This is the front corner of the left side of the cemetery. The tombstone of Basil & Rena Gilmore Beckum is the one in the very corner. There are several of the Bailey family still in this area. Also quite a few of the Beckum family in the front part there. The stone with the pointed top is the grave of Josephine Beckum. Once again I point out all the open area with no stones and the small unmarked stones. The large stone next to the old tree trunk is the stone of Willis McKinley Bailey and his wife, Eliza Grimes. This stone was donated by the grandchildren sometime after the couple died. It is also is for their children who are buried here too. Many of the unmarked graves in this area probably belong to their children. The nice marker in the right foreground corner that is only partially above ground, I believe, has engraving on it but it is all underground.
This is the front corner of the left side of the cemetery. The tombstone of Basil & Rena Gilmore Beckum is the one in the very corner. There are several of the Bailey family still in this area. Also quite a few of the Beckum family in the front part there. The stone with the pointed top is the grave of Josephine Beckum. Once again I point out all the open area with no stones and the small unmarked stones
Another view of the older stones.
This is close up view of the 3 Pickard stones that are toward the center of the cemetery almost by themselves as there is a huge area of unmarked graves in this area. It is is after you leave the heavily populated stones of the left side of the cemetery. The middle part there is full of unmarked graves and those only marked by fieldstones. These 3 are all Pickards - Alexander S. Pickard is the first stone on the left; to the right of him is W. P. Pickard (relationship unknown, but possible brothers or cousins); and behind Alexander S. Pickard is his wife Rachel S. Pickard. As I have told you before information was handed down to me from a great-aunt via a cousin of mine, that it was a tradition in that day and time for wives to be buried behind their husbands. This is only the 3rd time I have run across it in my cemetery findings. All 3 of them have been in the Mt. Joy area. There of course could have been more examples if all the graves here were marked.
