This is the mail that was sent to me about the "Old Faulk Cemetery." Maybe someone on here will also be able to help search this old cemetery out, shoot, maybe one of you live near it and dont even know it! Dear Bonnie: I am the great great grandson of James and Rhoda Faulk through Lorenzo Faulk buired south of Midway, Lorenzo Kendrick Faulk buried in Oakwood cemetery in Montgomery and Alice Kendrick Faulk Schweizer buried in Cedar Hill cemetery in Vicksburg MS. Congratulations, I think it is great that you are collecting pictures of old gravestones. There are three graves in the McKenzie private graveyard. The Mckenzies were good friends of James and Rhoda Faulk according to some records but I know nothing about the McKenzies. The graves are still there. I doubt if someone dug the ground up that there would be anything remaining. About 1972 my Mother and I met with Marie Godfrey and we went to the graveyard. At the junction of the road that runs through Louisville and a road that runs east to ??? Corners is the Louisville Pecan Company or used to be. Go east on the raod about a mile. In 1972 the road was gravel but it is now asphalt. The road bends around a big tree growing on the south/right side of the road and the ground is elevated above the road. I understand that the area was mined for bauxite years ago and when the company came to the cemetery they did not bother it so all around the cemetery the ground in several feet lower. In 1972 I walked into the cemetery but the underbrush was so thick I could hardly get into the area. In a later visit I was told by some people further east that once the graves were fenced in and the grave area covered with rocks. The gravestones mus have been in a vertical position. I was told the cemetery was very pretty. In 1935 I visited the area but no one in Clayton knew of the cemetery so I did not see it then. Well anyway because the trees and brush were so terrible I gave up. A year or so later my wife and I again visited the cemetery. This time I came armed with shovel, axe and machete. I wanted to clean up the area where the graves were. I started chopping down the brush and got into the west side of the area. There were some foot stones but no gravestones. Believe me I really got hot so I decided it was not worth the work as it all would grow up in a short time. My wife noted a small piece of gravestone peeking out of the ground and I cleared it off and found James' stone broken into three parts lieing horizontal about four inches under the surface. Taking mu shovel I tapped around and found Rhoda's stone and -Jesse Edward's stone. Someone had pulled all three stones up, broken James' stone and thrown them on the ground. On one of my visits I noted the high school not too far to the southwest and it is my suspicion the culprits came from there. My wife suggested we take James' stone home which we did and it was plenty heavy. Later on we returned and brought Rhoda's stone home. I placed them on the side of my home and when we moved two years ago brought them and placed them in the ground in our flower garden. At one time I tried to get the local monument maker/undertaker south of Louisville to clean up the small area where the Faulks were buried and put in a new stone. Of course I was ready to pay whatever he charged but he was not interested. Its been a long time since I was there but I am now 87 years old and not liable to get to Louisville again. The last time I was there I found Jesse Edward's stone still lieing on the gound but moss and water were destroying it. What a pity, I feel very sad. I presume it is about gone. If you get out of the car and check you will see the ground where the cemetery is is the same level as the side of the road but all around the cemetery it is much lower because of the mining. I would sure like to hear what it looks like today. Have you checked the Louisville cemetery north of the Methodist Church? There is a stone in the front row for John Faulk 1806-1839. He is the half brother of James Faulk. His parents were William and Rachael Futeral Faulk, He married but had no children. For privacy reasons I am not including a name or the address.But this is what was sent to me.Hope it helps find these graves or helps someone in researching them. Thanks, Bonnie Tharpe ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com