Pounds Cemetery

 Where is the most obvious place to find a family cemetery? Why in an industrial park, naturally. In this case Old Br'er himself actually earned his carrots working in one of the nearby buildings. Yet he never so much as heard about this place in all those years.

One look and you would naturally know this leads to an old cemetery. Duh!

One of those little details that haunt me. Note the furthest "table" grave cover. It does not actually have the slab visible, only the 'legs'. Were you standing there and looking down you would see a slab at the base, flat on the ground. None of the other versions have a slab at ground level, only atop the legs. Now look closer. All the legs for all the memorials tape up from the ground. Rather like obelisks with the tops cut off. 

Now. Either that last grave is missing the top (by design or destruction) OR it is upside down (which would have taken more than a little effort!). If the former, why did it get two slabs and the others only one? If the latter, why are the legs reversed?

The stone walls are for False Tombs. On the left is a probable single grave, though it is large enough to perhaps be two. On the right is an obvious triple grave, and possibly a quadruple. Alas, none of these have anything indicating a name. One could speculate on who is where based on identified graves adjoining them and the dates for persons recorded as being buried in the cemetery. These False Tombs - especially this style - is rather common in the Southern US for periods in the 19th Century. But it would remain only speculation.

What was particularly unusual about this cemetery is that there is a recent interment. A mere five years ago. Prior to that the last recorded burial was in 1905! 105 years 9 months later to be precise! A little digging shows this last burial to be the 3rd Great-grandson of the patriarch of this family. His 2nd GGF is buried here as well. 

It is worth noting that this 2015 date is most probably for cremains. There is no indication of an actual grave being dug, and there is a stone border in place that is fare too small to be a full grave. This would also make sense as getting equipment in to excavate a grave would be nigh on impossible for the site. 

And I don't think anyone would be carrying a casket and vault in by hand, either! Just getting the headstone in place had to be a serious effort.

I've heard of "pouring one out" for a fallen comrade. But I can't recall finding entire beers being left before. I would have thought James warranted better than Miller, though.