Do you like to visit old cemeteries while touring? How about a thread showing pictures of interesting grave sites found while touring? I’ll start this off with one for the Marines on the forum … when I was in boot camp, the drill instructors would have us say “Goodnight Chesty Puller, wherever you are!” right before we hit the rack. Chesty Puller’s tomb can be found just off Hwy 33 east of Saluda, VA





If you like to drink Dr Pepper, here is another one for you … found in Rural Retreat, VA. The soft drink was named after him.

 

Outstanding !

 

Great thread. We as well enjoy exploring some old or interesting cemeteries.

Here is one from last year.

If you don’t know who Col Ferebee is you need to do a google search.







Great American Hero

 

Daniel Boone’s Parents

 

Veterans Cemetery West of Des Moines, IA. Memorial Day Ride 2013.

 

www.findagrave.com

I’ve got kin buried all over the two Carolinas on all sides of the family since about 1690. The website above is a great resource to find anybody you want, as long as they are dead.

 

Can't say I like it or put it on my list. We have stopped at a few while riding with others and it is quite interesting to see family area 200 years+, as well as civil war era. Also from just a visit to my family cemetery I noticed how high the infant mortality rate was 100+ years ago, as well as few living past 65-70. Todays mediacal wonders and curses.

 

For those POW's and MIA's that did not return.

 

Always liked walking old cemeteries.

Trying to read the plaque, perhaps old english? Something lost in the translation?

 

My wife's relatives are buried here--we rode out to Canton NY to visit her great grandfather's boat musuem --He built Rushton canoes and boats in the late 1800s early 1900s interesting area
I believe this is in Hermon NY