by Leslie Sholly | Apr 11, 2017 | Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Pleasant Forest Cemetery is a hard one to miss. It’s enormous, for one thing, and it’s on a well-traveled road. I’ve driven by it many times and it’s been on my list to visit for awhile. Occasionally my graveyard trips are serendipitous and...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 2, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
What better day than the Feast of All Souls to write about a cemetery? I may seem a little strange the rest of the year but today I am on topic and I have a beautiful graveyard to write about. You may remember that my last graveyard story was very sad, about a...
by Leslie Sholly | Sep 14, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
Now, maybe you are thinking that’s a strange title. Because shouldn’t visiting cemeteries make you sad? Well, if they all made me this sad I’d stop visiting them. Of course I feel sorrowful when I see baby graves. Occasionally poor maintenance...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 5, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
If you live in West Knoxville and like shortcuts, you’ve driven past it hundreds of time–this old, old graveyard not quite at the corner of Westland and Ebenezer, sitting right in front of the driveway to the Maple Grove Inn. Nameless, signless,...
by Leslie Sholly | May 31, 2015 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville
You know by now some of the reasons I like to visit graveyards: the beauty, the history, the sense of peace I find there. Well, sadly, my most recent cemetery visit left me feeling not enlightened and peaceful but ENRAGED. I should have been more prepared, since I...