The first stop was the Old Flournoy Cemetery, located a short drive east, off of the Corning-Paskenta Road. Permission had to be granted from a local farmer to access the cemetery, which could only be accessed from private property. After a short drive on a dirt road, we exited the buses and walked approximately 1000 yards through a pasture to the cemetery. President Charles Martin explained the history of the cemetery and the Flournoy Family.

This is a family cemetery begun by the pioneer George Flournoy family, circa 1871. It is located in a meadow south and east of the hamlet which shares the Flournoy name. The cemetery is on private property one mile south of the main road between Corning and Paskenta. The cemetery property is no longer owned by the Flournoy family.

The Flournoy family came to these rolling hills to raise stock and to farm in March of 1870. George Henry Flournoy, Sr. was a Confederate Soldier who came west at the end of the Civil War. As was a custom of the times, especially given their Southern heritage, a portion of the family homestead was set aside as a burial ground. The cemetery contains the graves of twenty individuals. Most are Flournoy family members, but several close friends of the family are also buried here. The earliest burial was that of Mary Friend Flournoy, a daughter of George Henry Flournoy Sr. and his wife, Nannie Martin Flournoy. Mary died October 7, 1871.

The three latest burials are those of the Gibson family. Dr. Richmond E. Gibson, an old-time doctor in the Paskenta area, obtained the property through marriage into the Flournoy family. He died in 1941. Amy Gibson, a daughter of Dr. Gibson and his wife, Elizabeth Harriet Flournoy-Gibson, was the last to be buried here. She was killed by a bull in the 1940's, not long after the death of her father.

After our stop at the Flournoy Cemetery, we then continued west on the Corning-Paskenta Road through the town of Paskenta, southbound on a gravel road and picked up Road 306, just outside of Newville. Our next stop was the Millsaps Cemetery, which is located some five miles south of the Newville Road, just west of Burrow's Gap, on the main road between Newville and Elk Creek. It is on a knoll which overlooks the original Millsaps homestead. Its entrance is graced by a wooden arch that dates back to 1896. The cemetery can be spotted, with some effort, to the west of the roadway at the aforementioned location.

G. W. (Grandpa) Millsaps homesteaded the land just east of the cemetery in 1858 for the purpose of raising cattle. When his wife died in 1884, he opened the cemetery as a final resting place for his family and the families of his neighbors. Many settlers came to the Chrome area in response to G. W. Millsaps offer of an acre of land to each, which he had made in an effort to populate the region.

The hamlet of Chrome still exists, just south of the cemetery and the Millsaps homestead. At one time the cemetery was in danger of being inundated by the proposed Newville Reservoir. Happily, that project never came to fruition. The cemetery is in good condition, lovingly cared for by the descendants of G.W. Millsaps. The final resting place of G.W. Millsaps is at the western border of the cemetery, providing "Grandpa" Millsaps with an excellent view of the cattle ranch which he once ran.

One point of interest is the varied spelling of the family surname on many of the headstones. Some stones are marked "Millsap", while the majority retain the final consonant. Many members of the pioneer Burrows family, for whom Burrows Gap through the volcanic ridge was named, are also buried here.

After our visit to the Millsaps Cemetery, we continued south on Road 306. From this road we were able to see one of the smallest communities in existence, Chrome, which has a population of 12. We stopped in Elk Creek and enjoyed a wonderful lunch at the Elk Creek Grange.

After our stop in Elk Creek, we continued east on Highway 162. Between Elk Creek and Willows, is the Nye Ranch Cemetery, which is located on a hill north of highway 162 between Elk Creek and Willows. The distance is approximately thirteen miles west of Willows. The buses parked just off the highway at the bottom of the hill. Accessing this cemetery proved to be a bit of a challenge, because the hike was approximately a half of a mile up the hill and it gave us all the opportunity to work off the lunch we just ate.

After we reached the cemetery, President Charles Martin gave us a brief history of this cemetery. This is a family cemetery that was initially part of the Urias P. Nye Ranch. The earliest burial here is that of Maria Amelia Morrison who died in 1880. The most striking headstone marks the final resting place of Carolina L. Angell and her two infants. This stone can be seen from cars passing on the highway below. She was the sister-in-law of U. P. Nye and the daughter of Princeton pioneer, Dr. Almon Lull. Her father and mother, Maria Lull, are buried nearby.

The cemetery is located on private property and is in the care of the Willows Cemetery District. After our brief visit at the Nye Ranch Cemetery, we boarded the buses, which took us back to our starting point via Highway 162 East through Willows, Interstate 5 North to Corning and the Corning-Paskenta Road West to Flournoy.