A Look In To History, Pt.2 by gypsyflame

Other Apps • Historical • posted on Dec 17, 2009

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Most families farmed during these times. If you can find photographs of the land back in the 1800's you will see how the land was cleared all the way to the base of the cliffs, crops grew along the creek, cattle and sheep grazed on the hills. You'd see swinging bridges and grist mills all up and down the creek. Mail was delivered on horseback Here is a list of the cemetaries you can find and walk through in the park...Katy Blevins Cemetery, Hattie Blevins Cemetery, Terry Cemetery, Dirt Rockhouse Cemetery, Charit Creek Cemetery, Hatfield Cemetery, Owens Cemetery, Slaven Cemetery, Dewey-Phillips Cemetery, King Cemetery, Newt King Cemetery, Barr Cemetery, Waters Cemetery and there are quite a few that have no name at all. Walking through some of these cemeteries left me with an uncanny feeling of gloom because of the graves left standing, unamed, possibly even forgotten by now, the only thing there to show us that a person who lived is now buried there is a small broken, faded stone with no name. The Hattie Blevins Cemetery contains graves of families known as Blevins, Slaven, Burke and Crabtree. A lot of the graves in this cemetery are nothing more than rocks with little or no descriptions left to read on the tombstones. The cemetery along with other cemeteries in the park are not maintained by the park but instead by living family members. ZOOM IN FOR DETAIL

Comments (21)

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lior

10:56AM | Thu, 17 December 2009

Excellent collage!!!

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mgtcs

11:36AM | Thu, 17 December 2009

Amazing collage my friend, excellent work!

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pennykay

1:06PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

Interesting info and great work on the collage!

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mermaid

1:15PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

a very special and secluded little cemetry and a fine collage

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eekdog

1:17PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

thanks for sharing your history and photo marlene. lol steve

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vaggabondd

1:56PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

very nice collage my friend

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adrie

3:21PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

Beautiful collage my friend, nice capture.

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DarkStormCrow

3:43PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

Nice shot again, well done...

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jocko500

5:08PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

very good shot.I like to walk in them to sometimes to see what what

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Blush

6:36PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

Awesome capture Hugs Your Ky sis Susan~

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Faemike55

6:41PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

Fantastic collection of pictures and a look at history

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mikeerson

7:18PM | Thu, 17 December 2009

I like to go to old Cemetarys, you find some great art.... that lower grave, did that person die on Christmas 1903???

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gypsyflame

12:45AM | Fri, 18 December 2009

yes he did Mikeerson

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Ridley5

10:27AM | Fri, 18 December 2009

Reminds me of the small town in which I spent my formative years. Nice shot!

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Flint_Hawk

12:14PM | Fri, 18 December 2009

There's an old pioneer cemetary in our town that contains a lot of history like this!

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davidoblad

5:27PM | Sat, 19 December 2009

Interesting indeed. Hugs Dave :^)

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DennisReed

7:28PM | Sat, 19 December 2009

I'm happy you enjoyed the visit there Marley!!

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three_grrr

8:09PM | Sun, 20 December 2009

I am so enjoying this tour of the little cemeteries and the history. There are many small ones scattered in the country around here, too. Little family plots. We've never stopped, but I think now when spring comes around, I will ask my husband to stop at some of these little burial grounds.

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