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Hough enlisted students at a local riding camp to help with the next stage of restoration. He gave each a short digging tool and told them to gently scratch away earth from the gravestones — a couple of dozen were visible — and carefully place any items they unearthed in a plastic bag beside it.
Two of the girls uncovered broken pieces of a headstone; they placed the stone bits together cm the ground.
“I think it says ‘Clyde Poe’,” Alyssa Thompson, 15, said as she tried to fit the broken edges of stone. “But Fm not sure, maybe ‘Claude’.”
Other undamaged stones in the graveyard are marked in carved cursive script. “Elizabeth Fbe,” one reads. “Died 1855. Aged 1”
Hough noted that many of the gravestones — the visible ones span from 1846 to 1860 — have identical script. “1 think probably an artisan came through here and did them all at the same time,” he said. “Not when the people died, but later, all at once. The family would have brought him down here and pointed to a flat stone marker and said, ‘Ok. This was Aunt Mabel, and this one here was little Charlie.’ Then he would have made the stones you see here today.”
It is only after years of neglect, as properties change hands and relatives move away or die. Hough said, that
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