Old graves
Apr. 23rd, 2004 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mikeknI had to go to Reading for work yesterday. We finished up rather quickly (amazing how quickly a problem can be fixed when you can see what the heck they are talking about). Since I had no other plans for the afternoon (and no more billable work), I took the back roads home. As I was heading out of Berks county, I found myself in a familiar area, so I stopped in at a church I knew (St. Paul's UCC in Amityville, PA) and visited the graves of my great-great-great grandparents.
I took a photo of the head stones with my Clie:
One of these days I need to get out there and do a rubbing so that I can try and read the quotes at the bottom.
I wandered around the graveyard for a bit, trying to find a third grave which is supposed to be there, but which I've never found. I love old grave yards, and this is one of my favorites because of the personal connections - I suspect if I knew more of names of the family from that time period I'd be able to find more of their graves. I just read that the graves there go back to the 1740s and predate the first church built there.
I took a photo of the head stones with my Clie:
One of these days I need to get out there and do a rubbing so that I can try and read the quotes at the bottom.
I wandered around the graveyard for a bit, trying to find a third grave which is supposed to be there, but which I've never found. I love old grave yards, and this is one of my favorites because of the personal connections - I suspect if I knew more of names of the family from that time period I'd be able to find more of their graves. I just read that the graves there go back to the 1740s and predate the first church built there.
