Thanks for all the response about the cemetery upkeep! I had noticed the cemetery list before and even sent a subscribe message to the email address, but never received a confirmation of my subscription. This time I've subscribed to both digest and list in case one should yield a confirmation and the other not. Maybe it's just an inactive list, but I should have received an electronic confirmation in any event. Thanks also for the information about the VA restoring veteran's graves. That may help for some of them. (Unfortunately, I don't think any of my ancestors in our family cemetery were at the right age to fight in any wars, including the war between the states--too old or too young.) Still, I don't have a transcription yet of all the graves there and may never since it's so badly damaged. Looking forward to hearing from you Pamela regarding a transcription by one or more of your volunteers. In some few cases, I know who should be buried next to whom, if one of two gravestones side by side is illegible. There is also said to be an African-American graveyard in the same vicinity as Myers, but I don't believe it is marked in any way. I believe a little archeology was done there to discover that. As the area was once a plantation with a village by it, according to park literature there, that would make sense. Bronya in Berkeley, CA