Where Are They Buried?

[john1082]

Mission complete

Details to follow

[docroc67]

Originally Posted by john1082

Mission complete

Details to follow

Brother John,

I cannot wait to see and read about what you found!

I have scheduled an article about Founder Cole for the December issue of the C&C. Your "Expedition" has to be a part of it! Thank you for your efforts in finding his burial site.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
Zeta-Upsilon Zeta

[john1082]

Now that I have returned home and resized the pictures I wanted to share a few with you. There are links to several shots. Please feel free to view, but contact me before you link to them.

The first is a look up the road towards the cemetery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1440540...ool-lambdachi/

Now the gate:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1440540...ool-lambdachi/

A look around:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1440540...ool-lambdachi/

Here he is, this is the west side of his headstone:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1440540...ool-lambdachi/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1440540...ool-lambdachi/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1440540...ool-lambdachi/

Here is the east side / backside of his headstone. I have pulled the plants back so that you can see the inscription:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1440540...ool-lambdachi/

I did not make any rubbings of the headstone because, as you can well see, there are plants and lichen growing on the stone and it wouldn’t be right to disturb them.

I have decided to omit directions to the cemetery and any photograph of the access road. I do this after some degree of thought. As I surmised, this is a family cemetery, full of Hortons and Wheelers and Coles. Although apparently maintained by the village of Rehoboth, it is a historic cemetery and very small, perhaps one acre or so. The road up to the cemetery is not paved and appears very fragile. Although the fence is low, the gates are locked; the stone wall has loose stones. I don’t think that the cemetery could handle a group of visitors - there is no parking lot and there are neighbors.

If a group wanted to go out I would suggest contacting the folks on the Rehoboth town council and sharing the idea with them. They may have some concerns regarding the number of visitors. I’m not trying to prevent anyone from going and privately I’ll share the information, but the place just isn’t set up for a massive number of visitors.

I have burned all of the images onto a CD

[GammaZeta]

May I suggest John that you start a whole new thread with your results?

Maybe get a Q and A going?

[JonoBN41]

John,

Wonderful job! You did some great detective work to find the right place. Now...be honest... did you get just a little bit of a chill when your eyes first settled on the name "Warren", and you knew you had found it?

ZAX,
Jono

[john1082]

Not a chill, rather, it felt like being a high school football player, a center, who recovers a fumble and waddles 30 yards for a winning TD.

[Ottor 246]

Anybody else surprised?

This is not what I expected when I read "family estate." In addition to looking much different from 1968 vintage headstones in my area, it looks sort of shabby and forlorn. How long do you think it had been since anyone visited Brother Cole's grave?

Ottor