One of the things that struck me about the Old Carlisle Cemetery was the sheer number of Revolutionary War veterans. Leaving aside the cemetery’s most famous resident who participated in the American Revolution, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, there are over 50 veterans of the conflict buried here.
A monument erected by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution lists the veterans “located and verified” in the cemetery.
I was just awed by this fact. I guess this is one of the ways that I am turning into a midwesterner. In this part of the midwest, if a cemetery has even one Revolutionary War veteran, it’s notable. I think the most I’ve seen in one cemetery in northeastern Ohio is five.
A number of the stones denoted with the Revolutionary War marker aren’t really readable or are even broken…
…but others are quite legible after all this time.
One even had a new stone placed next to the old.
I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do some further research on at least some of these soldiers.
A Grave Concern 
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