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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHe reflected fondly on the residents he came to know at the farm. He recalled a young boy who never healed properly after breaking his back and a personable train porter who had a stroke that didn\u2019t allow him to continue to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hastings said most people who came to the farm stayed until they died. Sometimes, that meant they worked on the farm for a year. Sometimes, it meant they worked for 50 [years]. Then, they were laid to rest at the farm\u2019s cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI suppose over 200 people are buried over there, but there\u2019s no name on any grave,\u201d Hastings said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s where Danielle Caudle and Angela Ziegler step in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2021, Caudle relocated to Lincoln County with her husband and five kids for her husband\u2019s work. At the time, the Lincoln County Poor Farm was used as an organic flower farm and the cemetery as a meditation garden. Caudle and her husband were looking for a farm where her family could live and work, not exactly a meditation garden. But when she pulled onto the property, which greeted her with an adorable little stream and a rickety bridge, Caudle said she knew it was meant to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo this was not really what we were looking for at all,\u201d she said. \u201cWe saw the pictures, we showed up, and we were all sold immediately.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n She loved it so much that she convinced her mother, Angela Ziegler, and her father to sell their farm in Louisiana and move onto the poor farm in Lincoln County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s no wonder the previous owner turned the cemetery full of unmarked graves into a meditation garden. Caudle described it as \u201cthe most peaceful place you could ever imagine.\u201d There\u2019s nothing but good energy that comes from the farm. This is not the set of some horror movie or paranormal investigation.\u00a0GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BEFORE THERE was food stamps and welfare, there were poor farms. People with mental and physical disabilities, those without financial or familial support, or those who were unable to work stayed on publicly owned properties. They maintained them as they would any family farm. \u201cEverybody helped, and everybody had a job,\u201d the late Ralph Hastings, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/fayetteville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/3-1024x683.png\")
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