This is a cemetery I want to go back and spend more time looking closer at the headstones, perhaps doing some rubbings on nice archival paper.
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Patton cemetery, estd. 1794, Trustees Mrs. A. B. White and P. P. Thomas. |
So we started to look for the oldest grave stone here, but didn't have time to look at them all.
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Infant Porter d. 1887 |
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Another Porter child, died 1896 |
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Confederate Marker, Patton Cemetery |
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More Confederate flags were here...and no American flags. |
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Hemphill 1843-79 |
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Aaron died 1826, age 52 to 71 years |
Aaron's marker must have been a replacement, perhaps of the little stone behind it. The age range might indicate his descendents didn't really remember how old he had been in 1826.
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Alexander Porter, 1798-1861 |
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Stone house and retaining wall, up the gravel portion of Patton Cemetery Road, Swannanoa, NC |
Tomorrow I'll show you the first batch of pictures from the Swannano Presbyterian Church, or Piney Grove Cemetery, with Revolutionary War veterans!
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