dee_burris: (candle)dee_burris ([personal profile] dee_burris) wrote,
@ 2011-10-28 06:32 pm UTC
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Entry tags:pope co ar, sepia saturday, st joe cemetery, st joe church
While I was at my dad's house, I took pictures of some more of his pictures.

What we believe to be the first building that became St. Joe Freewill Baptist Church - where my g-g-grandpa set up a Sunday school under a brush arbor until they could get a building - and the very beginning of the cemetery, way over to the right.

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St. Joe as I remember it when I was little kid, going to "Decoration" on Mother's Day...

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There's a very nice, modest brick building there now.

And a much larger cemetery.




This is a Sepia Saturday post.

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(Anonymous)
2011-10-29 06:12 am UTC (link)
Thinking about it, it makes sense that the cemetery would get larger as more and more people die and need to be buried. The little white frame church is a very handsome building.
Nancy from My Ancestors and Me

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(Anonymous)
2011-10-29 06:05 pm UTC (link)
I wonder how long many of our cemeteries can continue as they are. If it weren't for cremation we would have been introuble long ago.

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(Anonymous)
2011-10-29 07:43 pm UTC (link)
Dee- these are great photos- I have a few like this of my country church. My grandma used to talk about baptizing in the river, brush arbor meetings, and all day singings.--It's sad- the cemeteries are getting larger. --Terri Buster

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