This is the second to last post from the amy goes west road trip... in Kentucky we paused for a little while to see Daniel Boone's Grave. Now Defiance, Missouri also claims to have Daniel Boone's Grave, but apparently he was dug up at some point and re-interned here. It was a huge cemetery and fun to mosey around and explore.
Confession: I love cemeteries. It's the last thing that we leave here on earth and even that will deterioate and crumble given enough time. But for a while, it is a record of history, a place to remember those who have lived and loved and laughed before us.
I did walk a little ways a way from Daniel Boone's rather large memorial to a circle of tombstones on a neighboring hill. Turns out it was a ring of confederate graves. I sat in the middle of it just reflecting on how deep the blood of the civil war ran and how many lives were lost in defense of each side's belief.
There was a large sign in the middle asking that the graves and the boys be left in peace since they fought for what they believed in and now could no longer fight, or carry weapons, or cause any harm.
We did find some Coxes in the midst of all the headstones, and I just so happen to have found my sister's name complete with middle initial. My smile is not to imply anything but just in excitement over my find.
This is the only cemetery we went to, although we did really want to go to Colonel Saunder's grave....but it closed at 4 and we didn't roll up into Kentucky until well after five.... maybe next time?
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