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Graves
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a farm there in the early 1800s.
Looking at the site, you can see how it fell fallow. Maintenance of the handstacked, dry-laid decorative stone wall surrounding the graveyard was long-ago abandoned in favor of less expensive and less laborintensive barbed wire.
The wire more effectively kept stock out of the cemetery, but also made keeping the place up harder for the farm owners. A walnut tree took root at the north end of the graveyard — about 50 years ago by the look of it. An ash and poplar soon followed at the south end.
Roots entwined, pushing over headstones, erasing evidence of foots tones and burying any artifacts left there. The stone wall finally gave in altogether, becoming just a heap of rubble as modern machinery — namely, tractors with powerful mower decks — replaced a horsedrawn sickle bar long used to tend the site.
The cemetery was nearly erased.
One piece of evidence remained, though, a sign that the site was once a beloved spot: vinca vine — also called periwinkle — persists to this day, and that’s what Thieriot noticed when she combed her new farm a few years ago.
She saw the evergreen vine growing around a heap of rocks in the middle of her paddock, but did not recognize its relevance.
The tough ornamental flowering groundcover is not native to the area, so it uad to have been planted there.
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