World's Oldest Man?

[SUPERUNDERDOGGIE]

Another tombstone I found in my travels yesterday.....

[Mikey]

Unwed mother's son who died before a year old ?

[wolfie]

Very possibly ,

.......................or maybe he is still REALLY out there.

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

Unwed mother's son who died before a year old ?

Making Mervina about 19 years old, when henry was born and died. . . .pretty good thinking. . . but he would have been buried first. 68 years earlier in fact. Is that how they would have the tomb 68 years after his death if this was the case????

Happy HALOWEEN!

[toys2cool]

lol whoa!

[Mikey]

Making Mervina about 19 years old, when henry was born and died. . . .pretty good thinking. . . but he would have been buried first. 68 years earlier in fact. Is that how they would have the tomb 68 years after his death if this was the case????

Happy HALOWEEN!

Many times in the 19th and early 20th century, a baby that died before they were a year old was usually buried in an unmarked grave ... Sometimes just marked with letter stone about 4" x 4".
This happened often in the rural USA back then.
This was the case, i'm guessing ...... and when the mother finally died, she had it planned to be buried in this plot with a true headstone for both.

[SUP-Ronin]

She had a prettty long life and must have lived thru a lot. Especially for that period. These shots are interesting.

[wolfie]

If you typed Melvina Hendricks into a search engine i wonder what you would get?

She would have been 85 when she died, Henry it would seem did not make it through his first year.

[hobub]

Pretty cool. We've got some very cool pioneer cemetaries around here. Some of which are in completely vacant areas that have been strip mined. These folks birthdates go as far back as the mid 1700s. We also have some logged cabins that are discovered now and again because they were sided. This may not be news to the 13 original (including WV) but here in OH, I'm in the oldest settled part of the state. Now we're talking Daniel Boone era. And with common area locale names in the area like Mingo, Schoenbrunn, Tuscarawas, Wyandott, Coshocton, Mohican etc, etc. seems like this wouldn't have been the safest area at the time of the Am. Revolution. Even Wheeling (across the river) has some deep seated Indian meaning, meant to ward off settlers. I've even located possibly the oldest house in the state of Ohio. (or at least the Ohio Valley region, which has notches in the foundation for fighting off Indians) It's located in Goulds Run near Mingo. As I have learned, most Indians were run off by the late 1790s in the area so this house is pretty old. And even with all this history around the area, with several pioneer cemetaries (some in deep wooded areas), the coal ind. is running strong here and allot of this historical part of Ohio is being torn all to hell. I heard about one cemetary where AEP uprooted the cemetary about 40 years back and these residents were covered in buck skin. I'm sure when these ancestors had their burial, they would have never imagined what their decendents had in store for them to make way for a Powerplant, coal mine or whatever else needed to make way. Oh well. (In the name of progress I guess)