Part 3 will come around in November!
Have to acknowledge all the Friday the 13ths this year!
I took this at Oak Hill Cemetery in Pontiac, MI
Out of ALL the people with that last name at Oak Hill, there's no Jason.
This post is going to be pretty random.
We got about 2 inches of rain last weekend - this branch (Chuck for scale) that's been dangling up in our maple tree for a couple years now decided to wait -thankfully- until my sister had left before falling! I don't think it would have caused any/much damage on her car, but it would have fallen against it.
I passed a car the other day that had one of these cheesy flat, glow-in-the-dark skeletons on their grill - funny!
So. I was going thru my cemetery albums on my PC to get some posts started for May (aka Cemetery Appreciation Month). About this time last year, I'd gone to Salem Cemetery (one of many in Ohio).
Anyway, I did some minor editing on my phone, uploaded them to my PC at home and then didn't look at them anymore. But when I went to upload them to Blogger, all of them were either super tiny or out of focus! Weird. I thought about going back, but it really wasn't an exciting cemetery, so I don't know why I keep thinking about it.
Maybe because a Ruffed Grouse wandered up as I was changing my shoes and proceeded to follow me around the cemetery?
I'll be back in Ohio in a couple weeks and saw a couple others that look interesting. However....why are all the cool cemeteries in sketchy areas???? At least if we (me, both sisters & Mom) adjust our route slightly, these will be along the way and only add maybe 20 minutes to the trip - thanks to crazy narrow roads that I wouldn't want to drive fast on. And that means I won't be going to them alone, either!
When I looked at street view - that house looks abandoned.
Yeah no. Must have someone with me.
Or I really need to start to carry.
This one really caught my attention.
Technically, this is a graveyard, since it's attached to a church.
Notes in Find A Grave say that the church is abandoned!
And it's only about 3 1/2 miles from Stillwater (above)
This was part of the listing in FindAGrave - I saw where someone posted the county recorder's maps of veteran's graves. The list on the right is their names and which row & grave they're buried in and a code for which war they were in. The legend at bottom right deciphers the code for which war (10 in a circle = War of 1812, 19 in a circle = Civil War and 31 in a circle for "World War") and also a bit of history - "established about 1830 & orig. part of the first seven ranges".
A quick Google search says that the "Old Seven Ranges" was a land tract in eastern Ohio that was the first tract to be surveyed in what became the Public Land Survey System.
And now we know!
Looking forward to visit - hope it's not raining!
