In a message dated 1/1/01 10:44:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Cary, I enjoyed my visit to Bigelow. I don't know much about its history at > all. It is one of my great desires to be able to provide some smalll > historical information along with the directions and contents of the > cemeteries. I can get lost in wondering about the lives of the people who > are buried in a cemetery- I wonder if they were happy, if their life was > hard, if they were sorrowful. I wonder if they had family to be with them. > Weird, I know! Hope your New Year's Day was great! Di > Di; > > Sorry, I forgot about the no attachments on the list. > > The Bigelow family cemetery here in Arlington is just around the corner > from my parents house where I grew up on Floral Bluff Road not far from > Jacksonville University. It is a very small cemetery with only a few > graves, > surrounded by a chain link fence, but the gate is not locked, and never has > been since I was a small child. I think that there are still family members > in the Jacksonville area, because it has been maintained in the past years. > All of this area, which is River Forest, used to be the Bigelow > Plantation > at one time, although I have never seen any historical information. > > v/r > >