I recorded the names and photographed the stones in a small, grown-over pioneer graveyard close to where I once had a little farm.
The landholder whose farmland surrounded the site did his best to keep visitors out. The little access road was plowed over. Not long after I took the "census" I went back; several of the stones had disappeared.
One can perform a service for genealogists by collecting the information from these sites; many have been lost.