Nancee, McKee Cemetery is closer to Westerville - off the beaten path. WAY off the beaten path. I know part of the way. If you go north out of Grand River, take the road straight north (don't veer to the west/left toward Westerville), follow the road to the rock quarrey, then go east (don't have a choice in that unless you want to go to the quarrey - the abandoned road right there going west used to go into Westerville until the bridge went out in the early 1970's.) Go east on that gravel road, to the 2nd T-section. This is at the corner where the Foland School used to be. There will be a Foland School sign right before the intersection (on the north, your left). Directly ahead is a farm (my folks', grandparents' and great-grandparents') with a farm pond in the corner across the road from where the Foland School used to be. You want to go north right here before you get to the farm. The next farm house after you turn north - on the west/left side of the road - is the Michael & Elizabeth (Sowerwine) Foland homestead. My brother lives there now. Follow the main road - it will cut back to the east, then back to the north. Will be an abandoned farm house on the right/east side of the road after heading north. (Walt & Eileen (Jackson) Miller used to live there.) About 1/4 to 1/2 a mile north of this farm house is a road cutting back to the east (long before you get to the Wheelis/Tennessee Cemetery.) Go east on this road and it will hook up in another T-intersection with a gravel road (heck, they are ALL gravel roads!!!). You need to take this road north and about 1 or 2 miles will be another road going east again. This is the road going to the McKee Cemetery but this is about all I know. I don't know how much further the McKee Cemetery is from this road or if it's on this road. Mom was gonna take me there but we haven't gotten to it. My dad died. Then Mom cracked her pelvis. Then when she was about to get around again, she had a vertebrae fracture. (We also wanted to photograph the infants' gravesites at the Myron & Blanche Coon old farm by Hopeville but haven't gotten there either.) I wish I had better directions for you, Nancee. But when you get out in the boonies, well, you know.... :~) As for DeKalb, about all I know is that Michael & Elizabeth (Sowerwine) Foland, when coming to Decatur County, got as far as DeKalb. Then got stuck there during the winter. After Elizabeth had her baby in April, they went on to the homestead & built a log cabin. The hearthstone from this cabin is the one that is in Grand River's park. Sharon R. Becker Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator [email protected] Ringgold County IAGenWeb Home Page http://iagenweb.org/ringgold/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancee Seifert" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:22 AM Subject: [IADECATU] TRIED TO FIND MCKEE CEMETERY.. > Hi All: A few days ago, I ventured out west of Van Wert to try to find > McKee/Whittecar Cemetery, as it was a nice, sunny day.. Believe me when I > say, if you get lost in 'them-there' back roads, you might as well relax; > bring a lunch or snack.. Ha.. > > I had the map that is on the website cemetery page and had also stopped to > ask the post mistress where she thought it might be... I told her she > should > have a map showing all the local cemeteries for all those asking > directions > and she politely told me she didn't think the postal dept. Would think > that > would be a good use of her time....... o.k.. > > As I drove around the gravel roads, I eventually ended up at Mr. Brune's > (Barry, he owns your West family property, of course...) He was quite > nice, > but a little hesitant.. > > He asked me if I knew the history of DeKalb -- which I have very little > knowledge of... So, does anyone have stories they would like to share that > could be passed on to him?? > > I'm thinking I saw a book in the Leon Library on the History of DeKalb -- > but -- not sure.. > Anyway, will check when I'm there again today.. > > I am finally meeting Mary Stewart in person; she is part of our Decatur > group. We are meeting in Leon for lunch and more exploring. Regards, > Nancee > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 733 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message