So, I need your help. I went to visit my brother in Arkansas this past weekend and we did a little ghost hunting around where he lives in Kingston, Arkansas. We came across the Mc Broom Cemetery that sits up on a hill all by itself.
In all the years of investigating cemeteries, I have not ever ran across one like this. It had several grave markers that were shaped like coffins. Some little, some big, facing all different directions. The earliest settlers had their feet pointing toward the east and the head of the coffin toward the west, ready to rise up and face the "new day" (the sun) when "the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised" or when Christ would appear and they would be reborn. So, I really don't understand the way these people were laid to rest. hhuummm I really feel the coffin markers are the actual size of the casket that was laid to rest beneath them because the baby's were very small and the adults larger.
I am very curious about these "coffin" shaped tombstones. The best I can find out is that back in the 1700's the stone coffin marker was set on top of the actual casket. I wish I could read the dates on the tombstones, but they had all eroded over time. I just think it is odd that I have been in some really old cemeteries and NONE of them had these kind of tombstones.
If you know anything about these coffin shaped tombstones I would LOVE to know about them. I posted several pics of this really "cool" cemetery.
So, what do you think? Aren't these really "creepy"? You should see them at night! lol
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