Virtual Tour of Plonk Family Cemetery Surroundings

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• Plunk home place
  • Jacob Plunk II and Christina Kiser home place location
• Cemetery condition Sept 2006
  • view from road, cemetery under tallest trees
  • cemetery overview, summer
  • cemetery overview, summer
  • cemetery overview, summer
  • periwinkle groundcover, summer
  • Joseph Plunk, age 100, gravestone
  • Barbara Rudisill Plunk, age 69, gravestone
  • Michael Columbus Plonk, age 26, gravestone
  • Indian Creek, summer
  • Indian Creek, summer
  • old roadbed, possible colonial era
  • enbankment cut, possible Indian Creek ford
  • bridge over small branch, once for heavy wagons, now partially washed away
  • cemetery overview, autumn
  • Susan Hauss gravestone
  • Fanny Tutherow, age 24, gravestone, with German sunburst and quarter sunburst icons
  • stone circle, flower bed?
• Cemetery condition Autumn 2006
  • Indian Creek, autumn
  • Philip Plonk, age 36, gravestone, colonel in Confederate Home Guard, died during Civil War
  • Barbara Hauss, age 3, gravestone
• Cemetery condition Winter 2006, new bronze plaque
  • cemetery overview, winter
  • bronze plaque on stone marker, installed December 2006
  • bronze plaque on stone marker
  • David Tutherow, age 4, gravestone
  • Philip Plonk, age 36, gravestone
  • knoll as viewed from Indian Creek, cemetery is on top of knoll
  • Indian Creek, winter
  • stone circle, flower bed?
  • row of seven coresponding headstone and footstone pairs, all unmarked, includes graves of Jacob Plunk II and Christina Kiser
• Cemetery condition Spring 2007
  • cemetery overview, spring
  • periwinkle blossoms, spring
  • Barbara A. S. E. Hauss, age 3, and Francis K. Hauss, age 3, gravestones
  • Henry Shell, age 15 months, gravestone
  • Nancy C. Heafner, age 16, gravestone
  • Susan Hauss gravestone
  • Indian Pink wildflower
• Gravestones stood up 2008-2009
  • Bill Beam, President of Lincoln County Historical Association
  • Henry Shell, age 15 months
  • Susan Hauss
  • Barbara Hauss, age 3
  • Barbara Rudisill Plunk, age 69
  • Michael Columbus Plonk, age 26
  • David Tutherow, age 4
  • Joseph Plunk, age 100
  • Francis Hauss
  • Philip Plonk, age 36, top missing
  • Philip Plonk, age 36, original view, Masonic symbol

The Lincoln County Historical Association and Lincoln County Historical Properties Commission also helped restore and preserve the Ramsour-Reinhardt Cemetery. Here are some results from that project.

• Ramsour-Reinhardt Cemetery roadside marker
• Jacob Ramsour gravestone, SAR marker
• Ramsour-Reinhardt Cemetery overview

Nearby train wreck, Dec 1880

• Train crossing modern tressel at site of 22 December 1880 train wreck, 250 yards from cemetery

More information is on the Plonk Family Cemetery Visitor's Guide.