kinsel-konnection wrote:
I visited this cemetery in February 2003. The burial ground is situated on private property. It is adjacent to the exterior side door of the house on that land. The current tenants told me a story about a previous owner - a farmer, who did not like the idea of seeing a graveyard when he looked out of his window or door.
At first, the man planted bushes to to try and camouflage the monuments. When that didn't provide the desired outcome, he made the decision to lay all of the tombstones down flat. Instead of putting each marker on top of its rightful grave, he positioned the stone slabs together like pieces in a puzzle, arranging them into rectangular or squared sections according to family members. The farmer framed the perimeter of each enclosed patch by cordoning them off with railroad ties. I recollect there are about 4 or 5 of these groupings. The entire cemetery was then surrounded with white ranch-style fencing.
Because the majority of markers in this cemetery are staged horizontally on the ground, I found some of the slabs to be slightly overlapping or totally on top of one another. As time passed, several of the stones sank deeper into the earth, becoming embedded. I was able to shift some of them, but many monuments were entirely too heavy to move. They had to be partially excavated to expose their facades. I was able to dig out some of the dirt around them. I also cleared away a lot of debris to fully or partially expose inscriptions before photographing.
Naming issues may be a challenging ordeal when looking up a particular memorial for a relative or loved one. This man was actually called Fred during his lifetime, although his given birth name was Alfred. The picture of his tombstone is rather misleading.
On initial observation, it appears that his first name is merely Fred. In actuality the tombstone is inscribed with his full first name - Alfred. If you look closely at the photo, a portion of the upper left-hand corner of his stone is covered beneath the lower right-hand corner of another marker.
Using a small tapered branch as a lever, I raised the stone that overlapped the QUIGLEY marker long enough to view the full first name inscription as A-L-F-R-E-D. The first and second letters, A and L, respectively, had previously been obscured.
I also noted an existing diagonal crack separating the A-L portion of the uncovered corner from the remaining visible F-R-E-D part of the QUIGLEY memorial.
K. KINSEL
I visited this cemetery in February 2003. The burial ground is situated on private property. It is adjacent to the exterior side door of the house on that land. The current tenants told me a story about a previous owner - a farmer, who did not like the idea of seeing a graveyard when he looked out of his window or door.
At first, the man planted bushes to to try and camouflage the monuments. When that didn't provide the desired outcome, he made the decision to lay all of the tombstones down flat. Instead of putting each marker on top of its rightful grave, he positioned the stone slabs together like pieces in a puzzle, arranging them into rectangular or squared sections according to family members. The farmer framed the perimeter of each enclosed patch by cordoning them off with railroad ties. I recollect there are about 4 or 5 of these groupings. The entire cemetery was then surrounded with white ranch-style fencing.
Because the majority of markers in this cemetery are staged horizontally on the ground, I found some of the slabs to be slightly overlapping or totally on top of one another. As time passed, several of the stones sank deeper into the earth, becoming embedded. I was able to shift some of them, but many monuments were entirely too heavy to move. They had to be partially excavated to expose their facades. I was able to dig out some of the dirt around them. I also cleared away a lot of debris to fully or partially expose inscriptions before photographing.
Naming issues may be a challenging ordeal when looking up a particular memorial for a relative or loved one. This man was actually called Fred during his lifetime, although his given birth name was Alfred. The picture of his tombstone is rather misleading.
On initial observation, it appears that his first name is merely Fred. In actuality the tombstone is inscribed with his full first name - Alfred. If you look closely at the photo, a portion of the upper left-hand corner of his stone is covered beneath the lower right-hand corner of another marker.
Using a small tapered branch as a lever, I raised the stone that overlapped the QUIGLEY marker long enough to view the full first name inscription as A-L-F-R-E-D. The first and second letters, A and L, respectively, had previously been obscured.
I also noted an existing diagonal crack separating the A-L portion of the uncovered corner from the remaining visible F-R-E-D part of the QUIGLEY memorial.
