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Irene,
Thank you for the offer of photos, but I think I will pass - I would not have any useful input, and have enough on my plate without nibbling from yours!
Old graveyards are one thing, the markers in them may be another. There are countless instances where family associations have put up markers that tell the story they want to tell, in much the same way as new-made 'family lore' was published in "County Histories" of ca. 1880-1910. Little pitfalls for the unwary. I read about a year ago of an old cemetery somewhere in the Carolinas in which some family members wanted to place a marker claiming Rev. War service for an ancestor - who was not even buried in the cemetery. There was a bit of a local uproar.
Then there are the memorial booklets that some think are 'burial records'. And purported gravestone readings on findagrave.com that make statements that are *not* on the markers and give no source for what is stated.
I am familiar with the surprisingly numerous surname clusters here and there. In one of my ancestral areas about 6 different Davis families arrived from the same small Eastern state, and they vastly outnumbered the Smiths and Joneses once they got going. Two of those lines are among my cousins, but happily I am not descended from any of them (to the best of my knowledge at present)!
I hope you can keep this fun!
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