> I am not sure the following is applicable to your interest, but you can > decide. > Your description sounds almost similar to the Dempsey Cribb Cemetery. > However, the road to where the Cemetery was is still very passable and there is no > bridge there now. I have found no record of any one buried there except Dempsey. > This Cemetery is listed in the book "101 Cemeteries in Marion County." > However, I discussed this Cemetery with an "Old Timer" in the area, who said he used > to work that land when a young man. He said there were other graves there but > he had no memory of the details. > > Dempsey Cribb is the bro to my Great Grand Father Anthony Cribb b 1800. The > Dempsey Cribb Cemetery is no longer there. It has been abandoned and the Head > Stones have been "destroyed." There are no visible signs of the Cemetery there > now, only a large open farm field. > > Location ------ > Begin at the Cross Road of Fork, proceed South on Hwy 41 for about 1/2 mile. > Turn Left (East) on Buck Swamp Road for exactly 1 1/10 miles. Turn Right > (South) onto a narrow unpaved road with a small cow pasture on the Left side of the > road and woods on the Right side. Continue straight on for exactly 4/10 mile. > The road ends here, but you can easily turn to the Right between a very large > open field on your left side and a woods hedge row on your right side. > Continue on a short distance until you get to a open space in the woods and stop. As > you sit in your car, look to your left at about 11:00 o'clock and see a > building in the edge of the woods beyond the open field. At one time there was a > road along the direction you are looking. The Cemetery was on the left side of > the road about 1/2 way to the woods. > > If this is of interest to you and if you wish to explore it further, you may > wish to talk with the "Old Timer" mentioned above. It was several years ago > that I talked with and he may no longer be there. At that time his home was ---- > While you are on Buck Swamp Road proceed East past the Nursing Home, down a > slight dip in the road. As the road begins to incline and a short distance past > the small swampy woods area, his house is on the right side of the road. > > Feel free to come back if you wish. Take care and good luck > > Ernest T. Cribb > Cantonment, Fl (Near Pensacola on the Gulf Coast) > >