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The Red Hill Cemetery #2 |
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The Red Hill
Cemetery #2 is located located one mile east of Red Hill Church at
the Junction of Earls Hollow and Russell Road. |
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Our deepest thanks and
appreciation goes out to Arion & Jean Cole, for all their hard work, and
for providing the following information and photographs below. |
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Field Stones counted in
Red Hill Cemetery #2 |
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"While I was taking
photos of the Grave Stones in the cemetery, my wife, Mary Jean Cole,
counted the graves marked by field stones and found the count to be 114
with possibly more that sank beneath the sod as the years went by. The
number of unmarked graves is unknown to us at this time. We think
further research thru the ranks of the older people of the families
buried here might disclose more names and dates on the graves with no
stones and/or field stones. I did see one grave marked with only a small
wooden cross about 6 � high and feel someone in the area has knowledge
of who lies under this small wooden cross." |
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"Dear Ancestor" |
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Your
tombstone stands among the rest; neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out on polished marbled
stone.
It reaches out to all who care. It is too late to mourn.
You didn�t know that I exist. You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells in you, in flesh, in blood, in
bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our
own.
Dear ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years
ago,
Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved
you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved.
I wonder if you knew.
That some day I would find this spot and come to visit
you. |
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Author
Unknown |
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Note: My wife Jean found
this in an Indiana cemetery several years and thought it would be nice
to include it with the tombstones of her ancestors. |
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