Always nice to someone take action into their own hands Calvin. That is great how you were able to get a small group to work at the Kerlin cemetery for clean-up. :) Also nice to see the added pictures to your web site of Kerlin. Keep up the great work. Cindy > I have to put in my two cents about cleaning old cemeteries. A friend > of mine, my sister and I are trying to set up a website for Kerlin > Cemetery which is located near Halls, MO in Buchanan County. As time > permits we go and photograph the tombstones and transcribe the > writings on the tombstones. Kerlin is usually mowed a couple of times > each year. However, the grass was about a foot tall. Trying to find > the tombstones was nearly impossible. Last Sunday several of us who > have family buried there met to mow and weed-eat and clean up the > cemetery. This cemetery is one of the oldest in Buchanan County. It > is located in the bluffs on a pretty steep hillside. My main fear was > snakes. And, most of the snakes would either be copperheads or > rattlesnakes. Luckily, all that was seen was 4 garter snakes. > Moreover,, I didn't actually see any! I was sure proud when we got > home. We had really did something that day cleaning it up. Below is > the link for the website. You can click on the thumbnail and see all > of us and the hillside behind us that we had to contend with. And, as > time permits, I will be adding more names and pictures. My gr-gr-gr > grandfather William McCoy was buried at Kerlin in 1866. > > Calvin Funk > http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~crfunk/kerlin.html

What a wonderful kindness to do for so many people. Your work on the cemetery certainly paid off and I'm sure those who found family names/pictures on your website are very grateful to you and the crew who did all of the work. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have pictures of all the headstones in MANY cemeteries on the Internet? In addition to cleaning the cemetery, you have preserved it for many others to enjoy. Thanks for all the hard work. Twila >> I have to put in my two cents about cleaning old cemeteries. A friend of >> mine, my sister and I are trying to set up a website for Kerlin Cemetery >> which is located near Halls, MO in Buchanan County. As time permits we >> go and photograph the tombstones and transcribe the writings on the >> tombstones. Kerlin is usually mowed a couple of times each year. >> However, the grass was about a foot tall. Trying to find the tombstones >> was nearly impossible. Last Sunday several of us who have family buried >> there met to mow and weed-eat and clean up the cemetery. This cemetery >> is one of the oldest in Buchanan County. It is located in the bluffs on >> a pretty steep hillside. My main fear was snakes. And, most of the >> snakes would either be copperheads or rattlesnakes. Luckily, all that >> was seen was 4 garter snakes. Moreover,, I didn't actually see any! I >> was sure proud when we got home. We had really did something that day >> cleaning it up. Below is the link for the website. You can click on the >> thumbnail and see all of us and the hillside behind us that we had to >> contend with. And, as time permits, I will be adding more names and >> pictures. My gr-gr-gr grandfather William McCoy was buried at Kerlin in >> 1866. >> >> Calvin Funk >> http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~crfunk/kerlin.html > > ______________________________