I won't get into the whole family,but my family came from Arkansas went by wagon to Oklahoma.I have an oil lamp and teapot both on perfect condition from the trip.I also have a small book written by a great great great grandma,who went to look for her laddie boy during the war of north and south.She was amazing
Reminds me of my father and me!!! We would go to old cemeteries alot. We would look at the years and wonder...how they got where they were, how hard it was back them,etc. Now....my father is one of those graves. I know it might sound horrible... But I miss those times we had.❤
Note that Sergeant F. M. Moore has a UNION Army gravestone. 2nd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Here is more about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Arkansas_Cavalry_Regiment_(Union)
This is a very interesting old cemetery. I'm glad the two little boys could be buried together here before the family moved on. How hard to leave them behind, knowing you will never get to return to their graves. My maternal grandparents were 1st cousins, and they were both born and raised in North Missouri. Mom always said they grew up always being with each others families and were comfortable around each other. It did happen a lot a few generations back when families were close and the cousins were always around each other. So, it wasn't just in Arkansas, lol! By the way, it's nice to see your faces!
Thanks for the video. Hope maybe someone around there can do some regular mowing and maintenance to honor these resting souls. ❤ If ya'll are ever in Garland County, I am looking for some grave markers with the last name of Bain. Moved out there from Tennessee in the late 1800's. Thank you. God bless!!
When I was little the Boy Scouts used to work in the town cemetery to keep it nice. Now the town budget pays to have it done. The two large cemeteries one Catholic owned by theChurch and one for everyone owned by a private company both maintain the graves for a fee from the sale of the plots.
Well, Thomas seems like he was a bit promiscuous! 😂 If he'd married the sisters, it would have said so. RIP Sellers Brothers💙Its sad that someday there will be buildings and such on all these old cemeteries. Thank y'all for all y'alls time and work to tell these stories. ☺
I taught my child about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic by stopping at old country cemetaries on trips. There are whole families buried within days or a few of weeks of each other in every cemetary we stopped at in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
Wow! That uncle was evil. Poor Frank Moore. I’m sure that the pool of people who were of marriageable age was pretty small back then. The tent graves are awesome too! I wonder if they did that for aesthetic reasons or if there was another reason. Sarah Meadors tent grave, but I don’t see any wording. The Sellers boys stones almost look like they have been re-etched at some point. Thanks for sharing this video. I will say a prayer for the folks buried there. ❤Brenda P❤
I love this! I grew up in Van Buren and enjoy hearing the stories. I see a lot of improvements in your videos too! Keep making them, I’ll keep watching. Have fun!!!
Why are some of the old white gravestones still clean and some are absolutely covered with moss and lichens? When they are only feet apart? Different materials are resistant?❤❤❤❤
My mom’s paternal side was originally from Ireland, but sailed to Newfoundland for ship building before 1800. I guess it was pretty isolated there over 200 years ago, so cousins married cousins.
Tried to find out more about Thomas Kidd and all I could find was that he had 4 children, all 4 were born in Kentucky. BUT what was more interesting was the fact that when I looked up all 5 names, no mention of Nancy or her sisters!
I lived in Prairie Grove AR for a couple years...I love the "telling on you" stone! At least if someone does a DNA hunt they'll find a clue! And marrying cousins appears sorta normal in that part of the world. 😮
I went to Find a Grave to look up Bolton Cemetery but it wasn't there. My 6th great grandfather is buried somewhere around Alma so I wanted to see if he is in that cemetery. Anyway I am enjoying your channel. This was the first time I had seen you so I subscribed.
Huh. I wonder if those Moores were an offshoot of my people? According to Family Search Mom's Mom had Moores in the tree in the 1700-early 1800s. Though most of those Moores are out of Virginia. Anyway, thanks for the interesting video! I'm homebound so these type of videos are the only way I can get my "let's look at neat, old graves!" fix. Lol Peace, Grooviness, and safe travels!
I just stumbled across your channel and it’s very interesting! I live in Poteau, Oklahoma, there is a very old cemetery in Fanshawe Oklahoma, called Maxi cemetery. It would be worth a trip!
Born in @777? Here in the great blue atate of Maryland we have people born in the 1630's! Massachusetts have even older graves! 🇩🇪🇨🇭🇺🇲🌊♀️🌊⚓⛵⚓🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Lots of sisters married there sisters ex. Sometimes after they died. My great grandmother married her first husband, divorced and several years later her sister married him.
