Foxfan

Sounds good to me, you want to organize it??  ;D

At least we KNOW Tom Mix was real...we have him on film.

Yes its just having some fun, did you forget to take your pill this morning? :roll:

Maybe we should have a Tom Mix/Bigfoot Festival...

It's one thing to make a fool of yourself..To include the whole area is another matter...Oh, I know, it's all just good fun...

The Quiet Woman....no I was never in there.    Annie Vitarelli's on Dixon ...no never in there either.

PETA member Saves Four Eggs from Certain Death.....P.S.  If yolks and whites were meant to be separated, they would come in separate shells......

 

Four innocent lives saved by PETA member..

 

 

TIJUANA, MEXICO (The Global Edition)

why is this considered haunted?

It's more fun to talk about.

fox it is at the creast of the hiill coming south on beech st you will see the feilds then where the feilds end and the woods starts it is just inside the woods line

Yes...I could easily find it myself..Just trying to place it for others from my memory of being there. There must have been a large community near there, it has a real story to tell about the area, just as Beechwoods and Rumbarger, Salem, Luthersburg Cemeteries, and many more around the area.

Been there many times.  Nothing scary about it - beautiful, quiet place.   The graves in the woods area are not part of the main cemetery.  They are from the old Baptist cemetery.

Interesting ...I didn't know about a Baptist cemetery.  I looked for Buleah Land cemetery on google earth. While Beech Street and the area between Main and Wayne Road, is very detailed, I couldn't see exactly where the cemetery is. It is closer to Wayne Road, than Main St., as I remember.

Is this it?

Yes...those are very good pics. of it.

It is a spooky place. Many of the graves have been taken over by the surrounding woods, though the main portion of it sem to get some care... It does look like a Stephen King movie set. It's not a place you would find, unless you were looking for it..I don't know of any ghost sightings, maybe you have to believe in them to see them...

1 cup liquid fabric softener

3 cups water

 

Mix well. Put in spray bottle and use.

I bet that would make a sticky mess on everything .......Why not just get Fabreeze??

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That's Rick Santorum's home town.

 

I'll tell you what, I grew up in Indiana (the state) and really haven't had an incredibly good tomato since I left.  Others are good, but I just don't get that same Hoosier flavor elsewhere.

 

When I was a kid, we'd eat blt sandwiches without the b or l, just tomatoes on toast with Miracle Whip when they started coming off our vines.  Mmmmmm, probably just one of those childhood memories.  We've grown them here, a lot of different varieties, but they just aren't the same.

 

Like the one where I think Dr. Pepper tasted a lot better back then than it does now.

 

 

Made with a couple slabs of warm home made bread, and real butter...miracle whip is ok, but I like mayonnaise better...

 

History?....Hey, that was only 60 years ago....:ty:...for the memories..

Bleeding hearts?..Are they individual heart shaped buds hanging in a row?..Kinda heard to see..

I have learned that some people can be inspired to help and you're wasting your breath on others.  There are people who want to make a difference in their community and others who think only of what's in it for me.  Regardless of who didn't do this or do that, the cemetery will be cared for, whether it's a half-dozen people or fifty.  More participation makes it easier but if that's not possible, so be it.  If you are interested in helping, whether it's your time or money the contact information is on this thread.

Now you've got it.....

                Definately heartless especially if you happened to have relatives there.

Insulting others really isn't the way to make yourself look better..

 

The obvious answer Paul got this am was "No thanks, not me."

 

 

If you're afraid of hard work, well, maintenance is not that hard.

 

If you're afraid of cemeteries, well, you must be watching too many scary movies - plus it's daytime!

 

If you could've showed up but didn't, well then, you're just plain heartless.

 

While I was there today I couldn't help but think of all the hard-working people back in the olden days.  I felt proud helping out today.  By the way, I claimed an area my family will mow/weed on a regular basis.  

 

I hope more people will step forward to give the Rumbarger Society & volunteers a break they so deserve.  Amazing what has already been done!  I can see how a few more helping hands could mean the world to them.  

