Under weed patch, hidden history
Wed, 11/22/2017 - 9:51am
By:
Maren Holst
There is a surprise in your country driving west of Lake City, very near the junction of County Roads 78 and 82.
It may have been a mystery to you as you noticed a tall weed patch out in a soybean field nearly a half acre in size. A closer look would have disclosed burdock, nettles, prickly vines, and other wild plants in a jungle mass.
Thanks to nine people, a pioneer cemetery is revealed again. The oldest known burial is 1860: a three-year-old named Henry C. Roberts. Many buried at this early settlers cemetery were children.