itmaiden
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- Sep 28, 2005
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The cast iron decoration should have been put back at the same spot he found it. Obviously there is a grave there as there usually are by trees. Up in NE Arkansas, many of the old graves don't have markers. Just wasn't anyone to make tombstones back in the early settlement days and many people were poor. Usually just a small stone is set at the head of the grave. If you walk on the old graves you could be "in it" as they sink in deeply after the wood coffins rot.
One guy was metal detecting by a river when he found a square nail. Hoping there was a box of treasure he kept searching and found more square nails. He never found the box as it had rotted away. It's occupant had not. Made for an interesting day. The occupant was a woman buried properly facing east with her hair pulled back and adorned with a hair decoration and wearing a dress. The state couldn't let the woman rest in peace even though it was obviously an 1800's burial. They just "had to" yank her up and send her to Little Rock for xrays to be "studied". States do not respect the peace of those who have gone.
itmaiden
One guy was metal detecting by a river when he found a square nail. Hoping there was a box of treasure he kept searching and found more square nails. He never found the box as it had rotted away. It's occupant had not. Made for an interesting day. The occupant was a woman buried properly facing east with her hair pulled back and adorned with a hair decoration and wearing a dress. The state couldn't let the woman rest in peace even though it was obviously an 1800's burial. They just "had to" yank her up and send her to Little Rock for xrays to be "studied". States do not respect the peace of those who have gone.
itmaiden