K. KINSEL
kinsel-konnection wrote:
I visited this cemetery in February 2003. The burial ground is situated on private property. It is adjacent to the exterior side door of the house on that land. The current tenants told me a story about a previous owner - a farmer, who did not like the idea of seeing a graveyard when he looked out of his window or door.
At first, the man planted bushes to to try and camouflage the monuments. When that didn't provide the desired outcome, he made the decision to lay all of the tombstones down flat. Instead of putting each marker on top of its rightful grave, he positioned the stone slabs together like pieces in a puzzle, arranging them into rectangular or squared sections according to family members. The farmer framed the perimeter of each enclosed patch by cordoning them off with railroad ties. I recollect there are about 4 or 5 of these groupings. The entire cemetery was then surrounded with white ranch-style fencing.
Because the majority of markers in this cemetery are staged horizontally on the ground, I found some of the slabs to be slightly overlapping or totally on top of one another. As time passed, several of the stones sank deeper into the earth, becoming embedded. I was able to shift some of them, but many monuments were entirely too heavy to move. They had to be partially excavated to expose their facades. I was able to dig out some of the dirt around them. I also cleared away a lot of debris to fully or partially expose inscriptions before photographing.
Naming issues may be a challenging ordeal when looking up a particular memorial for a relative or loved one. This man was actually called Fred during his lifetime, although his given birth name was Alfred. The picture of his tombstone is rather misleading.
On initial observation, it appears that his first name is merely Fred. In actuality the tombstone is inscribed with his full first name - Alfred. If you look closely at the photo, a portion of the upper left-hand corner of his stone is covered beneath the lower right-hand corner of another marker.
Using a small tapered branch as a lever, I raised the stone that overlapped the QUIGLEY marker long enough to view the full first name inscription as A-L-F-R-E-D. The first and second letters, A and L, respectively, had previously been obscured.
I also noted an existing diagonal crack separating the A-L portion of the uncovered corner from the remaining visible F-R-E-D part of the QUIGLEY memorial.
K. KINSEL
I visited this cemetery in February 2003. The burial ground is situated on private property. It is adjacent to the exterior side door of the house on that land. The current tenants told me a story about a previous owner - a farmer, who did not like the idea of seeing a graveyard when he looked out of his window or door.
At first, the man planted bushes to to try and camouflage the monuments. When that didn't provide the desired outcome, he made the decision to lay all of the tombstones down flat. Instead of putting each marker on top of its rightful grave, he positioned the stone slabs together like pieces in a puzzle, arranging them into rectangular or squared sections according to family members. The farmer framed the perimeter of each enclosed patch by cordoning them off with railroad ties. I recollect there are about 4 or 5 of these groupings. The entire cemetery was then surrounded with white ranch-style fencing.
Because the majority of markers in this cemetery are staged horizontally on the ground, I found some of the slabs to be slightly overlapping or totally on top of one another. As time passed, several of the stones sank deeper into the earth, becoming embedded. I was able to shift some of them, but many monuments were entirely too heavy to move. They had to be partially excavated to expose their facades. I was able to dig out some of the dirt around them. I also cleared away a lot of debris to fully or partially expose inscriptions before photographing.
Naming issues may be a challenging ordeal when looking up a particular memorial for a relative or loved one. This man was actually called Fred during his lifetime, although his given birth name was Alfred. The picture of his tombstone is rather misleading.
On initial observation, it appears that his first name is merely Fred. In actuality the tombstone is inscribed with his full first name - Alfred. If you look closely at the photo, a portion of the upper left-hand corner of his stone is covered beneath the lower right-hand corner of another marker.
Using a small tapered branch as a lever, I raised the stone that overlapped the QUIGLEY marker long enough to view the full first name inscription as A-L-F-R-E-D. The first and second letters, A and L, respectively, had previously been obscured.
I also noted an existing diagonal crack separating the A-L portion of the uncovered corner from the remaining visible F-R-E-D part of the QUIGLEY memorial.
K. KINSEL
Inscription
ALFRED QUIGLEY
DIED
Apr. 25, 1859
AGED
35 Yrs. 1 Mo.
& 17 Ds.
Family Members
Parents
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