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    2. Vonda Sheets
    3. Ideana, Neither cem is in a town. I've discussed them before; Cupp Cemetery is just off South Hwy 65, on the west side of the road. It's the first road south of Bear Creek, which you'll go over. Old Meadows Cemetery is on a ridge above Bull Creek, some distance upstream from Walnut Shade. Walnut Shade is on Hwy 160, which is the first interchange south of Cupp Cemetery. (160/65) Go east from Hwy 65 on 160; you'll need to make a sharp turn left on Hwy 176 before you actually reach the buildings of Walnut Shade. You might want to drive thru Walnut Shade first, then turn around, to get an idea of what your people saw during those times (although there are considerably more houses now). Going N/NW on 176 from Walnut Shade, you'll travel on an old road bed that the Keithleys and other Walnut Shade families cut out in the late 1800s. There is still a big ranch on that plateau, which you continue to climb. The road to take to Bluff and Old Meadows Cemetery is called Round Mountain Drive off 176. It's kind of a weird intersection, for Goodnight Hollow road also meets Round Mtn. Drive there. You can take either one, because they meet up again down in the "holler", and you'll take a concrete low-water bridge over Bull Creek. Better check with the weather forecast, for you won't be able to cross the creek if we've gotten a lot of rain, as is typical for October. Bluff is a couple miles up this road, which meanders along with Bull Creek, slowly climbing a ridge which leads to the old School House and cemetery, which will be on your right. Impossible to miss. This road will continue on into Christian county, and you can come out over on H Hwy, which runs north of Forsyth to Chadwick (and is also an old wagon trail--I think it was the old Springfield-Harrison Road). Beautiful drive, even if the trees are past their changing with the seasons. Vonda

    08/30/2000 02:42:24