Southern Graves

Myrtle's daughter-in-law & grandson. Tenant farming is an agricultural system in which farmers rent land from owners for a share of the crops (crop rent) or cash payment (cash rent).  This essentially replaced the slave system dominant in the South prior to the Civil War.  According to the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza, Arkansas, "Terms of contracts [for tenant farmers] varied, dependent on whether the laborer owned any equipment or purchased his own seed and supplies. Crop rent contracts generally required that one-fourth to one-third of the crop be paid to the landlord. Sharecroppers, at the lowest rung of tenant farming, lacked equipment and capital, which had to be provided by landlords. Thus, they received a smaller percentage of crops, typically 50%." Tenant farming, especially for sharecroppers, was a hard way to make a living.  Constant, back breaking work was required to just get by.  Then the stock market crashed in 1929, and crop pric...

More photos from Hillcrest Cemetery (aka Reynolds City Cemetery) in Taylor County, Georgia added to Flickr. I'm now up to over 40! View photostream.

Not a whole lot, but some is better than none! --> Added several more photos from Hillcrest Cemetery (aka Reynolds City Cemetery); Taylor County, Georgia to Flickr. View photostream.

Uploaded photos from Hillcrest Cemetery in Reynolds, Georgia to Flickr. A few of them tie into my personal family history. View photostream.

Recent uploads include photos from Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia; photos from our trip to Tennessee in 2006; and photos from the Cove Baptist Church Cemetery in Meriwether County, Georgia. I also added some photos from my personal family history. View photostream.

A portion of the Cove Baptist Church Cemetery is now online at the Southern Graves site . Transcriptions and photos can be found concerning individuals with the BROWN surname. I've also uploaded this information to FindAGrave and Flickr .

I actually created an account at flickr some time ago, and I am finally starting to use it. I am not a professional photographer by any stretch of the imagination, but every now and again I get a good shot or two. Those occasions might be shared with a few groups I've joined. Plus, I hope this is a good application for keeping my cemetery photos organized. I'm only using the free version, for now. We'll see how it goes. My first few uploads are photos from the Russellville Baptist Church and Cemetery (link goes to blog post about my trip). I added this photo to the Southern Cemeteries group . So! If you're on flickr and want to find me, I'm southerngraves .