With any questions on Cemetery Email Steve. is not taking emails at this time. Sorry & Thanks!!!

Contributions email Foxie.

Steve's survey, photos, & notes of this cemetery:

Tazewell County--Cincinnati Twp, plat Section #13.
Rankin Cemetery is mowed with many stones lying flat on the ground. Roughly7 half of the stones are white limestone and in very weathered conditions making reading of them almost unreadable.
Thirteen of them are unreadable.
No visible signs of attempt to restore broken stones or flag unmarked graves. At least 30 stones at angles to graves - in progress of sinking into the grave. An additional 12 - 15 stones are toppled with several more in process. See Photo #080.
While mowed, there has been no attempts to trim around stones. There is a a large pile of brush & field waste - natural - in back of the cemetery; approximately eighteen feet in diameter. Stones in high brush & in fence rows.
Overall Status: Partial Neglect --- Guarded!!!!
                                                                                                                                          

This tombstone photos are copy write by Steve Slaughter. You have to have his permission to download to your computer. I know nothing of this cemetery. If you know of anyone else that might be buried here be sure and let Steve & Foxie know. Thanks.

All tombstone photos  below are most in regular size.  I resized a few for them fit here and since there were not really that many of them put them all on a little bigger than normal. Enjoy! & Thanks!

Rawley Stitt DooLittle

May 04, 1864

Magdalena

Died 08 Oct 184?

Photo above I think Steve was talking about this happens when they go around it too close with a riding mower.

B. J. Montgomery 1799-1880

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