Thanks, Alicia, for your input. I suppose I should be grateful that the probable grave site is so far out of the way and overgrown. Maybe civilization will be held at bay for a few more years. There is a man in Surry / Stokes Co. NC who has made it his lifes work to try to identify and preserve these types of old graveyards. He has been successful for the most part. I remember my grandmother and other "adults" talking together about this person or that person who had buried a child on their property, and not in a "recognized" type graveyard. It seemed the thing to do then. I doubt most folks could afford to buy grave sites. A lot of my ancestors are buried in the Bowling Cemetery in Spanishburg. I often wonder what the connection was between the Bowling family and the Lawsons. Perhaps friendship as I have found no blood connection. I assume the Bowlings were kind enough to give up part of their land to bury local folks. Someone does a nice job in maintaining it too. Glenda ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com