The SUV in the back ground is parked after making a left turn into the cemetery, and in front of two large piles of churt or dirt. My first thought is, fill in sunken spots (OH NO, not without first marking the grave with a stone and making a historical record that a grave was there! ).Beside the tall tree in the far background you might catch a glimpse of the side of the Hunter Cemetery Sign. So I am looking toward the west if the tombstones are facing the east, I believe that was the directions they always faced. "There was an old church here called Hunter Meeting House at one time"
There are graves everywhere here that looks like bare ground. Sunken spots, broken stones
Above are a few photos of the "old Historic" Hunter Cemetery. These stones are largely characteristic of those of the 1800s. They are composed of various levels of hardness of limestone compared to today's Granite. Granite is expected to last thousands of years, but these are much softer stones some of which have fallen into decay already. They will weather away in a few hundred years at the most perhaps leaving us no trail of who the inhabitants in this community were. In many cases these stones will be the only remaining records we mortals have of their having been here on this green earth. [WA 3/26/2005]
Submitted by: Photos & information by Mary Bob McClain Richardson 3/22/2005.
