Welcome! We are Don and Lindsey of Franklin, Tennessee, lifelong history enthusiasts, genealogists, and cemetery preservation advocates. Together, we are committed to honoring those who came before us through careful research, documentation, photography, and the preservation of cemeteries and family histories. We typically only manage memorials of close relatives and direct ancestors. Occasionally, memorials of distant kin are transferred to us from other managers along with our request for a closer relation. We are more than happy to transfer memorials in our care to closer relatives upon request.

Our areas of interest include the families and descendants of the surnames Warden, Hancock, Peden, Hillman, Francis, Trondsen, Bradford, Smith, Robinson, Rainey, and Johnson, with roots spanning Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri, and beyond. Lindsey has a special research interest in families of Williamson County, Tennessee's First District, where generations of her family made their lives beginning in the early 1800s; she is a proud 9th generation Williamson Countian.

Don's Grandparents:

• Don Warden
• Gene Trondsen and Betty Hillman Trondsen
• Great-grandparents through a living grandmother are Claude Smith and Ollie Robinson Smith.

Lindsey's Grandparents:

• John Hancock
• John Francis and Betty Peden Francis
• Great-grandparents through a living grandmother are Jody Rainey and Lucille Johnson Rainey.

We believe that every life has a story worth remembering and that cemeteries are outdoor archives connecting us to the people whose sacrifices, struggles, and triumphs shaped our families and communities. Whether documenting headstones, preserving local history, or piecing together the stories behind old records and family traditions, we strive to ensure that future generations will know where they came from.

We like to collaborate with fellow researchers and descendants and welcome corrections, additions, and shared memories. Together, we can preserve our families' legacies one story, one photograph, and one memorial at a time.

"We are all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us."

— Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas