Peggy, There is a cemetery in Weakley County I am not sure of which one it is. Maybe some of you reading this knows where it is. My great great granddad James Monroe MCCLAIN is buried there. He was born June 25, 1855 died April 11, 1911. Does anyone have any pictures of him, his family, or his grave? Peggy, I also grew up around cemeteries and I use to look at the graves and imagine about their lives. My dad used to take us every week sometimes twice a week to visit his dad's and family's cemetery and other family cemeteries. I know them know like the back of my hand. I feel comfortable there. My kids kinda think I am morbid but that's kids. It probably never occured to your grandson's teacher about all of the grandparents he has. I never knew what a long line and that I had so much family and how they multiply until I started researching them. Now though that I have started researching them, I can't stop. It is like a puzzle. It is addictive. I remember going to the cemeteries growing up and my dad would tell stories about the family and the people he remembered from his youth who were buried there. I do that with my kids now but they just don't seem to appreciate it much. Kim ----- Original Message ----- From: <Peggyt1950@aol.com> To: <tnhenry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 11:34 AM Subject: [TNHENRY] Cemetery hopping >I grew up close enough to Salem (Primitive? Missionary?) Baptist Church on > Blooming Grove Road in Weakley County to play there in the cemetery all > the > time as a child. We would even sneak in a back window of the church to > hold > "services." I was as comfortable among the tombstones as I was in my > living > room. I would read the inscriptions and try to imagine their lives. The > dedication stone I believe said "Stephen Pate 1844" and that sure seemed > like a > long time ago to me back around 1960. Still seems like a long time ago > now. I > always felt really bad for the graves that just had piles of sandstone on > them because no one would ever remember who they were. > > Cemetery hopping became a pastime that I shared with my father and we > spent > many good times driving the old country roads around Henry and Weakley > Counties searching for this grave or that. My dad could remember who a > lot of them > were and would point out the more gruesome deaths, like the accidents or > the > suicides or the murders. I guess that's what stood out in his mind when > he > was young. > > This past fall I got a call from my grandson in Illinois saying that his > teacher had assigned the class to tell where their ancestors had come from > and > why they came to America. Then they had to find out about the native > dress, > diet, etc. of these folks. When he asked me where his ancestors came > from I > was a little surprised and said, "Which ones?" It sort of bothered me > that > the teacher didn't understand that each one of those children had > hundreds of > grandparents. On his dad's side of the family, I could go back far > enough on > one line to tell him when they came to America and why. They actually > were > Quakers who settled in New Jersey and were very well documented in the > Minutes > of the church. I'm not able to participate in the daily life of my > grandson, so I was really happy that he called me to help him with > homework and he > was really proud to be able to report exactly when, where and why one set > of > grandparents came to America. > > Peggy M. T. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHENRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Workman Cemetery. Garry Brown gsbrown4@yahoo.com Albuquerque, NM