We used to go to a nearby park - Otter Creek - for church camp. And every year we'd hike to one of the small graveyards there and notice how many of the graves were all within a one or two year period (1838-1839-ish). Many of these graves were of children.
My dad even used to tell a story that explained all of these deaths in close proximity. Seems that the settlers there had entered the territory of the Giant Otters that lived there at the time, and for whom the park was named...
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An ancestor?
No, a random tombstone. But a cool-looking random tombstone.
It is!
There are old cememmteries spotted all over the hilss--some I've just stumbled upon in my hiking/exploring adventures.
We have some pretty early dates on stones around the county--real pioneers of the area!
I'll eventually makw a post of some the more interesting ones I've found.
The ones which move me the most are those of children--infants and toddlers.
We used to go to a nearby park - Otter Creek - for church camp. And every year we'd hike to one of the small graveyards there and notice how many of the graves were all within a one or two year period (1838-1839-ish). Many of these graves were of children.
My dad even used to tell a story that explained all of these deaths in close proximity. Seems that the settlers there had entered the territory of the Giant Otters that lived there at the time, and for whom the park was named...
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