Flint Hill Cemetery

This photo was taken at the Flint Hill Cemetery behind a small church. The cemetery is surrounded by the stone wall you see in the photo, and there is an iron gate at the entrance that no longer closes shut due to how much the cemetery has settled over the years. Along the side of the wall there are a lot of old graves, some that have visible stones, others you can no longer see. In this picture you can see the small stone covered in leaves at the base of the wall, almost hidden from sight. Closer you can see the larger stone with all the names of a single family written on it. You cannot see due to the leaves, but there are many small stones lined up against the wall, covered up. The church paid to have a single, larger stone built to honor the life of the family buried under the leaves. I love this photo because I do not see people fixing/replacing stones very often and it makes me happy to know that this family can be better remembered.

 

This photo above, however, is an example of a life that has been forgotten. The stone reads 11 years, 10 months, and 29 days; the stone is half buried under the ground and there is no telling for how long it has been there. There are many more stones like this on the property, and many of them you can no longer see. The cemetery itself looks half empty, but it is very full.