The Big Sandy Mountaineer -

Old cemeteries can tell a huge amount of history and are becoming more popular all the time to find out just who lived in what age and in many cases how they died as well.

The cemetery at Hungry Hollow just east of Clear Creek is choked with lilacs and among those lilacs are names of children who died of influenza, and old timers who died after one might think they should.

The cemeteries in Zortman and Landusky, one choked out with iris, the other in an old growth forest tell many stories.

At the Zortman cemetery are buried many members of the Whitcomb family. They partially owned the...