Saturday, April 02, 2011

Cemetery Name


We worked on the cemetery for about 6 hours today.  It is really looking so much better.  You can see all the way across it now.


While we were there, Dan came up on his 4 wheeler.  He said that Eva Bell called this cemetery Black Oak Cemetery.  This tree is huge.  I wonder if it is a black oak.  I am sure it was here in the 1860's and 1870's when the first burials were made here.  Dan said Eva Bell told him there was once an schooll on the hill in the background here.  She said the school house was moved with a team of horses over to where the Callen cemetery is.  Watson Leather's father taught school in this building.


The Morris house and barn is about a quarter mile from the cemetery.











If we can get out of bed tomorrow, we are going back for more.

1 comment:

Galla Creek said...

Maybe we should call it the Powell-Aday Cemetery.