Driving through North Carolina, we stumbled upon a fenced thicket of trees alongside a county road just outside of Sims. It was a curious spot. The copse was oddly out of place, riding the edge of endless fields of harvested crops. We stopped on a chance, and our suspicions paid off. Tucked among the branches and brambles was a pair of untended graves. Markers for Roxie E. Davis and infant Carl Ervin Davis were in relatively good shape with little wear or discoloration. Later research suggests that this is the Old Davis Farm Cemetery, one of (no doubt) hundreds such burial sites across the state. One hundred or more years ago, this spot was likely rural, the distant corner of a long0standing family farm. After the family sold the property and moved away, the landscape changed but their dead stayed as they were.
