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to buy a plot, Mr. Kerrick says “I couldn’t sell it....because I don’t know who owns it, or not”. Roughly speaking, a plot can hold fourteen coffins.
On one of the recent scorching days of this summer, Mr. Kerrick and a reporter were in the cemetery, examining the grounds and the plat that Mr. Kerrick has painstakingly constructed when a man of advanced years approached. The visitor was seeking the resting place of his wife, parents, and brother. Mr. Kerrick sought to be helpful; amid gentle conversation and some walking over various plots, pointing here and there, he showed the visitor where the relatives might be. Mr. Kerrick then emphasized the confusion engendered by the loss of the records: he offered that if the visitor were to claim ownership of a certain plot, “I could not dispute his word.”
As Mr. Kerrick looked over the hillside, he pointed to other cemeteries adjacent to the one the Masons have owned for a hundred years. Some acreage is devoted to soldiers killed in the War Between the States. Those bodies are to be found, it is said, on both sides of the Fodderstack Road. Some call it a burial ground of Confederates killed in action; others claim it is a collection exclusively of Union dead.
There is another, smaller collection of stones marking the graves of Odd Fellows, and there may be yet another area for paupers.
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