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One of the oldest cemeteries in Pinellas County

Kids can be pretty hard to figure.

Take my granddaughter, Caitlyn.  She is eight years old and in the second grade. Now, you’d think a young girl like that would have plenty of fears — the dark, or things that go bump in the night.

Caitlyn reads the inscription on a gravestone

So where do you think she’s been pestering us to take her?  To a cemetery.

We haven’t really been able to figure out where this cemetery thing came from, but she’s really fascinated. So this past weekend her grandfather decided to take her on a field trip.

Since I had written recently about Curlew Methodist Church, that’s where they went — Curlew Methodist has one of the oldest graveyards around here, and there are quite a few gravestones that date back to the 1880s.

Caitlyn loved it.  She enjoyed reading all the inscriptions, and she liked learning about the people who were buried there.  She decided that the Jones family must have been pretty big around here, because so many of them had headstones in the cemetery. And she liked reciting some of the short poems she found on some of the stones.

She wasn’t scared at all.

“The ghosts are only around at night, anyway,” she said.

Caitlyn said she was going to tell all about her cemetery adventure at the next Show and Tell at her school.

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1. Arvis Jones , Cail said at July 11th, 2011 at 2:50 pm

   Hi, Caitlyn,
   Your very right about there being so many Jones’s there, in the 1800’s even my Great Grandmother & G.G. Pa lived there And they had 10 Jones children, and my Grandma and Grandpa had 12 Jones kids. So that was a start on the many many Jones’s in Dunedin’s part of Florida they came there from, What was back then in the mid. 1800’s Hernando county, now Pasco co. I was born in 1940 in Lacoochee and we all stayed near there till in the 1960. When we went out to make a living, I still live in Fl. only now in the North part
   I enjoyd reading of your field trip and a too enjoy reading headstones. Like in Townsends Cem, in Spring lake fl. where most of my Jones familys from Dune

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