The Spokesrider

(August 29, continued)  This sign was about five miles from my photo stop on Martindale Creek.   I was thinking there might be an old cemetery along the creek down near this place on Germantown Road, which might be the cemetery where Charles Morgan and the Beesly boys had been buried.    A cemetery is indicated [...]

(August 29, continued)   On Jacksonburg Road, I stopped to look back at John Martindale’s 160-acre land entry, still looking for a likely place for a fort to have been located.   Like I’ve said, at that time it somehow didn’t occur to me that it would have been located way back in the distance where one [...]

(August 29, continued)  The church building itself is on the south side of the cemetery.    Martindale Creek is on the right, outside of the photo.  In this photo, if you look through the picnic shelter,  you can see some of the farm buildings on what may have been the location of the John Martindale farm [...]

(August 29, continued) The main reason for my first visit to the Salem Baptist cemetery was to look for the graves of John and Mary Martindale, parents of  Elijah.   I don’t even know for sure that they ended their days near here, but where better to look than along the stream that bears the family [...]

(August 29, continued.) Every cemetery should have a sign like this. I should have included this photo in yesterday’s post, as it was taken at the same stop where I took a photo of the sign pointing to the Salem Primitive Baptist Church. Salem Church Road (the road in the photo) is where the state [...]

(August 28, continued)   This is the bridge over the stream I had been looking for — Martindale Creek.   Elijah’s father had bought a quarter-section of government land on the far side of the creek.   I had looked over that quarter-section from two sides, north and west, trying to identify a likely place for a War [...]

(August 29, continued) At first I was going to omit this photo from the blog on the grounds that it was a case of mistaken identity.  On August 29 I had wanted to be sure to get a photo of Martindale Creek when I crossed it, especially because I was nearing the place where John [...]