Took my son turkey hunting a couple days ago and found this grave out in the woods. It belongs to W W Bourland. From what I've found, this is the son of the confederate colonel who was responsible for the great hanging in Gainsville, TX. The largest mass lynching ever. Really interesting history connected to this family. Of course I cannot get the pictures to load. I don't know why it's so difficult to load pictures on here.

Not difficult at all. Are you getting an error message?

I was asked to trap badgers at a old cemetery last summer sad headstones there smaller then a cereal box some only read Mom or Dad no last names or dates.

That's super cool. Just a random gravestone out in the woods?

Cool, I got a area that has a old headstone says C K 1891 on it.
Get coyotes there every year.

Ooops meant headstone, lol

Use photo re sizer ap. Photos load fast then 600x800pxls.

I use to have a piece of property with a family grave yard on it. It had one large headstone that said Pryor family with the dates of the 2 parents. Also had 4 of the small round top marble headstones that said infant son died 1856, ...1857....1858....1859. 4 stones for 4 infant sons. Always felt kinda sad about their loss when I was cleaning up the sight.

Two of us where hunting grouse a number of years back and came across an old cemetery from the turn of the century. Most appeared to be young WWI soldiers with military style head stones. Recently on the news it was reported the the cemetery had been rediscovered again and local VFW and other local organizations removed brush and trees that had over grown the place, cleaned it up real nice too.

Used to fish a creek s of beaver Oklahoma for flatheads. We parked at the old cemetery, and would walk down the hill to the water. One day we got the bug and went and looked at the 'stones. All kids, dead from the spanish flu id guess, hundreds of em.

After that, we called it the dead baby cemetery.

We were just in Deadwood, SD.
Wild Bill and Calamity Janes Gravesite at Mt. Mariah Graveyard ...Beautiful resting place.

There are a lot of small, old family plots around here. It used to be common to have a family cemetery on the farm where generations of the same family are buried. What always struck me about the very old ones are the high number of young children in them.

In the old pioneer cemetery close to my house I was always impressed by how many young mothers and infant children were buried there. Surviving childbirths was precarious.

We have one on property I trap , was a train wreck 1892, there is about a dozen headstones in a little patch of woods next to the tracks.
http://www.gendisasters.com/ohio/468/shreve%2C-oh-train-wreck%2C-sept-1892

I know many of us trappers yearn for the olden frontier days. As many of you have posted, many tours of 19th century cemeteries state the fact that childbirth and infancy were oft a perilous venture. I am very thankful for modern medicine. In the Deep South, yellow fever was an epidemic. Towns and cities were completely wiped out. Some cemeteries here are solely for yellow fever burials. It was a mosquito borne disease. Near rivers was a prime place to build a town for shipping, but they didn't know the dangers of yellow fever. Google yellow fever Grenada MS. It's heartbreaking.

It's a large headstone and concrete tomb in the middle of nowhere.

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