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Post by arfcomhkr on Dec 17, 2014 18:26:14 GMT -5
Not in old, forgotten cemeteries, but just one of types. We found this lone grave a few years ago. If I recall it was around what was once the old lumber town of May in the MNF along FR44. It was between the old rail trail and the Greenbriar, just South of the old town site (I think). Some poor old soul lies there. Nothing inscribed. Reading the books on the area, for the most part people that died in the lumber camps/towns were put on the trains and shipped off to either their home towns, or Elkins for burial. Chances are this was some recent immigrant that had no family. Head stone-foot stone thing.   |
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Post by dunkard on Dec 19, 2014 13:27:50 GMT -5
Thats a cool find. Was there any old foundations? Maybe an old homestead.
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Post by arfcomhkr on Dec 19, 2014 15:20:27 GMT -5
Thats a cool find. Was there any old foundations? Maybe an old homestead. I've never seen much in the way of foundations at May, but I've never really looked that hard. It was a pretty big operation back in it's day though. You'll find much more of that at Wildell and Burner (where Little River meets the Greenbriar.) There's some remnants at Beulah on the left side of the trail between FR44 and the rail trail. Every one of those names on the map along FR44 was a lumber camp-town at one point time. Early spring, right after the snow melts is the best time to explore in there. |
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Post by jnk556 on Dec 20, 2014 22:49:40 GMT -5
I remember that grave, I think I might have spotted it, and your location is correct. I don't remember the details of the spot exactly, other than it was between the tracks and the river, so it may have had a house or shanty on it at one time. Who knows really who or what is buried there, there's all sorts of graves along RR's around here, and most are lost history. There's one up there where the RR tracks spit at Old Spruce on Cass's line. It's a iron pipe cross painted orange, and there is a camping spot at it as well.
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