The last two days I have recorded the white burials at the mixed-race antebellum Big Springs Cemetery in southeastern Madison County. Is anyone on this list familiar with the cemetery? I was wondering when the fieldstones were removed? 1900-1910 when several large family plots were laid out in the core of the white cemetery, or in the 1940s when an annual cleanup was replaced by periodic mowing? In particular I am having a hard time estimating the degree to which space has been reused. I think extensively in the white section, but not at all in the black section. The white cemetery grew eastward along the crest line of the low hill it lies on, and the cemetery was large in area by the end of the nineteenth century. Yet at one place there are two rows of markers for burials in the 1970s or later at the crest of the ridge between two rows of markers with death dates in the 1880s and 1890. As I can see unmarked graves in these two rows wherever there are no post-1970 markers, I double that any of this space was free in 1970. David ddonahue@netease.net