Celtic cross

Good to know.... thanks.

It's worth noting that my sweetheart's great great grandfather, Anthony Hosking Odgers, was a miner who died in a mine accident in Hibernia, N.J., in 1880, and was among a couple dozen miners unceremoniously interred in a marker-less potter's field on a margin of the cemetery at the First Presbyterian Church of Rockaway, N.J. Remarkably, a document was discovered, by the current church sexton, that indicated exactly where each miner was buried. It's a sobering spot to visit and points out the disregard miners and their families faced, due to their relatively low socio-economic status. You've gotten me thinking about a way in which I might be able to memorialize them with some sort of marker. Thanks for your posts!

Please do consider memorializing these miners. Wonderful that you have documentation! I hope that my efforts regarding the Caribou Cemetery will inspire you and others. My colleagues and I are literally waiting for snow to melt (cemetery at 10,000 feet), but we have partnered with a local historical society so that donations are tax-deductible. And, I have also created our website, cariboucemetery.com -- all to create awareness. You can certainly do the same in your community. In your case, you could even place individual markers, but you could also create one large interpretive sign with a "map" to show (and identify) the graves. If, through the CAHS I start a Special Interest Group on Cornish (and predominately Cornish) cemeteries, your cemetery should be included.

I wonder how many others we can find?