![]() ![]() Cemeteries provide direct and often poignant links to our story, and no other section of a town more accurately records the legacy of its citizenry.” As Bill Harvey observes in his 2003 book, Texas Cemeteries, “A casual walk through a cemetery, any cemetery, provides a subtle sense of place and time…. We feel, perhaps, the most powerful connection to the past at the burial places of our ancestors. ![]() But I’d be preachin’ to the choir if I pointed out to you what a stirring experience it can be to visit a graveyard prior to one’s own appointment with the everlasting. Not that any of us are all that anxious to get there, of course. each of us, someday, will take that long last ride to rest in the fields of those who have gone before…. Someday, each of us will lay our worldly burden down.
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