Nash County all of my life! A wonderful Home Station! U S Army Veteran! God is Good!

Attention to those visiting and photographing in cemeteries: Leave your camera home and use your smart phone if you have one, after downloading the Findagrave App. Take grave pictures thru the app. If you're taking multiple pictures, once on the cemetery landing page, click on "add grave photo". The photos will download to the web. The memorials can then be created on a pc or laptop. (transcribe) If the cemetery has a gps location, then the memorials will also get a gps location. This enables future users to find the grave in the cemetery. It has been promoted for several years, but those using cameras haven't bought into it yet. The system works! Try it! Regardless, thanks to everyone making this Adventure Grow!

p s Suggestion, locate and always use an American grave marker flag when taking a picture of a military marker. It warms the hearts of those that view the memorials, especially a fellow Veteran.

Thanks to all the contributors that follow and add to the memorials through edits. My passion is photographing the cemeteries and then working on the memorials. It is obvious that there are more memorials that I can maintain without the help of others. I accept most edits without question, but do review before doing so. I am a "coma/period delete" kind of person.

The pictures I post on Findagrave are available to fellow contributors as long as they are not used for profit. I often use pictures posted by others that are made public on Ancestry. For those, I appreciate them being made available.

I spent my first year on Ancestry, building my tree with documents accumulated from family members, getting introduced to Findagrave, cleaning up some old family cemeteries, getting them online and connecting the family.

I am an Army Veteran (1971-1972 Ft Hood Tx), and active member of American Legion Post 110 in Nashville, N C. For Memorial Day, we place flags (830+)on the graves of Veterans at Forest Hills Cemetery(Nash County). Up to 15% have no military markings on their markers, but we use records from obituaries and family info. I try to photograph all Veteran memorials with a Flag. Often I will reposition some military markers in some cemeteries to be better displayed and viewed.

The first year or so I left a red rose flower for any memorial I visited on Findagrave in memory of my Mother. A Frenchman informed me that the single red rose was for a loved one. Being a Christian, we are to love one another, but to not confuse those who don't understand, I put together a scrapbook of "flowers" and use the single red rose sparingly.

I prefer to not post pictures of death certificates, and please DO NOT POST LESSER DOCUMENTS, but DO encourage the information to be shared, through edit suggestions, in the Bio section that is pertinent. I agree with many other contributors that a CLEAN Memorial is much more attractive than one cluttered with redundant stuff. Some refer to the "Stuff" as being "Trash"

My Mother is Nan (Rose)Strickland 1915-2020 id# 87233493 Nannie Bet "Nan" Rose Strickland

Please visit her memorial and see how blessed I have been. While you are there, leave a flower and see how a family tree works well with some time spent on it.

Thanks to all contributors that are committed to Findagrave .

Thanks for visiting. Ross 27 May 2025