Friday, June 13, 2025
There's a lot of history in a graveyard--- Like this monument in a little graveyard not very far from yesterday's barn. It says that Samuel P. Ferrier was born in 1808, in Smith County, Tennessee. The USA was pretty young! That's before our last spat with the British, The War of 1812! Samuel died in Lewis County (Lewis and Clark, explorers), W.T., in 1882. W.T.? Washington Territory! Washington wasn't even a state until 1889.
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Wow. I find old graveyards fascinating - and sometimes very sad.
The stone looks ancient! Almost like ivory
Those old graveyards are interesting. I am sure Samuel has some good stories to tell :-D
Wow, those gravestones are ornate too. I wonder about their lives, living through those times, what it was like.
Qué de cosas puede contar una lápida
Con tus palabras has conseguido que el recuerdo de este hombre haya vuelto a la vida...
Un saludo, amigo
Un pedacito de historia de tu país bien ilustrada y que contiene una cierta emoción.
Samuel Ferrier lived through much of the 19th Century and survived the war of 1812, and the Civil War. It was a turbulent century.
Muchas vidas se han perdido a consecuencia de la guerra. Nos gustaría vivir en un mundo de paz.
Feliz fin de semana.
That's an amazing piece of history! What must life have been like back then?
The gravestone is a beauty, someone's been taking care of it.
My he was born a longtime ago and lived a hard life I bet.
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