Comments on: West Virginia Wanderings https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/ She traded her tiara for wings and a pickup Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4522 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:05:46 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4522 In reply to Lorraine.

I love this! Thank you for sharing! ❤️

]]> By: Lorraine https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4521 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:10:30 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4521 I really enjoy sleuthing graveyards. Here’s a poem that pretty much captures it for me:
DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest, neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care; It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist. You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you.

Author Unknown

]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4519 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:59:11 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4519 In reply to The Camphost in Ohio.

❤️

]]> By: The Camphost in Ohio https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4518 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:59:13 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4518 I love finding family graves. Remind me to tell you about my great great grandmother who was kidnapped by Indians. When she was rescued she was pregnant, resulting in my Great grandfather Charles Shasteen. I have found her grave. See you soon!

]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4517 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:23:31 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4517 In reply to Sandra.

❤️

]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4516 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:23:23 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4516 In reply to Christina German.

❤️

]]> By: Christina German https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4514 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:29:50 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4514 Certain members of my family stop at bookstores. I stop at cemeteries .

I’ve been a findagrave member for almost 13 years. I’m now mowing the rows of local cemeteries with my camera adding to the photo documentary data. So many cemeteries are only 20 % photographed. So many people have helped me with my research I’m hoping to give back a bit.

You can connect your gr. grandma to the husband you knew on findagrave through the edit portion. I’ve done that on hoped the family wouldn’t mind .
What a great adventure! ( I have a great uncle buried at the national cemetery in Grafton. Someday I’ll visit he was only 19 years old.
Chris.

]]> By: Sandra https://www.marshmallowranch.com/west-virginia-wanderings/#comment-4513 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:05:09 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2649#comment-4513 Oh, I have a “thing” for cemeteries too!!! I wish that’s all I had to do…..travel all over the US to ramble through cemeteries.

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