Today we celebrate Aluminum!

[letsbike]

Happy Holiday to my fine friends worldwide.

 

[black lightning 1987]

I celebrated by mowing the cemetery on my farm. There's a War of 1812 vet buried there, so I always try to have it looking nice on holidays. Relatively few 1812 vets buried in IL - the next closest is 35 miles away.

 

[letsbike]

I rode my bicycle and stopped by an out of the way cemetery as well. It's oldest Graves are from the mid 1830's; but the interpretive sign said that there are most likely older burials there as well. There was also an area of the cemetery that the sign said has many unmarked graves. Paupers, Slaves. All part of our collective history.

 

[black lightning 1987]

There's a country cemetery near me that has very few intact stones. Most are broken or unreadable. I don't know if there's a record somewhere of who is buried there. I've looked at several different cemeteries for family members from the 1800s. A lot of stones from that era are so weathered that little is legible.

 

[letsbike]

Try taking blank paper and a crayon and doing a rubbing of the stone. A lot of times you can read everything fairly well. I've used this technique quite a bit.

 

[kjop]

Try taking blank paper and a crayon and doing a rubbing of the stone. A lot of times you can read everything fairly well. I've used this technique quite a bit.

thats awesome!

 

[black lightning 1987]

Try taking blank paper and a crayon and doing a rubbing of the stone. A lot of times you can read everything fairly well. I've used this technique quite a bit.

The only problem is I'd have to do that to a lot of stones to find the correct one(s).