 

What a beautiful view & it's so peaceful up there.  Make it an ongoing beautiful place with just a small piece of your time.  

 

 

 

Just plain heartless?? really?

Someones agenda is at least giving hope to the dream of keeping the wigwam alive even if its only  in memories. Some of us on here enjoy reading the wigwam stories and would welcome anyone who is trying to "maybe" get the place a 2nd chance.If we want to drive by and look who cares as long as no one is disrespecting or disobeying the signs.

It's private property posted "No Trespassing". On a dead end private driveway. You don't 'drive by'..You are trespassing...{breaking the law]

There is a Major McCreight Biography and Wigwam images at http://duboishistoricalsociety.com

 

I was to the Wigwam last Monday.  It is in really awful shape and marked no trespassing and its best to honor that sign

That's what I said months ago...Reality is not easy to accept, when you have an agenda...

It might be a good idea to clear up some wrong ideas here. The house is privately owned, as is the drive up to the property. It is in an extremely advanced state of disrepair, and decay. It is completely grown over with weeds and brush... The last time I was inside it, some years ago, there was a real danger of the floors falling through...It is posted "NO TRESPASSING", and is condemned as unsafe to enter...Sight seeing is not a good idea..

Every family who has a relative buried there should be contributing something to the upkeep.  An annual letter reporting ptogress and requesting support should be sent out.  We give the guy who mows our family cemetery a donation whenever we see him.  Everyone keeps up their own flowers.

Which, of course, brings us back around full circle to my origional post...With a cemetery this old, how many decendents are still around, and how far removed are they from the origional grave occupants? And how many are willing to donate money and labor to such an effort.. My guess....Zero to None...Expectations for anything more is wishful thinking..The 60+ year old dilemma concerning the cemetery is proof of that...

I know nothing of this particular cemetery, nor do I know anything about how any other cemetery works. Aren't they supposed to be kept up like the one coming into town from TL? I see the lawn being cut there all the time.

 

Like I said, I haven't had to deal with cemeteries yet so maybe there are different kinds that do not do the up keep. All the ones that I have been to where my grandparents and great-grandparents have been buried, are kept up by the workers.

 

What do you guys expect Foxfan to do? Just weed and cut the grass around his great-grandparents two graves?  :-/

You are refering to Morningside Cemetery. It is a beautifully kept and maintained cemetery. I don't know the details of the fund that makes it possible, but I am sure individuals could not do it by voluntary efforts alone...It is maintained by a  source that is secure for the operation of the cemetery, through investing the money, and careful spending by the trustees. Unlike more "modern" cemeteries, such as Lakelawn near Reynoldsville, monuments and headstones, are of course, the norm. This complicates the grass cutting and maintenance. Lakelawn doesn't permit markers that are above the grass height, which of course, makes cutting easy. We have many well tended cemeteries, such as Salem Cemetery, Beechwoods Cemetery, just to name a few..But Morningside, in my opinion, is the best example of a professionally maintained facility...

Back to the real point of this thread will anyone volunteer on the 9th to help for a godubois day clean-up or not? The local history teachers should think about having their classes help out and the kids could get their required community service done plus the cemetary would benefit. I know school is out now but, even for some future history class projects, upkeep and preserving of the cemetary could be part of it. In the meantime those willing to volunteer hopefully will come on the 9th. Foxfans comments are just the type of noncaring attitude that got this cemetary  in the mess it is today. All I can say to these comments is what goes around comes around, hope foxfan has a plot ready with a  cemetary caretaker already in place,or maybe even snakes and foxes will invade the plot when you are buried there and your living relatives won't care enough to clean it up, cause "it dosen't matter" right?

I reserve the right to have different priorities than you. I don't see why that bothers you so much...The fact that I voiced it? You go and do what you feel compelled to do, and don't fret and anguish about what I, or other people do, or don't do....A few posters here get bent out of shape when someone volunteers anything that they don't agree with...I'm speaking for myself. I don't care if you work on the cemetery, or not. If anyone shows up to help you, great. "It doesn't matter to me"?....Right...Get over it....