: : The number of cemeteries in Rockingham County is beyond calculation. There : are thirty two in Epping alone. Most are in the woods where once there was : a hayfield with a shaded corner. The Tilton cemetery on Blake Road (West : Epping)includes a 30 inch high monument erected by parents of a son who : went west in the 1840s, never to their knowledge to return. However, one : day,after the Civil War, children at the Tilton house saw a livery wagon : stop in the road. A man climbed out, walked up the field to the cemetery, : stayed a while, returned to the wagon and drove away. They went up to see : what they could and found the hay over the graves of the parents matted : where someone had lain. One of the children told Mrs ___ Folsom Blair who, : when in her 80's, told me in 1962. : : Charlie Bond