. . . and named, apparently, for the Clarissa H. (an aunt?) who had died just a year earlier. (See previous frame.) This is the Blackstock family cemetery, surviving in an industrial development area in rural Buncombe County near an interstate highway. The fate of old family cemeteries in this country rests almost entirely with interested parties, despite some apparently protective laws. This family cares more than most, although work is needed here--several stones have fallen.
Made sepia with slight vignette.
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