Nov 30
DAY 1, 11/22 Today marks one year since I rediscovered Corkery Cemetery and we began regular maintenance to keep the cemetery up. Yesterday my daughter and I went down to do what I thought we be a fairly simple and straightforward task: divide the cemetery up into a grid and map each and every grave. …
Oct 05
I finally got the headstone for Preston Bradshaw repaired. I scrubbed out all of the moss that was growing in where the stone had cracked, and then epoxied the stone together and ratchet strapped it while it cured. Unfortunately while the stone is glued back together, there is still a large crack that could allow moisture …
Mar 30
I went down last weekend and did some weedeating, cleaned up a little brush, and righted Alfred and Florence’s tombstone. I also found another 1-2 graves that were buried under some of the dead grass. Next visit will be more mowing, which should be easier now that we have (hopefully) all the hard-to-see graves marked …
Dec 26
We are just now getting the site up and running, so you may see omissions and errors on some of the pages as we insert placeholder text to build pages. As it says on the About Us page, we are descendants of Alfred C. Poynter, the first grave you see as you enter the cemetery. …
