When I worked at Cessna in Wichita, KS, there was a little graveyard right along one of the plant roads. It was a single grave surrounded by a 3 foot high wrought iron fence. The tombstone (which was still in pretty good shape) indicated that the occupant was the child of a settler named Wycoff who died ca 1870 (the date was there- I just can't remember it). I was told that Cessna was required by law to maintain the grave. But it may just have been corporate kindness. Too bad that more companies aren't so considerate. Phil [email protected] wrote: > > Here are some other stories and mentions from Bud Phillips book, Bristol, > Tn./Va. He tells the story of a black infant who was buried on the lot where > Lee Street Baptist Church now stands.The grave was never marked and the > parents left Bristol soon after he died. The grave has been lost. Within a > few years a house was built there, then the church. I find this so very sad, > but guess it happened often in old days. > Mr. Phillips tells another story in this chapter of his book about a > mother and her child during the Civil War that lived in a little house that > stood on the southwest corner of 8th & Main ( State) Street. The husband was > serving in the Confederate Army and in late winter or early spring the child > died. The mother buried the child at the edge of the garden behind her home. > The father died at Gettysburg and the mother returned to Wytheville to her > family. With the passing years the grave faded out and become overgrown. The > grave now lies under or behind the First Tennesse Bank.