Seeking remnants of our past

I love cemeteries and Rick is into Geneology!

To us that equals fun and two hobbies that meld together so that both of our interests are covered. You may not appreciate the picture below as much as us but hear me out....

Rick found this "abandonded" cemetery on the web, it's not just any old bunch of tombstones, they are all his relatives. It's official name is "Coffin cemetery" and it's located in the middle of a farmers field, south of Chatfield. The tombstones are just sitting up against an old fence, who knows where the actual burial plots are? I'm guessing that since it was only 10 people, (and abandonded) the farmer just moved the stones out of the way....sad . Six of these headstones are the McAlister children that all died from Diptheria under the ages of six, three of them in the same year.
Four of these kids were Children of Rick's Great-great grandpa Rufus McAlister

the other two were, Rufus brother's kids. (How am I doing Rick, am I getting this right). It's interesting to us to now see evidence of what we have only read about. Rufus McAlister is buried down the road a bit in Cummingsville. Rick and I were at that cemetery a month or so ago.

The picture below shows the actual site of the tombstones (Coffin cemetery).

Rick and I cant wait to go find it. We will have to go up to the farmer's door, knock, explain ourselves and hope he is a friendly sort of guy that will let us hike across his field to the grove of trees near the fence where the tombstone are located. We're also hoping the guy who owns the land know a little history about this abondoned cemetery. I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself! May is a busy month so hopefully in June we will venture out to find this treasure. You can be rest assured I will blog again and hopefully have lots to tell about.