DIGGING UP ROOTS

Today is a furlough day from work;
giving Danny and me the long weekend to dig up a cemetery down in Upton Co., Georgia.  I'm trying to find my Revolutionary War Great Grandfather - Jones Persons(1760-1849), so we can mark his grave and put up a DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) marker.

The cemetery sits back off of a country 2-lane road.  It's about 20' x 20', the size of a double car garage. We found Jones sons' grave-  Lovett (1814-1862) the first visit.

 

Last spring, we went back to clean out the small trees and vines. But even in the spring, the yellow jackets and snakes were coming out

of "every nook & cranny" 

and we came home with a

terrible case of poison ivy.

 Now that it's winter; we plan to rake and scrape off the top layer of dirt in hopes of finding flat stones with names and dates.

The only unbroken head stone is Lovett's wife, Malinda Lyon Persons (1825-1908).

It's been awhile since we have gotten away for the weekend - so we're looking forward to some adventure and hopefully finding Granddad Jones!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Joining up with

Show and Tell Friday at Romantic Home

 

New to follow is

Time Travel Thur. at The BrambleBerry Cottage.

How appropriate --

Wish I could travel back into time and

sit for an evening with Jones Persons.

So many questions I have. . . .