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Posted on 1/11/24 at 7:28 pm to
Posted by Reservoir dawg
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Posted on 1/11/24 at 7:28 pm to
It's interesting and depressing at the same time.

I stumbled upon a graveyard in the woods when I was a kid. The headstones were so old they were almost impossible to read. The earliest dates were 1800s to about 1910. It was so old mature trees had grown through the burial plots and some of the caskets or boxes had recessed deeper into the ground.

I could find it today. But there was no sign, no fencing, nothing. Just trees and roots. It could have been a gravesite for slaves or native Americans.
This post was edited on 1/11/24 at 7:40 pm
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
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Posted on 1/11/24 at 10:59 pm to
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I stumbled upon a graveyard in the woods when I was a kid. The headstones were so old they were almost impossible to read.



I ran into the same thing while out hunting rabbits one day when I lived in Jackson, MS.

I had run across the Ross Barnet Reservoir to a heavily wooded area around Pelahatchie Bay I wanted to hunt and started walking through the woods only to stumble on an old graveyard that looked to be totally forgotten about. Tall weeds, scrub trees growing by the graves, headstones all covered in algae and damn near impossible to read.

To see all those graves, obviously forgotten to time was a bit eerie----and sad at the same time.
Posted by Drank
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Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:36 am to
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It could have been a gravesite for slaves or native Americans.

Neither. Just rural folk from the late 19th and early 20th century.
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