Cemetary Road

[kingofthepines]

At the end of cemetary road in Knowlton is........a cemetary.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.920602,-75.015271&spn=0.001913,0.003573&t=k&z=18&om=1

what I didn't know until after I had left was that the small round structure at the top of the cemetary used to be a 1 room schoolhouse circa 1850 and unfortunately did not take a picture because I thought it was probably just a storage facility, which nowadays I'm sure it is. Many old headstones from the civil war era and the inscription on one particuliar stone required a photo. Its difficult to read the from the pic but it reads:

Remember me as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me


This kid died in 1888 and was 18 years old.

 

[Ben Ruset]

Remember me as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me

That was actually quite a popular epitaph back in those days. There are several stones with that inscribed down by Smithville.

 

[bobpbx]

That was actually quite a popular epitaph back in those days. There are several stones with that inscribed down by Smithville.

And a stone in Atsion. I like that one.

But it starts out:

Come young and old as you pass by,

 

[LARGO]

There's one in the Grace Baptist Church Cemetary in Atsion as well.
I posted on that one in my thread with the Church image.
The wear on the stone is about the same.
I feel like the year is pretty close too.

G.

Look at you Bob, we were typing the same thing!
You had me by 2 minutes bud.