Grave

[den]

Grave
Originally uploaded by battyden

In the corner of a wheat field in the bush, a long way from town, is a small cemetery. All but one of the graves have vanished under 88 years of leaves, sticks and bark.








My Great Great Great Grandmother.

Comments

[scottrell001.livejournal.com]

That's just wrong for the council to allow the graveyard to be so untidy. Why is it so far from the town?

Den... your family HAVE lived in the area for a very long time?

[(Anonymous)]

The cemetery is on the edge of Ballimore, which is 8 houses and a pub. It was decommissioned many years ago and forgotten. The town used to be much larger but it died off like many small towns.

My convict ancestor died in 1905 in Gulgong after living in Dunedoo for many years. Mum's family were all free settlers from the Uralla area.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

silly LJ for logging me out

[jenny_evergreen]

Very, very cool. *nodnod*

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely tomb. No, she is not forgotten:)!

It's amazing how some things survive. A person contacted my about some ancestors of mine. There is an old cemetary kitty-corner on a property near her home that has names of our common ancestors on it, and she wanted to know the names I had for a certain branch of the family. Apparently the tombstones in it are fairly weathered and some of the dates were illegible being from, oh, the early 1800's. I guess not all stone is created equal.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Grands Rose's gave is concrete with a marble faceplate and lead letters. I suppose it's stand the weather well.