On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:49:23 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 8/23/2016 7:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> I can't imagine going to a cemetery around here and wandering around
>> just to see the interesting names, stones and crypts, but it was an an
>> incredible experience doing it there.
>
>Well, maybe not where you are or not to you. I find old stones, crypts
>and the inscriptions fascinating.
>
>When I was a teenager my mom would take me to the dentist. Not far from
>the dentist's office was the Old Raleigh Cemetery. It was unkempt,
>overgrown with weeds and hadn't been used or well maintained since the
>1940's. I convinced my mom to don some heavy boots (in case of snakes,
>dontcha know) and tramp around in it with me. The oldest stones dated
>from the early 1800's. The headstones of the married women buried there
>referred to them as "beloved consorts".
>
>There is a family cemetery on Dataw near the ruins of the original
>plantation house. Both the ruins and the cemetery have been designated
>historic landmarks.
>
>I briefly dabbled with the idea of doing gravestone rubbings.
>
>Jill

That was prior to the advent of photography. Nowadays those who are
interested in genealogy take photographs of tombstones.