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Cemeteries of Redstone Arsenal Process And Summary, page 5
•• c-it a-Jt .'0 Thursday, died Sept. 4, 1908. With others of their family they lie today, while the earth jumps around them and buildings arc raised and missiles built. The stones say they are children, but they would all bo grey-haired i now. T' ?di ★ * * 'si One graveyard is called the ^Jncw Market Olive Church Ceme-re'tcry. In it one stone dates back e 'to 1327. lr, the Burton Cemetery !a death is i ecorded for 1810. ne he in •e-ei-vn he Is nd nd ds e. be tie- the en-in itc-ion On one stone is listed the names of John Simpson, Margaret A. Simpson. Marion E. Simpson, and Arthur M. Simpson. John's wife was born Aug. 9, 1816, died Aug. 31.1874. Did she drcam that some! of the world's smartest men would, someday walk in their backyard! ??" in the years ahead after her! country had fought three big J wars? More than a hundred Christmases ago ??" on Dec. 25, 1844 j died Lucy Clark who was born! Nov. 29, in the last decade of the! 1700's, but the last digit is worn! off the stone. And another Christ-j mas nears and the ground above; her is the same, but the town '.hat! 1 she once know has changed, and; the green fields have grown in importance. 1 A few yards from the Ordnance Guided Missile School tery, the Rawlings and Lanier Cemetery, the Jacobs Cemetery, Jordan, Timmons . . otl Y< th w: Pt th a se re in jc P< s.' o ■ fl>l OILS MIC al anti-ville lie am- where troops from all over the world conic to train and learn about missiles, a graveyard holds a atone of a person who died March 7, I860. This person was born in 1773, hut there Is no name io say who he or she Was. Perhaps it was a school teacher, or an outstanding science slu-drnt or a farmer. And near tho intersection of Mills and Martin Roads, one of (he streets which stays the busiest with military and civilian traffic lies the body of a soldier, Cpl. Joseph Beasley. Co. C, 12 USCI. No dates arc on his headstone. Thero arc others ... an old slave graveyard, the Fonnil Come- . many! >, some white.! . . drive past I t the schools! ng devices, the ing cattle, see ??"symbols of you will also es, behind the re fences, and ie smaller ob-of the ground. :e the missiles, now past; recdead. 1 Elks members and t Sundoy for a wondei food for your selecti family. ADULT! ELI _c 5 - (3273)