From Diana Goodes:
"Hi Linda...yes, it was totally buried. My husband just started poking around the ground next to James Glendenning's headstone and suddenly "hit something." It was the first cemetery we had ever visited that wasn't maintained, and we were a bit surprised. Not sure uncovering it was the right thing to do, but gosh, we were so excited!! And at least we have a memorial picture of it now. If I could only go back there and clean the whole cemetery!! Unfortunately, we live in California. We were flying to GA for a visit and I just kind'a "detoured" us through Ohio....LOL. James and Mary are my husband's 3rd great-grandparents."
"Hi Linda...yes, it was totally buried. My husband just started poking around the ground next to James Glendenning's headstone and suddenly "hit something." It was the first cemetery we had ever visited that wasn't maintained, and we were a bit surprised. Not sure uncovering it was the right thing to do, but gosh, we were so excited!! And at least we have a memorial picture of it now. If I could only go back there and clean the whole cemetery!! Unfortunately, we live in California. We were flying to GA for a visit and I just kind'a "detoured" us through Ohio....LOL. James and Mary are my husband's 3rd great-grandparents."
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Three photographs below of the gravestone Diana Goodes and her husband uncovered at the Black Cemetery are posted with her permission.
Click on the title to view the "Find A Grave" memorial for Mary D. VanHorn Glendening.
There are 13 Glendening memorials at the Black Cemetery on "Find A Grave". Why not take a moment to view them and learn more about this early Champaign County, Ohio pioneer family?
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Extending my sincere thank you to Diana and her husband for taking those extra steps that led to the discovery of a hidden and almost forgotten gravesite that is truly forgotten no more.
