Great-great-great grandparents’ graves

Today I met my brother (and his two sons) in central Kentucky and we found again the homestead and cemetery established by great-great-great grandparents. The house and barn are still standing, but we’re not sure for how much longer.

It was all easy — even though our previous visit together was 18 years ago — once we found the barn (which is visible from Google Maps satellite imagery). It was touch-and-go finding the barn as we went too far down the initial truck path, but eventually we got there!

This isn’t much of a photograph, except that these are the headstones on my great-great-great grandparents’ graves: Henry Shelby Mitchell on left and to the right his wife, Malinda Burton Mitchell.

Tomorrow is the family reunion that was the reason for the trip!

You can’t tell the players without a program! So here is the lineage:
1 Henry Shelby and Malinda Burton Mitchell
   2 William Henry Harrison Mitchell
      3 Alexander Harvey Mitchell
         4 Henry T. Mitchell
            5 Henry T. Mitchell, Jr.
               6 @rhoing :)

A year ago: “Somewhere…”

[Ruth Moucharafieh]

Beautiful light filtering through the trees....what an amazing achievement!!!! Enjoy the reunion!

[Michelle]

I just checked out the other shots.. Such a beautiful insight. Thank you for sharing

[Nada A.]

Wow. What a wonderful thing to be able to touch and capture your history in this way.

[Thom Mitchell]

@ruthmouch Thank you, Ruth! the lighting was quite challenging, and that, of course, is on top of the weathered gravestones.

@michelleyoung @nadaa For me, there is a bit of a sense of “awe,” for lack of a better word, when I visit these places where my forebears lived. For more from that perspective, check this out (it’s less than a page): http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DANCER/2000-04/0955722037 — Skip over the first two paragraphs and start with “I had a philosophy professor…” Alas, that page his been lost or relocated :(

[Nada A.]

Wow. That story makes you think. I think that is one reason I take so many pictures. It is one way to hold on to a memory.

Thank you for sharing the link.

[Thom Mitchell]

@nadaa My obnoxiousness with a camera began after my mom died suddenly (age 54) and we all discovered I had a good last photo of her with my dad… @nadaa

[Nada A.]

That's sad. My father in law passed away young also, and all we have is one small passport size picture of him. I wish we had more.

[Ellen E]

very cool. other shots are lovely too - especially that path

[Kim]

So neat that those old stones are still standing, and that you got to visit the homestead and cemetery.