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What do you make of this Guy?

It's a surname of English origin due to the abundance of chalk in the area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk

I was suggesting that the person in my link is the same person as the one in the grave despite the typos.

C'mon. How many Chalkley's (first name) are there in Burlington County, let alone the world! And dying within 5 years of each other?

I recall a Willitts from Chatsworth. Willie I think his name was.

Could this be the same man, with maybe a typo on death date? https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/chalkley-willits-24-3w7zsm

You are a good man to ride the river with Ron.

Ron, I'm pretty sure that slender Rhynchospora leaning against the orchid where the flowers begin is Rhynchospora oligantha.

Aug 2003. Southern yellow Orchid

Feb 2003 Blizzard. My neighbors A frame house.

This was Big White. I used to visit the location often to see how big they could get. I think an early canon digital Jul 2002.

That was the original road, from the 30's.

Super-dooper. Thanks Boyd.

Yeah, definitely charcoal in your hand.

Ted makes this caption on a photograph in the essay: "A partially set charcoal kiln or "pit" (the latter, a misnomer) using eight-foot railroad ties. While earlier European charcoal production was done in pits below ground, the traditional American "pit" was always completely above ground...

Here is an interesting statement by Mr. Payne in the Gordon essay: "I've burned charcoal every conceivable way...from using that metal kiln you see sitting over there to that partially buried pit with the drainage pipes sticking out". The latter was his latest "coaling" experiment, suggested by...

I have Ted Gordon's essay about Herbert Payne, the last of the old time Charcoal Makers. Almost any wood can be used, and he did use pine too. At one point he was using railroad ties on the outside supplemented with pine.

I always thought that road lacking. It does not include some key areas like route 563. It does not include 539 either, with the plains, and Webbs Mill Bog. I think the people who developed it live south of the Mullica.

Interesting Gabe. On the regular aerial, are there any roads or trails leading to it? Is that the edge of a hard road I see in the upper left corner?

Yes, some guy name Howie Witzer showed it to me.