Buried Passions by Andrew Grey

Author:Andrew Grey [Grey, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-396-1
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

“WHAT IS this?” Luka pointed as four men and two women walked toward where we were working.

“Emma?” I asked as she came forward.

She took my hand. “I saw you working yesterday and made some phone calls. We’re here to help. Most of the group will clear trees and brush, and Elaine and I will help clear away the vines.” She grinned. “You’ve already made great progress.”

“Thank you.”

“Every one of these people knew Samuel and worked with him. He wanted to do this, so we can do this for him.” She smiled and took charge of her team. They all got to work toward the street while Luka started up the chipper and I tugged branches and brush to him.

“Jonah,” Emma called a bit later, over the hum of the engine and the talk of people working.

I hurried to where she knelt on the ground, clearing the last of the vines and dirt from one of the stones. We had uncovered dozens of them, with some needing repairs but most simply requiring the removal of debris from on top.

“Look,” she said, pointing at a plain stone etched with the name Quinton Alders. The date of death was 1810.

“Yes?” I wasn’t sure what was so important. I had to be missing something.

Emma stared at me for a second, and I felt like a kid who had just been asked a question he didn’t know the answer to. “This section has a lot of old graves. I think we’ve come up with six men who fought in the Revolution. There have always been rumors that a signer of the Declaration was buried here in Carlisle, but no one has ever found any indication.” She patted the top of the stone. “This is it. He signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 in Philadelphia. Then he came back here and lived out the rest of his life.” She patted the stone again and then stepped back. “This is a grave of one of the country’s founding fathers.”

“Wow,” I said softly. “That’s really cool.”

“Yes. But it also means this place is important. It’s our very own link to the founding of the country. We always had Molly Pitcher in the old cemetery closer to town, but this….” She looked like a schoolkid let out for summer. “This is a big deal.”

“Do you think Samuel knew this was here?”

“I doubt it. The growth we’ve been clearing is decades old. I suspect this section fell into disuse and there weren’t the resources to clear it. So the project got put off year after year, until it became daunting. There’s still a lot of work to do, even once the brush and small trees are cleared away.”

“True.” I looked all around at the area, which now looked more like a cemetery rather than a tangle. “I want to keep the tall trees for shade, but I’d like to get rid of the rest.”

“We’re well on our way,” she said, glancing at the others. “There’s one more thing I want to show you.

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