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    1. Re: abandoned cemetary somewhere aroud Perrytown
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Anders, Ashley, Gober Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FMB.2ACI/369.2 Message Board Post: I do know of one such cemetery. My grandmother's mother, Laura Annie Anders wife of Da vid Gober was buried there in Aug 1807. At the time my great Uncle, Charles Gober, her youngest son, was 7 years old. He told me he returned to his mother's grave in later years and found the graveyard grown up in trees with a tree, to big for him to reach around, growing out of his mother's grave. It was probably 1952 or 53 when he told me. He died in 1976. He often talked of Wilkinson co., where he grew up, but I had never gone there and didn't ask the right questions. I do remember he saying that they took his mother's body to a graveyard between where they were living and Rosetta. At her death, they were living in a house next to a cemetery owned by George Neal Ashley. Neal, his wife, and son are the only headstones there now. In the cemetery book it is called, Ashley 1. [and the birth/death dates are incorrect] At the time of Laura's death, her oldest daughter was married to George Neal Ashley. She was Neal's 2nd wife. I never understood why, when there was a graveyard next to there house, she wasn't buried there. It has to have been, either a cemetery of a church [which no one has ever mentioned to me] or a private graveyard of a relative. She was the daughter of John D. Anders and Martha Anne Redmond. A few years back I visited John Robert Murray, now deceased. John Robert, lived on the Perrytown Road, just past the Church of Christ and was borned and raised in the Rosetta area. He had me drive back toward Rosetta and stop near a house on the side of the road. He told me there was an old cemetery, taken over by trees, down an embankment there. He told me how to find it but suggested, since it is really rough country, that I ask the young men living in the house if there were any headstones, as they would probably know. No one seem to be home at the time and I forgot about it on later trips. Virginia

    07/03/2006 05:06:53