http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/22 medieval and modern genealogy, memory and history — part of nltaylor.net Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/22/comment-page-1#comment-26974 a genealogist’s sketchbook › serendipity in a basement evidence-room Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:34:43 +0000 http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/?p=22#comment-26974 [...] of mine settled in the same place 300 years ago! My next task is to locate his gravestone, in the Newman Cemetery where I walked my dog every day for years, without an [...]

]]> http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/22/comment-page-1#comment-23096 a genealogist’s sketchbook › the Allins in the news Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:19:25 +0000 http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/?p=22#comment-23096 [...] The dramatic setting puts Scipio at the front and center of the graveyard, with all the white folks clustered away at the back, between trees. The graveyard originally had another orientation: Bay Spring Avenue itself wasn’t laid out until October of 1802 (in the division of Thomas Allin’s farmland), and the side street, Adams Ave., didn’t exist till long after. The resting place of the people of color, meant to be something apart, is now in the place of honor, as the graves are approached past Scipio’s lone sentinel stone. Many area graveyards embed subtle stories of the changing place of people of color in the community. Some time ago I posted on this in a graveyard near our current home in Rumford, with the beautiful graves of Sherrey and Anna. [...]

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