombstone (with a crayon, you know what I mean?) and then make up a story about the person and how he/she died. I always thought it was pretty neat, and I remember the girl's name was Velma M (my cousin called her Velma May).  I don't think I've seen any famous person's tomb, though.  |
Date: 9/13/2005 8:24:00 AM
From Authorid: 53284
We hiked to the top of a hill near where I live. It is private land. There was a single gravestone, lying down near a huge tree. The grave stone was pretty much hidden in the grass and weeds. I always wondered if this was one of the first residents of the area.  |
Date: 9/13/2005 8:25:00 AM
From Authorid: 48809
I don't see anything morbid about your visits to a cemetary... one can learn a lot of history in these places. My husband and I came upon President Lyndon Johnson's grave several years ago. We were surprised that it was really not as "fancy" a place as we expected! It was kind of off my itself ( but on his property I think)and anyone could drive right up to it... and not even a guard was around!  |
Date: 9/13/2005 8:35:00 AM
From Authorid: 4548
there was an old cemetary on my ex-husband's property. the graves had some really odd sayings on them like "at rest through suffering" and "shut in with God". creepy!  |
Date: 9/13/2005 8:42:00 AM
From Authorid: 63191
I don't consider you morbid, which probably makes ME morbid! *lol* I like to do charcoal headstone tracings. Back home (Pennsylvania) there are a multitude of historic graves, especially in Gettysburg and that area. In my town, there were cemetaries dating back to Colonial times, so it was really intersting. I'll have to find the tracings I did and send you some. I haven't looked here in WI, I lost interest when I moved away from home. USMOMSIS  |
Date: 9/13/2005 8:45:00 AM
From Authorid: 55967
I like doing that, too. My favorite thing is to find the OLDEST grave in the area. I love old. In a cemetary inside the small "town" of Hershey, I found several from the late 1700's. Milton Hershey's great greats are in the Hershey cemetary, and one is from the mid 1700's. Famous ones? Well, Milton Hershey's and family for one (I actually go there a lot. Hershey was a great man who did great things around here, and I'd like the passion he had for serving others). President Eisenhower's, Billy the Kid's (if you believe the body is there. Long story on that one), and probably some I can't remember. When I was little, my family traveled a lot.  |
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Date: 9/13/2005 8:45:00 AM
From Authorid: 63191
I forgot...there are also more headstones with the writing worn off due to time than I can count! It's so cool! USMOM |
Date: 9/13/2005 9:11:00 AM
From Authorid: 7574
That's actually pretty cool..I like cemeteries too. I've been to Arlington once, saw JFK's grave and the tomb of the unknown soldiers. Hmm..We have like 6 Civil War cemeteries in Fredericksburg, and they're pretty cool. I used to drive past them all the time, but I've only been to one. Been to Antietem too. Yeah, can't remember where else.  |
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Date: 9/13/2005 10:19:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30747
OMG I'm so jealous of you who have civil war sites and graveyards around you. Hubby and I are going to Gettysburg next summer. I plan on doing all the cemetary's I can down there. I'm glad ya'll don't think I'm a weirdo. My RL family doesn't understand me. |
Date: 9/13/2005 12:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 58334
I love visiting old cemetaries, it's a pastime of mine It's interesting to see the dates and names and how old everyone was when they died. There's a really old one in our town with dates from the 1700's and 1800's.  |
Date: 9/13/2005 12:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 16671
And I thought I was strange, LOL.  |
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Date: 9/13/2005 1:41:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 30747
LMBO Firstborn is soooo strange she has to say it twice. hehe. Yes, I am a bit on the odd side and LSR, I'm sure you have some AWESOME graveyards over there. I can only dream of what kind of history you get to see every day. I'm jealous. |
Date: 9/13/2005 2:15:00 PM
From Authorid: 63200
I don't find this morbid at all! We just moved to a new neighborhood, and there is a moderately large graveyard in our backyard. My 5 year old LOVES to go up there and just walk around, and have me "read the stones" to him. There is a lot of religious statuary, so we get to talk about God, mortality, and having respect for all the people at rest there. My favorite grave is a very small stone at the very edge of the cemetary. It is the nearest marked grave to the house, and it is a WWI veteran's grave. He didn't die in the war, but it always makes me feel like there is someone there guarding us. (I haven't seen a ghost or anything, and I actually hope the guy's resting in peace and think he is...it's just the idea of him being there that's comforting, somehow.) Other than Arlington, I don't think I've ever seen a famous grave. --EM of GW  |
Date: 9/13/2005 4:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 62100
Very cool Momma..and I don't think that's at all morbid..rather very interesting, and it preserves the memories and names of those gone before us in some way. In my lil old birthplace I used to spend lots of times in our little cemetery. Once when in the Girl Scouts we were working on some sort of badge and we went there and they showed us the burial spot of the first black man from our area who had been permitted to be buried among the whites and it was for his service in one of those wars way back (can't remember all of the particulars..I was only like 9 )...I think it's an awesome hobby!!  |
Date: 9/13/2005 4:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 3835
I have a strong fascination for graveyards. I actually feel at peace amoung the stones and spirits. When I drive past or walk past any graveyard and pour out a positive spiritual energy towards it in reverence of those that crossed over.. I get something given back that cannot be explained in words. I know that I was heard or felt by some kind of Force within the sacred grounds. It feels like a quickening of sorts without all the glamour that movies have depicted. Kind of like super charged tingles I feel trailing from head to toe and outwards all at the exact same moment. (You probably know what I am trying to say, Lol). Graveyards have been very good for me to pick up on orbs, strange lights and appiritions, energies or some kind of vapor that cannot be explained, and on rare occassions, voices. I have not run into any famous stones, but I have been blessed to see the grave of a man who served in a war before WWI, and mourn with his spirit most likely by then because of his stone being broken into three pieces.. and of others that date back as far as the early 1700's. One gravestone that I ran into in some quiet little cemetary of about 9 stones seated in a quiet little nook surrounded by trees and flowers in the middle of nowhere - but two roads intersecting.. was a carved date on a basic large rock that read 1648. That was a really cool find and the energies were faint, but still apparent while sitting next to it with your palm on the rock itself. Another beside that stone was a smaller one carved date was 1645. Perhaps the other stones were family members as the dates were within reason for it to appear as such. And all shared the same last name. Good post!  |
Date: 9/13/2005 5:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 4144
LOL! my friend and i call it gravryard hopping!! we go in one and we just can't leave!!  |
Date: 9/13/2005 5:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 28946
The pledge Of Allegience is not being said at schools these days? Oh my! I cannot believe that it has come to this and feel great sadness...  |
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Date: 9/13/2005 5:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 28946
I forgot to say that I think it's really a nice think to wander among the graves and pay respects to even those that we don't know. It would be awesome to see a famous persons grave and to know that they are resting below. |
Date: 9/15/2005
From Authorid: 26227
My wife and I do once in awhile go looking at graves. We have found some real old graves early 1800's but no famous people. Its kinda interesting.  |
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Date: 9/15/2005 9:26:00 AM
From Authorid: 62100
Sur5er..I LOVE your story..wow, if I could just once experience what you get to feel every single day...amazing.. |
