Here is southwest Va. very old cemeteries were marked by old hemlock trees.. When I was about eleven years old I read "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn". There was an old cemetery about a mile from my house which people told me was an old Indian cemetery and there were giant hemlocks growing in it.. I talked my younger brother and my cousin into going down there and digging up some Indians.. When we got within sight of the cemetery I decided we should leave our mattocks and shovels in a fence row and check it out first before we got caught digging.. We walked on to the cemetery and I could read the names on some of the tombstones and I "knew" Indians didn't write in english! We didn't dig into the graves! Some of the stones were for people named Ingle and date about 1779.. The last of the old hemlock trees has now fallen and decayed...the fence which was no good when I was eleven has disappeared and the cattle have tramped the tombstones into the ground.. A Real Shame! I would guess there were 20 or more graves in that cemetery... G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.