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It's a remote land locked plot with some fascinating history and a burial ground that may go as far back to the late 1700s. It is neither a family cemetery, but isn't purely a community burial ground either. It almost has more commonality with a traditional community church burial ground...except there isn't any unifying church, or anything at all other than an ancestral tie to the land itself. Thus as it grew and descendants and relations passed, maintenance likely fell on fewer and fewer, and simultaneously descendants of the interred largely left the area for Roanoke VA, WV, PA, MD, DC etc. Seemingly without a comprehensive caretaker - there are no known records, and while I trust many (not sure how many...) know a few folks were interred here, its likely no one knows even 5-10% of who is here and its also likely the handful who may know dont even know each other - again there are family links beginning in the first half of the 19th century, but many lines from there. It is an enormous space - humbling to be in - but as far as plots go it itself is under a good stand of trees and fairly clear actually. We are hopeful to improve the knowledge of and compile who may be interred here and reset some of the known markers down.

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Hilary gets all the credit for the videography...that's way outside of my qualifications!