Is there possibly a cemetery nearby the old farm house where the family existed years ago?
The answer is probably yes. Find the one main old home location where the parents of your lineage in that area lived, and there may be an old cemetery there (Unless there is a church nearby, usually built or paid for in part by the main family and thereby used as the family and others cemetery). Where would the cemetery be? Look for the lonely pine or pines in the middle of the clearing or wooded area, usually placed to mark the grave sites, or picked out and left there while the land was originally cleared and looked like a nice resting place for them (and family) later. Remember, those families were pretty practical in their lifestyle and living and did things using what you and I would now days call common sense, so use some while looking around for that burial place. If no trees stick out as evident, another place would be a small fenced in area that would not have any signs as animal pens, maybe some small pointed or flat stones around the edge or center standing up instead of lyi
