I spent most of my weekend on the road. Or at least it felt like it. Here's my general route, showing the towns I stopped in. Even in the final destination towns, in Tennessee, most of my activity was observing from my car, so, that's a lot of driving.
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Patoka and Sandoval were way off the beaten path, so to speak, at least compared to what I'm used to. I did find some expected and unexpected relatives in their final resting places at the Patoka Cemetery.
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| Civil War Soldiers' Monument at Patoka Cemetery |
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Sandoval Cemetery was a little larger and, even though I allowed more time to wander aimlessly through it, I wasn't going to spend all day there. Unfortunately, I left without finding any ancestors. Some of these small cemeteries are big enough to require hours to go down every row but still too small to have a searchable website or an office or some place you can look up records of where specific plots are.
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| Monument to all veterans of the Sandoval area |
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In Tennessee I did stop the car a few times, at sites such as the Cold Springs schoolhouse in Portland and Trousdale Place in Gallatin.
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| Cold Springs, a one room schoolhouse now planted in Portland |
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| Monument to Confederate Soldiers in front of Trousdale Place |
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