Here are a couple of the time lapses we shot to document the cleanup we did on Saturday:
Jan 29
Maintenance: 2018/01/27
This weekend we (Dan, Josh, and volunteer Jesse) spent several hours getting the cemetery cleaned up. We chainsawed several branches, hauled out brush, pruned out small trees that were growing over the graves, mowed the entire cemetery, and placed marker flags for every grave we could find, which brings the total grave count from the previous estimate of 59 to somewhere around 85.
As you probably know, many of the graves are marked only with a rock, and I believe those graves now outnumber actual marked graves.
I hope to get photos posted of our progress later today.
Dec 26
Getting Set Up
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. We have started picking up the maintenance as of November 2017.
If you have relatives in the cemetery, or if you have questions please drop us an email. We usually respond within 48 hours.
If you are interested, you are certainly welcome to donate to the cemetery. However, the Corkery Cemetery Preservation Society is not a 501(c)13 (a nonprofit cemetery organization recognized by the IRS), so your donations are not tax deductible.
Nov 25
Cemetery Maintenance November 2017
November I trimmed branches, trimmed weeds, stacked brush, cleaned some headstones with distilled water, documented and photographed all of the headstones I could find (59 in all).
According to findagrave.com and other relatives, there are still some graves there that I did not find, so I hope to locate them on my next visit.