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Oldest headstone in your area

Dargo

Dargo

Like a bad penny...
I was showing my son an old cemetery that used to have a one room school house next to it (at least last time I was there in the late 70's). The old school was gone, which was a bummer. The oldest coin I have was found under the rotted floor there. It is a 1902 (I think, it's in a safe deposit box) penny.

Anyway, we looked through the cemetery and noticed that one section was for people who fought in the Revolutionary War. Here is a picture of the headstone of a guy who was born in 1761 and died in 1816. It's interesting for several reasons, one of which is that 1816 is the year that Indiana became a state.

I assume that out east you guys probably have some older headstones. What is the oldest you can still read? Some in the old cemetery where I took this pic were simply too weathered to be read.
 

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I assume that out east you guys probably have some older headstones. What is the oldest you can still read? Some in the old cemetery where I took this pic were simply too weathered to be read.
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Around my area, most of the burials of that era were put in family cemetaries.

I've been to a couple of these small cemetaries but most of the stones have fallen/broken off or the engraving has worn off due to weathering (they're made primarily of sandstone).

I know there's cemetaries in the area that date to the mid-late 1700's but I haven't visited.
 
Vermont has some old ones. Down the road from my wifes grandmothers house (which was built in the 1800's and family still lives there, that's another story) there is a cemetary that has a bunch of graves from the revolutionary war as well. Very interesting.

Charleston, S.C comes to mind as well (as far as "old graves"). Thing that amazes me about cities such as Savanah and Charleston is the history and how well it's preserved (like walking through time in some places and some of the history is amazing). That being said, codes as far as what you can or cannot do can get "interesting" as far as what you own).
 
Go to thee ole town of Dublin, Ireland my friend. Tombstones go way back. One of the best places I have ever visited.


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