Unbelievable – What Can Be Done?

Incredible … you are not going to believe this … please check out Ruther Coker Burks’ Graveyard Rabbit blog, last2cu. She made a shocking find yesterday and has a short deadline for figuring out what to do about what may very well be her great-grandmother’s tomb, left exposed by the lowering of a lake into which a developer had thrown what remained of a family cemetery back during the Depression. If any of you Graveyard Rabbits or others who are knowledgeable about these matters know what Ruth can and should do, please advise her.

Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery: James and Beatrice Day

James & Beatrice
1894 DAY 1908

Infant children of
George W. &
Lillie A. Day

Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery: George Kuntz and Julie H., his wife

George Kuntz
June 9, 1836
Feb. 21, 1919

Julie H., his wife
Nov. 6, 1846
Sept. 29, 1916

KUNTZ

Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery: Joan A., Robert E. Jr., and Esther Smith Weidner

Joan A.
Sept. 5, 1940
Sept. 6, 1940

Robert E., Jr.
Stillborn
Jan. 24, 1948

Weidner

Esther Smith
Feb. 27, 1918
Mar. 24, 1976

Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery: Neva M. Weidner

Neva M.
Dau. of
W.H. and Ellen Weidner
DIED
Nov. 4, 1908

Seven Good Things About Being a Graveyard Rabbit

In gratitude for nominating The Graveyard Rabbit Afield for the Kreativ Blogger Award, I am dedicating this post to my very erudite and talented fellow Texan Judith Richards Schubert of Tennessee Memories (as well as Genealogy Traces, Cemeteries of the Covered Bridges, Cemeteries with Texas Ties, and Food Gratitude - she's a busy lady!):

These are just seven of the many enjoyable things about being a Graveyard Rabbit:

1. It’s peaceful.
2. It’s educational.
3. You are a member of a community of interesting people.
4. You get to work on your photography skills.
5. You never know whom you might be helping with the information you post.
6. Each graveyard has its own atmosphere and its own beauty.
7. When you mention to your children that you are a Graveyard Rabbit, they look at you as though you had just announced that you have decided to “go Goth.”

Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery: Annie E. Kuntz Spidle

Annie E. Kuntz
Wife of E. O. Spidle
Died
Feb 20 1905
Aged 32 Y.
1 M and 27 D

Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery: Two Rachel Guldens

Rachel Gulden
Born Feb 6, 1830
Died Nov. 29, 1905


Rachel Gulden
Died Sept. 8, 1910
Aged 53 YRS., 6 MO. 23 DS.