Okay.. as a researcher, I just finished going down a rabbit hole with the Thomas Kidd / Gregory family… it doesn’t look as though Thomas married any of the Gregory sisters except Nancy..& he seems to have had children with her sisters. 1860 Census: (living in the same house) Thomas Kidd (48), Nancy (30), Polly (8), Eliza T. (6), Pamela (6), Elizabeth (5), George W. (4), John (1), Martha Gregory (20), William Gregory (4). 1870 Census: Thomas Kidd, N.A., M.J., Permelia (Pamela on previous census), Louisa (Eliza on previous census), Elizabeth, G.W., Jerry (John on previous census), Hanna. Immediately next door: Martha Gregory, William (13), Shelby (8), Angeline (5), B.A. (unable to read age). Immediately next door to Martha: Malinda Stephens (21), John (9? - may say 3), Riley (2) Thomas is the only one listed as being able to read and write on this census. 1 June 1875 Thomas S Kidd registered for his 40 acres of land in Crawford County, Arkansas. 1880 census: J.M. Kidd (21 - head), Sarah J. (25 - wife), Hannah (17 - sister), John F. (7 - brother), Julian (6 - nephew), Nancy Gregory (45 - mother) Nancy is listed as being Divorced on the 1880 census & has reverted to her maiden name. Household next to them is just a male named Stevens, age 25. Next Household: Martha Gregory (38 - claiming to be a widow), Shelvine (17), Angeline (14), Betty Ann (12), Mary Ann (1) Next Household: Malinda Gregory (40 - claiming to be a widow), John (19), Riley (13), Marion (3), Mary A. Masterson (26) Nancy Gregory (age 48), married F.H. Berna (Francis H.) (age 69) in April 1882 (his 1 wife died in January 1882). Francis owned at least 120 acres of land and died in May of 1884. John Gregory (22), Malinda’s son, married Nancey Berna (15), the granddaughter of Francis Berna in September 1883. Martha (Patricia “Pat”) Gregory (age 40) married James Thomas (age 28) in November 1884. Shelvin/Shelby Gregory’s death certificate lists “Tomas Kidd Gregory” as his father & mother as “Patsey Gregory” - which was information provided to the clerk by a friend or family member of the deceased.
I love seeing areas of Arkansas that I am familiar with. I currently live in So California and did live in Van Buren for a year in 2005 until my mom passed, and then my husband wanted to come back to California 😕. We have family and friends there, and I desperately want to move back. Someday 🙏. I’d love to see some in fort smith and VB. I have relatives buried in other cities there, I’ll have to look them up. There were some graves that looked like big piles of rocks! I’m not sure what that is about…? Would you be interested in going there and checking it out? I’ll find which cemetery it was
11:50 1870-1871 i think it was either thyphoid or yellow fever OUTBREAK across the south. I found a plot with a woman who survied the civil war, but in 1871 her and five of her kids died. I researched and found out there was a big epidemic across the south at that time.
Wow thats an old cemetery 1777... wonder where they came from originally! My grandma was born 1903 in Del Rio, Tennessee abd sone of her older family moved west .
I do genealogy research for my family. My mother’s family was in Arkansas. I have at least two men who married sisters after the first sister died. They were in Conway County in the 1850s. Most families had numerous children. In some cases, only half or less made it to adulthood. In others, all lived to have their own children. There were not a lot of different families in the area, so the options were few. If one sister had several children when her husband died, and a widower of another sister who died, there were a lot children, so when they married, that was some huge families. Many members of my family are buried at the Woolverton Mountain Cemetery in Conway County.
Did you notice that the stones that are laying flat have letters that are not as worn down. I’m guessing cause the upright ones get rain washing down the front over so much time that it wears down the writing.
I’m so but if we don’t walk on the graves we can’t give the viewers a good shot of the graves , some people on the other side of the country have seen their loved ones grave for the first time watching our videos .
In my family two unrelated ancestors got married and then a relative from each one met at the wedding and later married each other. I guess they were “cousins” but weren’t otherwise related.
Hi! I am new to your wonderful site but, please, put the light on the opposite side of stone so it can be seen easier and please, keep it still, it moves so I can’t read! You two are fun with what you are doing! I will be starting very soon! Weather is reaching Spring fast!
This sounds like my Dads Father. Later in my Dad's life after he got out of the Army, he learned that he had numerous half brothers and sisters. He made contact with all of those he was made aware of before he passed away.
Have you been to the Wickes Arkansas? That is where my dad’s right leg is buried. He had to have it amputated when he was 5 years old. He lived to be 88 years old. Became a doctor Dr. Gale Seigler D.O. He is buried in Plainview. Texas. I believe his parents, my grandparents , Joe E. ( Joseph Ebenezer) and Lula (Smith maiden) Seigler are buried there as well along with numerous other family members. My grandmother was a twin. Her sister was Bula.i believe her husbands name was Ben. Not sure her married name. My grandparents lived in Mena the majority of their lives.
I have heard that in the “olden days”, if you could survive through the childhood diseases until 4 years old, your life expectancy (barring war or accidents or death from childbirth) would be the Biblical “ 3 score and 10 or 4 score”. The poor children skewed the average life expectancy age in early America.
Perhapse the sisters that Thomas "kidd" fathered the children with were of Native American descent. It was common in some communities for the husband to, if asked by the wife to recieve her sisters for procreation. Keep in mind in most Native American communities the "house" was the property of the woman and under her rule. Should he fail to provide or follow her instructions he would be replaced.
@@barbaraschleiff3774 Ill do some asking around. There is someone I retired with that just retired with army National Guard out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He used to do the markings of the Revolutionary and Civil War vets. He may know I'll let you know
The one without the death date, probably was not buried there. Info may have been put on when wife died so only death date needed to be added. Then for some reason he was buried somewhere else. This happened with my grandmother. I have her spare stone in my yard now. Got it from cemetery.
They may have been mormons. Communities were often isolated in those days as well. There could be very understandable reasons for these odd unions for the harsh living of those days.
If you think 1777 is an early date (it’s not really because it’s the beginning of the 19th century) take a trip to Charleston, SC or Savannah, GA. You’ll see dates of birth into mid and early 1600’s.
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@@barbaraschleiff3774 There is room for Improvement but I saw everything clearly and no one else in the comments here complained about the camera being 'so far out of focus.' I had no problems with this video. It was an interesting video. Some people just love to complain.