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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 27, 2021 22:29:19 GMT -5
I know people, several people, family even that would do this.   When your headlights hit those reflectors at night!  |
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Post by hengest on Aug 28, 2021 6:44:59 GMT -5
Did you see this yourself or find it online?? Inspiring!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 28, 2021 9:29:44 GMT -5
I found it online and wished I had done it back home.
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Post by restless on Aug 28, 2021 10:57:23 GMT -5
Around here about two weeks before Halloween it starts getting foggy in the mornings and sometimes late in the evenings. I've often said I should take chicken wire and form them into shapes that look like people and put them in some of the roadside cemeteries that you find dotting Texas. You wouldn't see them during the day for the most part, but when your headlights hit them in the fog... well, that's creepy 😏
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Post by hengest on Aug 28, 2021 17:56:01 GMT -5
These roadside cemeteries sound worthwhile. Why is this such a phenomenon in Texas?
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 28, 2021 18:24:05 GMT -5
These roadside cemeteries sound worthwhile. Why is this such a phenomenon in Texas? Parts of Ohio and WV have them, most of them were small family cemeteries or church cemeteries where the building and congregation have been gone for a long time. |
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Post by hengest on Aug 28, 2021 20:44:33 GMT -5
These roadside cemeteries sound worthwhile. Why is this such a phenomenon in Texas? Parts of Ohio and WV have them, most of them were small family cemeteries or church cemeteries where the building and congregation have been gone for a long time. Aha, we have similar such occasional cemeteries around here. Not so often side-of-the-road roadside that I have seen, but sometimes truly residential, like tucked next to a small property that people clearly live in. But maybe the same origina. They are fascinating. Here is a story about one such where the church still stands. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 28, 2021 21:13:43 GMT -5
Parts of Ohio and WV have them, most of them were small family cemeteries or church cemeteries where the building and congregation have been gone for a long time. Aha, we have similar such occasional cemeteries around here. Not so often side-of-the-road roadside that I have seen, but sometimes truly residential, like tucked next to a small property that people clearly live in. But maybe the same origina. They are fascinating. Here is a story about one such where the church still stands. My grandpa had a piece of land that had an old church and graveyard on it, the building was very decrepit when I was a child and before my grandpa moved their the stones had been broken or carried off. When he passed away the family set over beside the old graveyard and started a family graveyard, the old graveyard has been re-fenced a couple of times, but the family part does not have a fence. |
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Post by restless on Aug 30, 2021 8:46:51 GMT -5
Yes, the cemeteries in Texas have a number of origins. Often they are leftovers from small towns that don't exist anymore; Texas is full of small towns that are just names on the map for historic purposes, but aren't actual recognized towns. You will drive down a small farm-to-market or county road and run across a sign that says something like "BOOTH" or "CRABB" (for two local examples) on them, and that's just where the town used to be.
Often, they are family cemeteries, as mentioned above, or they may be segregated cemeteries. You will find that the family cemeteries are still active, and families will still bury their dead in them.
Occasionally you hear stories about gravesites being found in woods or new construction areas, because it's a lost cemetery. We just had a controversy about a school facility being built near a rediscovered slave cemetery a couple years ago. It's all part of life in Texas.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 30, 2021 17:40:12 GMT -5
Yes, the cemeteries in Texas have a number of origins. Often they are leftovers from small towns that don't exist anymore; Texas is full of small towns that are just names on the map for historic purposes, but aren't actual recognized towns. You will drive down a small farm-to-market or county road and run across a sign that says something like "BOOTH" or "CRABB" (for two local examples) on them, and that's just where the town used to be. Often, they are family cemeteries, as mentioned above, or they may be segregated cemeteries. You will find that the family cemeteries are still active, and families will still bury their dead in them. Occasionally you hear stories about gravesites being found in woods or new construction areas, because it's a lost cemetery. We just had a controversy about a school facility being built near a rediscovered slave cemetery a couple years ago. It's all part of life in Texas. In WV where my family is from that are a lot of cemeteries that only a few know about. About 20 years ago we took a trip with my parents and they showed us active cemeteries and others that no one had been buried in for 50 years. (70 now). But lost cemeteries are all over the country I believe. |
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Post by hengest on Aug 31, 2021 14:08:02 GMT -5
Yes, the cemeteries in Texas have a number of origins. Often they are leftovers from small towns that don't exist anymore; Texas is full of small towns that are just names on the map for historic purposes, but aren't actual recognized towns. You will drive down a small farm-to-market or county road and run across a sign that says something like "BOOTH" or "CRABB" (for two local examples) on them, and that's just where the town used to be. Often, they are family cemeteries, as mentioned above, or they may be segregated cemeteries. You will find that the family cemeteries are still active, and families will still bury their dead in them.So, someone in the family owns the plot and prevents it from being developed, and they just keep using it as long as there's room? There's something awesome about this phenomenon and this discussion. Just a kind of very obvious, everyday, personal living history. Amazing to me. It bothers me that no one (including me) visits some of our family graves. I need to start making a point to go do the cleanup and flowers at least when I can make it to the area. |
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Post by restless on Aug 31, 2021 14:53:03 GMT -5
Yes, the cemeteries in Texas have a number of origins. Often they are leftovers from small towns that don't exist anymore; Texas is full of small towns that are just names on the map for historic purposes, but aren't actual recognized towns. You will drive down a small farm-to-market or county road and run across a sign that says something like "BOOTH" or "CRABB" (for two local examples) on them, and that's just where the town used to be. Often, they are family cemeteries, as mentioned above, or they may be segregated cemeteries. You will find that the family cemeteries are still active, and families will still bury their dead in them.So, someone in the family owns the plot and prevents it from being developed, and they just keep using it as long as there's room? There's something awesome about this phenomenon and this discussion. Just a kind of very obvious, everyday, personal living history. Amazing to me. It bothers me that no one (including me) visits some of our family graves. I need to start making a point to go do the cleanup and flowers at least when I can make it to the area. Yes, you can see new graves being put in at the sites occasionally! |
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Post by Traveroark on Sept 8, 2021 21:02:39 GMT -5
I should take my grandsons out this Halloween and do this a few different places. I know some good spots. A couple of dozen eyes back off the road a ways at corners when the light shines out into the woods.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 9, 2021 11:01:02 GMT -5
I should take my grandsons out this Halloween and do this a few different places. I know some good spots. A couple of dozen eyes back off the road a ways at corners when the light shines out into the woods. Wow!! I kinda wish, I had had a grandpa like that, although in someways, I kinda sorta did. |
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When your headlights hit those reflectors at night!
