Just a short update. Me, my brother, and his friend went down last week and mowed again. Fortunately, the weeds were only a foot tall this time and we were done in just under an hour.
Sometime you wonder if your labor really benefits anyone else, so it was nice to see that a member of the Wilson family had showed up to place flags on the veterans’ graves–and also uncovered the grave of Matthew Wilson, a Vietnam vet who had been buried there in 2005. I had known about this grave from findagrave.com, but had never found it. As far as I know he is the last person buried in the Corkery/Guthrie cemetery.
They also (or someone else) placed a flag on the grave of our great-great-great grandfather, William, who was a veteran of the Union forces in the Civil War, as was his son Thomas, who is buried in Arkansas.
I am working on some sort of work ticket system for non-routine maintenance. On the list so far:
- Repair the split headstone of Preston Bradshaw.
- Make headstones for Thomas and Homer Poynter (graves currently marked by stones)