A FORGOTTEN GRAVEYARD
Pg. 139
The salt
furnaces were built in the valley from James A. Lackey's farm
up to the infirmary, Pieces of the old salt kettles used at
the furnace on Lackey's farm were plowed up in the spring of
1900. The salt boilers at the upper furnaces found it
inconvenient to bring their dead to the "Old Graveyard," and they
began to bury in a spot near Smith's lane, where it crosses
the railroad, on land now owned by W. H. and M. K. Steele.
There are forty to fifty graves at this place, but none of them are
marked. Peter Bunn, who is now in his eightieth year,
says that two of his infant brothers and another little boy named
Walden were buried there. Mrs. Sophia Mitchell
remembers that she attended the burial of a little daughter of
John Radcliff at this place, when she was a mere child, about
seventy years ago.
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