Wilsons Sandbox

Hi all. This will be my first post on this site(or any other). Jim Sherlock's post on the old graveyard he found struck a chord with me. A week ago my wife and I were riding our bikes( her's a '02 650 V-star, mine a '99 klr650). We were on Rt. 784 in n.e.KY, Lewis co. on the west side of the road, Greenup co. on the east. We stopped at a suprisingly large(for this area) cemetary on the Lewis side. There was a gravel drive that circled the graveyard. At the back of the cemetary, almost 200 yards from the road, was a stand of "creek" stone markers. Most of these tombstones had the last name of "Stone" scratched in them. The earliest date we could read on these stones was "died 1823". As we walked toward the front of cemetary,there were more "store bought" markers. We saw about 20 white marble markers, in good shape, that seemed to have been put on Civil War vet. graves( Ky. and Oh. military).One set of small stones in a row spoke of a family's pain: from 1914 to 1919, none of the children buried beneath lived more than three months. The closer we got to the road, the newer the graves; it looked like about 200 graves in the cemetary, the newest "died 1999". There seemed to be about 15 families represented. The Stone family progressed with us, in small plots, as we wandered toward the east. Then, in the last row, next to the road, a row of "creek" stones with the name "Stone" chisled in them, the latest "died 1973". The Stone family may not have been wealthy, but they did make their stand. CEB