@888rachel@gigiflower@janeandcharlie I come to expect that all graves will have nice headstones with deep and meaningful inscriptions. But this is not always the case - especially in older grave sites.
Headstones cost money and quite often, these early pioneers had precious little to waste on a nice marble headstone and the appropriate inscription.
As well as money, it also needed someone, usually family who remained behind to organise and pay for a headstone. Once again, in places like Jundah, these people were on their own with no family at all.
So more often than not, the person was buried, a simple wooden cross would be erected to mark the plot and that would be it. Within a few years, the timber would have disappeared and the plot lot forever.
If you were lucky, the plot number may have been recorded but often, as was the case here, it wasn't. All we had was that he was buried in Jundah.
Rhoda and I have traipsed all over England, Scotland and Ireland as well as Poland and Germany looking for the graves of my ancestors and have not found a single one. They were all peasants and the families were dirt poor with no money to waste on a grave
August 30th, 2017
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Headstones cost money and quite often, these early pioneers had precious little to waste on a nice marble headstone and the appropriate inscription.
As well as money, it also needed someone, usually family who remained behind to organise and pay for a headstone. Once again, in places like Jundah, these people were on their own with no family at all.
So more often than not, the person was buried, a simple wooden cross would be erected to mark the plot and that would be it. Within a few years, the timber would have disappeared and the plot lot forever.
If you were lucky, the plot number may have been recorded but often, as was the case here, it wasn't. All we had was that he was buried in Jundah.
Rhoda and I have traipsed all over England, Scotland and Ireland as well as Poland and Germany looking for the graves of my ancestors and have not found a single one. They were all peasants and the families were dirt poor with no money to waste on a grave