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If you have contacted their customer service before, do they respond quickly?

I sent them an email about a broken PB3 on 8/1 and haven't heard back. The warranty claim form on their website wouldn't work for me so I emailed customerservice@leadandsteel.com

Not sure if this is the type of post that you want here, but I'm proud of my find and I had to share it somewhere.

A bit of background: My family owned a farm from c. 1800 and it was passed down for generations. The property In the mid 1980's, the farm was taken by the government for a large park. Part of the deal was that the park was supposed to preserve the Cemetary. The last burial was in 1862

I'd heard this story growing up but my family never made much effort to check on the Cemetary. My dad and I went once when I was a kid but we weren't able to find it. He only had memories of seeing it as a child from visiting his grandparents on the farm. The area of the park containing the Cemetary was closed to the public for decades and had been opened up for hiking sometime after our last attempted visit c. 2000. I've always been curious about the Cemetary and the farm but I never did anything with it.

Present day, I moved into the area and became more curious about the Cemetary. I've never been into cemeteries or genealogy but it was a mystery that I couldn't let go. Dad is the only living person I know who has visited the Cemetary and his memory is quite faded.

I spent several evenings researching genealogy to learn the history of the people who lived there. My Wife, a librarian assisted me in finding old property maps and aerial photography from the 1970's that showed the old farm. Additional aerial images assisted in identifying places to search.

I contacted a park ranger who stated that the Cemetary did not exist, however, curiosity got the better of him and he began asking locals and retired park employees about it. He contacted me a short time later and shared what he had learned. This ranger attempted to locate it but was unable to. He collected more information and provided me with a section of the park he believed held the cemetary that he had not had a chance to search yet. I compared this to an old aerial I found. A distant cousin had done some research in the 1950s that I found through Familysearch. This information stated that the Cemetary was in an apple orchard planted by Johnny Appleseed

I searched the area he suggested and after a few hours, I found it! Covered in leaves and dirt and near a grove of unkept apple trees, far off the trail, I found a moss covered gravestone face down in the dirt.

I can't begin to state how much I learned from this experience about my own family's history and the history of the area. It was satisfying to find what I had been seeking for years and been curious about my whole life, but it felt like an adventure had come to an end.The park is going to protect and preserve the rediscovered cemetery. I do hope that by finding it and having the park preserve it that I haven't opened it up to vandalism.

Thanks for reading my long post. I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to seek out something like that again.