tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669511.post111691927713927562..comments2024-01-27T15:59:50.625-06:00Comments on The Oubliette: the cemeteries of madison countyMirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413028900582387026noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669511.post-1117131755931973552005-05-26T13:22:00.000-05:002005-05-26T13:22:00.000-05:00Generally I love walking through old cemeteries, b...Generally I love walking through old cemeteries, but Indian Creek bothered me. I believe it is a historically black cemetery, and it shows, some marked only with cinder blocks, if anything they were marked with anything at all. <BR/><BR/>I've been through plenty of very old cemeteries, usually family plots of the first settlers of an area. The headstones were made by the families, names and datesMirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08413028900582387026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669511.post-1117108871298262702005-05-26T07:01:00.000-05:002005-05-26T07:01:00.000-05:00The wife and I own some woods in the Missouri Ozar...The wife and I own some woods in the Missouri Ozarks that are covered with dozens of human-sized mounds. These might be burial mounds of Osage Indians. (Of course if they are, it is illegal to dig them up.) Curiously, they are all aligned east/west, which makes me think they are a human construction. It doesn't bother me to walk the woods amidst all of these graves. There is a sense of continuityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669511.post-1116948767740252212005-05-24T10:32:00.000-05:002005-05-24T10:32:00.000-05:00Love the cemetery pics (and those below too). I'm ...Love the cemetery pics (and those below too). I'm always fascinated by cemeteries.<BR/><BR/>In the first pic it looks like a couple of sassafras trees are starting to grow there. Nice.Ruralityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616461213179182660noreply@blogger.com