Under weed patch, hidden history

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.

 


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