Izetta and group, I went out after work for an hour today looking for your cemetery and couldn't find it, so let me tell you of my adventure. I didn't talk with Gary Orndorff, but did talk to his wife, Robin. She had never been there, but she mentioned the neighbor in the trailer, so I went there, and the husband was at work, and the wife there didn't know where it was, all they did was point into the woods. I parked the truck at the end of the road, and headed through the barbed-wire fencing. After getting into the first field and briers and brambles. I walked up the left-hand middle side of the property and guess what I found, a cemetery, and guess which one? Not the McCauley. Which do you think? http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/hiettj.htm the John Hiett Cemetery next to the old log cabin on the John Whitacre farm. Then I headed around the cemetery to the left and walked east until I came to the fence on the far side of the cow pasture. Then back through more stickers and back to where I started. I kept walking and headed to the far west side of the field and came to as close to the woods as I could and followed and followed, and still nothing, this time I was by the old log cabin and the big read barn and cows. This time I walked past the log cabin and headed back and forth across the big field heading toward my truck. Still nothing. So I got in my truck and headed home, it was getting dark. Let me tell you of my conclusions. First, there are plenty of rocks and deer on the property. Did I mention stickers? Don't waste your time wandering the fields this weekend looking for the cemetery unless you wear yellow or orange or red. This is the first weekend for bow hunting. So if you go out, be careful. When you talked to Mr. Whitacre, where did he say the cemetery was in relation to where his house was (this is the place where the dog was tied up when we were driving through the cow pastures right?) I'm just curious if we are searching the wrong fields. To my knowledge there is no place that had two chimney, either fallen down or standing where I walked and I walked alot. I came to a maybe conclusion. Could the two chimney house you are looking be the old house that is by the John Hiett Cemetery? I know that you mentioned that the house had fallen down, or did you? The person that has the property to the east of the Whitacre place is 150+ acres with an old white house on it. Could this be the place to search???? That is it for now, lets email about this if you have the time, you ask question, I ask, you answer, I answer and maybe we can figure this out. My final conclusion for the day. NO MCCAULEY CEMETERY in the vicinity. Could it be east of the Whitacres. Wayne At 10:36 PM 10/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Wayne, >I don't know any thing about this cemetery. Only that John Whitacre told >me himself before he went to the nursing home that there was one >there. He didn't remember any names but said there was markers. He even >went with my cousin Peggy and I one day but he couldn't find it,that was >back in about 1998 and he was sick at the time, he was walking with a cane >and I just don't think he could remember things very well as he had had a >stroke a while before . I doubt if many people even knows that the >cemetery is there. I have no idea what the name would be, We are hoping >George McCauley Jr.& wife Julianna Pepper McCauley might be there. They >are our gr gr grandparents. >I have been there 3 times trying to find it ,but no success. Sunday, >we couldn't even find the 2 brick chimneys that we saw before, maybe they >have fallen down. This is 157 acres and it supposedly joins the farm that >we were on and inventoried the grave markers.[ His home place] The only >thing I can give as far as directions is that you go all the way back >Timber Ridge road on down through the Buffalo development to the very >end where there is a circle ending the road. Gary Orndorff told us he knew >exactly where it is, and that it has a fence around it with markers but he >never checked to see who they were. He promised he would show us where it >is. Gary lives on the last lane on the left just before the end of the >road. you go just a short distance and it dead ends and he is the last >house on the left. [don't remember the name of the street] >His number is 856-1853 if you would like to call him and tell him what >you are doing and that you are trying to help us also. I don't know what >time he gets home from work,I believe he said that he worked in Winchester. >Maybe after 4 years of trying ,one of us will be lucky and find it. > >Sorry my directions are not very short and clear. Like I told you I have >no sence for directions] > >Izetta > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[email protected]>R. Wayne McGahuey >To: <mailto:[email protected]>Izetta Barbour >Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:21 PM >Subject: Re: Cemeterying > >Izetta, > >Write down what you know of this cemetery, where and who might be >there. Any directions you have of any sort. And maybe I can get out. > >When you say opposite end, in relations to where? > >Wayne > >At 08:08 AM 10/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>Wayne, >> >>I was talking about the one way back to the end of Timber Ridge Road, >>there as you are going west off of Cooper Mt. turning at the Central >>United Methodist Church, the one that I am hoping may be the McCauley >>cemetery. This one is on John Whitacre's property also, only it is on >>the opposite end of where we were before. >>I called Gary Orndorff and he said he had to go to his parents for dinner >>but would be back by the time we came back from the viewing for Don >>McCauley at Romney at 5 o'clock. I guess he got tied up with some >>unknown plans. My cousin and I waited until 5:45 and then we decided to >>walk around a while but we couldn't find it. It was getting around 7 >>o'clock and his wife came home from a reunion she had attended. She said >>she knew he would be there next Sunday . So I am going to try and come >>down. I will let you know. >> >>I took my cell phone with us just in case we should need help, but I >>don't like to be out there by our self. >>[you know BEARS..SNAKES..ect] >> >>Will talk later. >> >>Izetta >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <mailto:[email protected]>R. Wayne McGahuey >>To: <mailto:[email protected]>Izetta Barbour >>Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 5:41 PM >>Subject: Re: Cemeterying >> >>Izetta, >> >>What cemetery are you talking about? >> >>We had a funeral in my neighborhood today. Our next door neighbor "CJ" >>(don't know his last name, they kept to themselves) was killed last week >>in a auto accident in Junction. He was 17. The service was in Capon >>Bridge, and they buried him in a private service in Burlington. >> >>Linda and I were out of town for the weekend. >> >>Wayne >> >>At 08:55 AM 10/6/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>>Good Morning Wayne, >>> Just a little food for thought. I have to go to McKee Funeral home >>> for a little while for a McCauley viewing >>> 2-4 . We won't be there for long. I will try and get in touch with >>> the Orndorff guy and maybe he will show us where that cemetery is at. >>> I thought maybe you and Linda would like to meet us and see if we >>> could check it out. 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