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    Default Graves near Deer Park Shelter?

    I am curious about the graves of George and Eva Gragg which are located near the Deer Park Shelter, South of Hot Springs. If anyone out there has any info. on this please share, I am interested in the history behind it.

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    Question Just a tad from Amazon, when I Googled.

    Includes a photo of the gravestone and two blurbs. For what it's worth...

    http://books.google.com/books?id=XRs...uKBDgW1ie9g_hM

    I have this book, as it turns out.

    Where is this gravestone? I missed it when I hiked through the area.

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    [I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35

    [url]www.MeetUp.com/NashvilleBackpacker[/url]

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    That looks like an outstanding book, when was it written? I'll now have to go to the book store today!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rain Man View Post
    Includes a photo of the gravestone and two blurbs. For what it's worth...

    http://books.google.com/books?id=XRs...uKBDgW1ie9g_hM

    I have this book, as it turns out.

    Where is this gravestone? I missed it when I hiked through the area.

    RainMan

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    Thanks for the info. The gravesite was just a short distance (maybe 50 yds.) north from the spur trail leading to Deer Park Shelter. They (there are two graves) were set back into a little clearing just off of the trail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by john gault View Post
    That looks like an outstanding book, when was it written? I'll now have to go to the book store today!
    2002. With due respect to the author, it's not a tightly-edited book. But it does compile some interesting things about some trail names and locations.

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    [I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35

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    Quote Originally Posted by HikerMan36 View Post
    Thanks for the info. The gravesite was just a short distance (maybe 50 yds.) north from the spur trail leading to Deer Park Shelter. They (there are two graves) were set back into a little clearing just off of the trail.
    That explains why we didn't see them. It was past dark and at the end of a long 16-mile day for my wife, when we hiked into Deer Park Shelter. Had I known, I would have gone back the next morning (before the short jaunt into Hot Springs) to take a gander and some photos.

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    [I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35

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    I came across these 2 graves today. I was surprised by a couple of things. The first was finding these 2 graves out in the middle of nowhere. The second is the inscription on Eva's headstone than said: "Absent Not Dead". Does anyone have any new info on this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by No Directions View Post
    I came across these 2 graves today. I was surprised by a couple of things. The first was finding these 2 graves out in the middle of nowhere. The second is the inscription on Eva's headstone than said: "Absent Not Dead". Does anyone have any new info on this?
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    The link that was posted above explains it. scroll down maybe an inch. its the caption to the headstone picture. explains what it means
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    I remember them and how I briefly wondered why they had never been brought to my attention previously. You know though how the feet keep a-moving in spite of what the mind wonders. I was on my way to Hot Springs on what was a loooong day. I think my impression was that the gravestones belonged to people who had homesteaded on that land years and years ago.
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    Could be a reference to beliefs similar to those reflected in this poem:

    Do not stand at my grave and weep
    I am not there. I do not sleep.
    I am a thousand winds that blow.
    I am the diamond glints on snow.
    I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
    I am the gentle autumn rain.
    When you awaken in the morning's hush
    I am the swift uplifting rush
    Of quiet birds in circled flight.
    I am the soft stars that shine at night.
    Do not stand at my grave and cry;
    I am not there. I did not die.

    ---Mary Elizabeth Frye
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    Quote Originally Posted by Berry Belle View Post
    Could be a reference to beliefs similar to those reflected in this poem:

    Do not stand at my grave and weep
    I am not there. I do not sleep.
    I am a thousand winds that blow.
    I am the diamond glints on snow.
    I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
    I am the gentle autumn rain.
    When you awaken in the morning's hush
    I am the swift uplifting rush
    Of quiet birds in circled flight.
    I am the soft stars that shine at night.
    Do not stand at my grave and cry;
    I am not there. I did not die.

    ---Mary Elizabeth Frye
    In victorian times from latter 1800s thru early 1900s it was very common to inscribe headstones with epitahs implying the deceased was not really dead. Sometimes referring to them as "only sleeping" or "still with us" in some way.

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