When you get my age and you want to visit your friends, chances are you will wind up going to the cemetery. We have three in this area and sometimes I will walk around and stop at different tombstones.

In Rose Hill in the old section there are two family plots. I go to my granddaddy's. When I was a boy I would follow my granddaddy and my brother Mickey and we would get a rake and yard broom to take with us. We would make the walk from our house to granddaddy's plat; in those days most of the plats were marked off. Granddaddy had someone pour a foundation and put a row of cement blocks around his plat. Granddaddy then hired someone to fill this area with white sand. It was our job to pull any weeds and carefully sweep the sand being careful to keep the grave slabs clean.