imafishingnutt
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- Sep 30, 2007
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- All Treasure Hunting
we found an old cemetary yesterday in the ghost town of elk city.
head stones read stuff like born 1792 died 1845
many of the head stones are leaning and some have even fell over.
and some cant even be read anymore.
word is this was a wagon rd next to it wich makes sense since in 1845 im sure the dead were brought up the mountain by wagon. i think the latest date i found thier was died 1924
many of the dates are died 1850s or so. this would make this erea worth do more research and see if thier is any of the relitives still around.
I bet people have family in thier and dont even know it.
im going to copy names and see what i can come up with.
its all over grown with brush and stuff and it looks like maby 70 or so are buried thier
whats neat about it is one of the locals told us that thier was buildings around it at one time.
its located up on a hill and was deep in the timbers,
unfortunatly the logged all around it and the slash burned and now it looks like a patch of timber forgotten from down the mountain.
this was a way cool place to see. Kinda creepy too. since many of the head stones are misplaced and gone i was walking through trying to read head stones when the ground kinda sunk under my feet
i said excuse me though...lol
just for note we did detect around it but not in it that wouldnt be right in my book and would give us all a bad name.
still a nice place to visit though.
Rick
head stones read stuff like born 1792 died 1845
many of the head stones are leaning and some have even fell over.
and some cant even be read anymore.
word is this was a wagon rd next to it wich makes sense since in 1845 im sure the dead were brought up the mountain by wagon. i think the latest date i found thier was died 1924
many of the dates are died 1850s or so. this would make this erea worth do more research and see if thier is any of the relitives still around.
I bet people have family in thier and dont even know it.
im going to copy names and see what i can come up with.
its all over grown with brush and stuff and it looks like maby 70 or so are buried thier
whats neat about it is one of the locals told us that thier was buildings around it at one time.
its located up on a hill and was deep in the timbers,
unfortunatly the logged all around it and the slash burned and now it looks like a patch of timber forgotten from down the mountain.
this was a way cool place to see. Kinda creepy too. since many of the head stones are misplaced and gone i was walking through trying to read head stones when the ground kinda sunk under my feet
i said excuse me though...lol
just for note we did detect around it but not in it that wouldnt be right in my book and would give us all a bad name.
still a nice place to visit though.
Rick
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