Between his various marriages I used to go exploring with my oldest brother- we were both long grown up but we had good times together checking out mountain roads and gold mining claims and cemeteries.

In eastern Oregon there are many ghost towns gone to dust and outside town many, many homesteads long abandoned, most of them for lack of available water, I think. Many of those long dead farms with their tumble down houses crumbling into the earth had a small family cemetery out back. Most of them had falling down fences and the weeds were knee high and growing.   If I remember correctly the largest cemetery we found had just 8 burial sites. Most of them no longer had names on them - if they ever did - but there were a number of small boards all tumbled 'round about.