StaticCling
10-30-2013, 4:57pm
A bit long winded, but thought I would share. Oddball's thread inspired me to post these pics.
We went to Scatter my Grandfathers ashes in the Gasconade River in Osage County Missouri. He grew up there. My family had originally Homesteaded a farm in the area at the tail end of the 18th Century or early 19th Century. The property was in our family until 1978 or thereabouts, when my Great Grandfather passed away.
So, we decided to go and check our old property. My dad has many memories as a child growing up here during the summers. It's all fenced off now, and the current owner has a lot of cattle that graze on the property. The roads are public, but they aren't paved (gravel). As we were checking things out a big ass truck was hauling butt down the gravel road. Turns out he was the current owner of the property. He was gracious enough to open the fences and allow us on it. I almost cried. We spent several hours hiking around and checking out the land that we owned for practically 200 years :)
The cool part was, we were able to scatter my Grandfathers ashes on the bank of the river on the property that once belonged to US. :)
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zps5a00b428.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zpsc19c9c99.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zpscd31c140.jpg
This was the old house site. According to my dad, my Great Grandfather went into town to get drunk, and when he came back the house had burned down. The house had no indoor plumbing and didn't have electricity until the 1960's. Heat was provided by a wood burning stove, which was probably the culprit of the fire...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zpsfe4a4408.jpg
We went to Scatter my Grandfathers ashes in the Gasconade River in Osage County Missouri. He grew up there. My family had originally Homesteaded a farm in the area at the tail end of the 18th Century or early 19th Century. The property was in our family until 1978 or thereabouts, when my Great Grandfather passed away.
So, we decided to go and check our old property. My dad has many memories as a child growing up here during the summers. It's all fenced off now, and the current owner has a lot of cattle that graze on the property. The roads are public, but they aren't paved (gravel). As we were checking things out a big ass truck was hauling butt down the gravel road. Turns out he was the current owner of the property. He was gracious enough to open the fences and allow us on it. I almost cried. We spent several hours hiking around and checking out the land that we owned for practically 200 years :)
The cool part was, we were able to scatter my Grandfathers ashes on the bank of the river on the property that once belonged to US. :)
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zps5a00b428.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zpsc19c9c99.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zpscd31c140.jpg
This was the old house site. According to my dad, my Great Grandfather went into town to get drunk, and when he came back the house had burned down. The house had no indoor plumbing and didn't have electricity until the 1960's. Heat was provided by a wood burning stove, which was probably the culprit of the fire...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d186/Air1070/photo_zpsfe4a4408.jpg