A few years ago I was searching for new detecting ground deep in the woods where I remembered seeing daffodils in bloom one spring while turkey hunting,{Usually a good way to find old homesteads} I found the spot and detected a little while without finding much,when I came across the old family cemetery - long neglected and forgotten.I found a total of 5 graves-4 marked with only crumbling stones with no lettering remaining-and one crude granite stone with crude chiseled writing on it.This was the grave of the husband and wife who had died within a year of each other in the mid 1800s.
As I moved some fallen tree limbs,kicked away some leaves and other debris,I could finally read the markings.I believe I was the first person to read them in many many years.I cleaned it up as best I could and came back later with some help and cleaned it better-and transplanted some of the daffodils to each grave site.Along with the names and dates of birth and deaths was a small inscription that had literally sunk into the ground where I had to remove some dirt to even read it...."They lived to live again"
A two track trail up a mountain
Not used in many years
Led to a place that once was home
To Ozark pioneers
The house had long since vanished
The fields returned to trees
And lonely graves are all that
As I moved some fallen tree limbs,kicked away some leaves and other debris,I could finally read the markings.I believe I was the first person to read them in many many years.I cleaned it up as best I could and came back later with some help and cleaned it better-and transplanted some of the daffodils to each grave site.Along with the names and dates of birth and deaths was a small inscription that had literally sunk into the ground where I had to remove some dirt to even read it...."They lived to live again"
A two track trail up a mountain
Not used in many years
Led to a place that once was home
To Ozark pioneers
The house had long since vanished
The fields returned to trees
And lonely graves are all that
