A story in the news today concerns a headstone found in Richland Hills of an infant that was buried around 1900. People are scrambling to figure out who the child was.
Twenty-one years ago, during a summer break from law school, I took a girlfriend home to Wise County to let her see where I grew up (the relationship quickly ended for obvious reasons.) Anyway, we had an afternoon to kill so I took her to those plateaus that are west of Bridgeport. You know, those small mountains that are flat at the top - the ones that you can see for miles but no one talks about.
I had remembered an old cemetery being up there - and by "up there" I mean on the top of one of the plateaus. Being a little strange even back then, I took my unsuspecting girlfriend to that remote location. I had never actually been in the cemetery and, once we arrived, we found it to be in a state of total disrepair. Weeds were high. Most of the headstones were broken. The place seemed to be abandoned.
But I remember seeing grave after grave of infants that had died at the turn of the century. Unless I'm crazy, I could swear that some of the headstones had dates in the 1890s.
I've never met anyone that has been to that cemetery.
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1.11.2007
Very Odd Memory
A story in the news today concerns a headstone found in Richland Hills of an infant that was buried around 1900. People are scrambling to figure out who the child was.
Twenty-one years ago, during a summer break from law school, I took a girlfriend home to Wise County to let her see where I grew up (the relationship quickly ended for obvious reasons.) Anyway, we had an afternoon to kill so I took her to those plateaus that are west of Bridgeport. You know, those small mountains that are flat at the top - the ones that you can see for miles but no one talks about.
I had remembered an old cemetery being up there - and by "up there" I mean on the top of one of the plateaus. Being a little strange even back then, I took my unsuspecting girlfriend to that remote location. I had never actually been in the cemetery and, once we arrived, we found it to be in a state of total disrepair. Weeds were high. Most of the headstones were broken. The place seemed to be abandoned.
But I remember seeing grave after grave of infants that had died at the turn of the century. Unless I'm crazy, I could swear that some of the headstones had dates in the 1890s.
I've never met anyone that has been to that cemetery.
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I think you are talking about Indian Cemetary. For years it has been a place where kids hang out and drink. The sides of the dead end road are lined with beer cans but to my amazement the cemetary has few beer cans thrown over the fence. Or at least it was that way the last time I drove by there. If you walk through the cemetary and on top of those hills you can see the courthouse lights. It is a pretty cool place.
Is this where you dumped her body when she dumped you?
Been there
i have been looking for that thing every where
You never met anyone that has been to THAT cemetary?? INDIAN CEMETARY??? Are you kidding me? Good grief - you really never did drink a beer or smoke a 'j' in high school, did you? I don't know anyone that graduated from B'port that doesn't know about that place. Many many memories that I wish I could actually remember....we partied out there all the time, but we would also go out there and clean up the area in and around the cemetary every few weekends. I guess we were drunks with some amount of respect. Good times.
I suppose you never heard of Hyde Cemmetary in Runaway Bay either.... you didn't do a lot of back roadin' in your younger days, did you?
No, if I remember it right, Barry liked to have everyone over at his house or hang out at CS's. He wasn't the backroad kinda guy.
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