No, I have not written an elegy, but I was remembering some of the visits I made to country cemeteries. I wonder if some one is maintaining the one at former Bethlehem Methodist Church. I was just a child and got a great sense of being part of history when I saw a birthday of 1812 on a tombstone.
I wonder if some of these country churchyards still have "cemetery workings" each year along with dinner on the grounds. I don't think I was yet a teenager when I accompanied my dad to help clean off the cemetery adjacent to Antioch Baptist Church.
My experience at digging a grave was at the same cemetery. Why we were doing it I don't know, because it wasn't for a relative. Years later we did prepare a grave for a kinsman, an aunt.
I wonder if some of these country churchyards still have "cemetery workings" each year along with dinner on the grounds. I don't think I was yet a teenager when I accompanied my dad to help clean off the cemetery adjacent to Antioch Baptist Church.
My experience at digging a grave was at the same cemetery. Why we were doing it I don't know, because it wasn't for a relative. Years later we did prepare a grave for a kinsman, an aunt.
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