Showing posts with label Andrew Wages Family Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Wages Family Cemetery. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Moving Cemeteries

 All cemeteries are, to one degree or another, a moving experience. But this one takes that into a whole new direction.

While searching for a Great-Aunt's grave I happened upon what at first glance looked like a family plot in the rear of the cemetery. It was surrounded by a well maintained hedge with one opening to allow access. In that access point stands a marker that is clearly not a grave marker.



This bears investigation!


I have encountered relocated graves before. And I have heard about relocated cemeteries, but never encountered one. A little investigate reveals that the original cemetery site is now submerged. It is under the surface of a reservoir constructed to manage the county water supply. Fortunately for the relatives (of which old Br'er is not one) all 47 graves were moved here. Into a cemetery within a cemetery.

That's a new one on me, too.