manumuskin said:
Ben and Guy,
I agree with both of you that it does seem Beck is talking about the one at union clay works but my question is why would the people that lived at red oak grove bury their dead all the way up at the works?
Al
Again, there most probably were graves at both other places, but wooden markers may have been used. I am wondering if the ones at Union were made right there at their clay works, because they have a look similar to the inside of the pipes scattered about. They may have even been the owners family, which would be the reason they are not wooden.....he had money. The employees may have not been well paid, and so they had sandstone graves as you saw. And if Red Oak Grove was during a different era, there would not have been a clay works to make the stones. So probably wooden markers were used, just like at Hampton Furnace as Beck mentions in the Tuckerton Road chapter of Forgotten towns.
I am betting on wood at Red Oak and Old Half Way, or Buzby would have given Beck directions to them also. Just a guess...maybe someone knows, but I don't!
Guy