A visit to an old family cemetery...

It was just yesterday that I took a trip up to an old cemetary. Vaughn Cemetary as us locals call it, was established between 1834 and 1848 when the first interment took place there. In this graveyard, you'll see an obelisk like gravestone of a Virgina born man by the name of Thomas Cooper. He came down with Andrew Jackson to Pensacola, and in 1834, established a community that was known at the time as Durant's Bluff and is known today as Molino. From what I've read, Mr. Cooper constructed a sawmill, right off the Escambia River which is less than a mile from the location of this old graveyard. I visited that site with members of a local  a historical  society when they got an invitation for a tour from a archeology team to  team to do so. Mr. Cooper also built a grist mill on a stream known today as Wilder's Branch, which just happens to be an estimated 50 yards from here. I wouldn't mind finding remnants to that old grist mill though. Anyway, this old cemetary is primarily in the woods, and it has family ancestors of mine buried there, so I went there to check on it. The cemetary​ covers a large wooded area that sits on two and a half acres of land which surrounds the walled portion of the cemetary. There are also stones outside the walled area that are visible in no organized pattern throughout the woods. Walking around, you can see symbols on the headstones of lambs, books, drapes, flowers, and crosses. This cemetary could use a good clean up. Inside the wall, could use some weed pulling and raking. The outside portion needs more attention though. Walking further back into the woods, you'll see gravestones and slabs hidden throughout the overgrowth. Head stones covered behind bushes and such, grave slabs covered in leaves to which make them unseen, and it even appears as their not even there at all. Other graves are only marked with a stack of bricks, in other areas, some of the graves aren't marked at all assumed by sunken in spots. The cemetery is located in a secluded area, at the end of a narrow pathway through the woods, that happens to be 50 yards till you come upon the old wall. Nearby, you can spot a swampy area just below a hill, right down where you can see the railroad line and a train trestle that crosses over the marshes in the distance.