The new and old Millersburg Cemeteries.

My third great grandfather, Samuel Munson died in 1833 in a cholera epidemic in Robertson County, Kentucky. He was born in Rowan, North Carolina. He moved to Kentucky in the time of Daniel Boone. I have references to the fact that he was buried in the old cemetery at Millersburg, Kentucky. I drove straight to what I thought was that cemetery when I entered Kentucky on my September 2011 trip. I could not find his gravestone. I thought that I was at the right cemetery. If you were to come to a small town and found a cemetery with 1860 on the entrance, would you not think you were in the "old" cemetery?

It turns out that the three pictures above were taken in the "new" Millersburg Cemetery. I went to the county courthouse and found out that the "old" cemetery was on the edge of town. With my heart pounding I drove to the "old" cemetery. The only care the cemetery received was mowing. Most of the sandstone gravestones were weathered until the engraving was unreadable. In fact, many were worn to the point that you could not see any trace of an engraving. One of these stones must be my great grandfather's stone. The bottom two pictures are of worn headstones. 

Based on my travels through many cemeteries I would hazard a guess that any sandstone headstone over 150 years old would be unreadable. I am a hundred years or so too late to  photograph most of my great grandfather's headstones.

The headstone of my 8th great grandfather was made in 1675. However, after his cemetery was moved, his stone was stored in a church basement for many years. It was set in a new stone and placed in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven Connecticut.