Featured Finds Thread

with binoculars lol

 

Love the Minnesota pictures, Terry! You went past Duluth on your way, no? Heck of a ride, but the scenery was great!

My Dad's mother, born in Michigan in 1890, spent about 20 years of her early life in Duluth and then Hibbing. Her parents both died in Hibbing in the 20's, but for some strange reason I haven't been able to find their graves on line. When I was young she used to talk about growing up there, but most of it was about how COLD it was.

 

At that time it was more common for them to be buried at home than at a cemetery.

 

So... does that mean that little old houses out in the boonies have bodies buried nearby???????

 

True, but they weren't farmers. Lived right in town. So I wouldn't think "burial at home" to have been an option.

 

So I wouldn't think "burial at home" to have been an option.

It worked fine for my first and third wives. Just means a bigger patio.

 

The world would be such a dull, and boring, place without you. Af

 

Some do. A friend in Pennsylvania had gravestones on his farm. They were originals that had been replaced and thus no longer marking anything, but even so.... Other old family places do have graveyards on the property. Families who lived out in the boonies didn't have an awful lot of options, back when. No fear though; dead and buried folks make really quiet neighbors. And I'd think a Mexican would like having a graveyard around; it would save a trek on the Day of the Dead.

 

Look similar, same maker, but not really a set

 

Evelyb, thanks. Yes, you could have your own private Day of the Dead, couldn't you? Would save you from having to hire a taxi after toasting the departed all night.

AF... what was wife 2's secret?

 

Hi,
We lived in the "boonies" and my uncles farm had a graveyard, there were 7 tombstones from 1803 to 1812. When I wanted a remembrance from my grandfolks home which was being razed. It was built in 1694 and in 1960 it was gone. I took the marble slab form the front door. I dug it out and was cleaning it up and turned it over. It was a tombstone from 1809 but you could not see the name very clearly. I used it as a coffee table for several years until my ex wife made me give it away. It gave her the "willies".
greg

 

AF... what was wife 2's secret?

She liked parachute jumping...till the end, anyways.

 

Gregggsie!
So the graves are still there??? Did they just plow them over????
Do you suppose there are unmarked graves all over the place at old country homes, whether still occupied or no??

AF!
Did you manage to save their jewelry? (With #2, for example... "Honey, let me hold your ring so it doesn't blow off while you're diving with that old, badly-packed, frayed-rip-cord parachute that I bought you for our Anniversary?"

 

Of course, how else could I use the same lot every time?

 

But of course.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnd...
If my ol' man ever comes to his sense and divorces me, I must remember not to date any English fellows with the initials AF.

 

I remember seeing one of these on a school field trip to the cannery in third grade

It was a very loud place inside

 

If I didn't know the origin, I'd wonder if it was the flag for Outer Slobovia. What does one do with a Jolly Green Giant pennant? A Jolly Roger maybe.

 

Yipes! Were they canning children?????

 

Soylent Green....Gummies !!!!!!