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that compels us. It is, however, with a great deal of sadness we note that in another twenty years or so, many of these landmarks will disappear and even the most gifted searcher won’t be able to find them.
So with March’s lamb like weather we again engaged ourselves in another search. Gid Brown Hollow was on the agenda for this excursion. I know most of the cemeteries and have since an early date but many I’ve not been to and many I’d not realized were of the size etc. they are. Our first stop was to be the old Gearing place. This is above or beyond the J. Homer Fincham property near Pickeral Ridge. We located the old house but failed to find the cemetery after a few hours. However, since our attempt and having asked some other folks who know more of the area, we’ll try again.
Our second stop was at the Orie and Daisy Burke place, just up Daisy’s Rest Road. Though few persons know it, there is Gaunt family cemetery unmarked now, in the front comer of the yard. Nothing here to photo or document, but death records at the Clerk’s Office have the names and dates which have been extracted and entered in the album. Here at the Burke place, which I visited often as a young person, is the cabin where Bill Martin (William Henry Jett) lived, which we photographed. We then visited with David
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