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From: "Vickie Beard THOMPSON" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Warnett/Concord/Mooneyham
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:53:51 -0700
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Harold,

Thank you so much for the directions, I really appreciate it.

Vickie Beard Thompson


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From: "Harold Blevins" <>
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Warnett/Concord/Mooneyham


> Guess it's time for me to put in my two cents worth. (grin)
>
> The old Warnett place is on Highway 58, between Sage and Guion
> and near what used to be "Gid". Carroll H shows the Twilley Cemetery
> off the road about a mile, I would guess, back to the west and near
> Rocky Bayou, and probably no more than a mile from Lunenburg. This
> would be on south of Reeves cemetery, perhaps a mile. The old Andy
> Warnett place was on down the road a bit further, I believe, and the house
> was on the other side of the road. I don't know if this was part of an
older
> Warnett place or not. If you can get in touch with Gwen Warnett, she can
> probably tell you, I believe she is Andy's niece. I believe she lives in
> Batesville.
>
> If you go back and take the other end of Highway 58, (from Sage to
Sidney),
> about 2 miles from the junction of Hiway 69 and 58, (going east), you will
> come to Concord Church. It is a little rock church on the right side of
the
> road. (My Dad was a rock mason, and I helped him put the rock veneer on
> this church one summer when I was home from college in the early 50's)
> If you turn right (south) at Concord and go about a mile you will come to
> the Taylor Cemetery. Julia Mooneyham was a Taylor, from the same family
> that is buried in the Taylor Cemetery. From what Johnny Bone has said, I
> believe that the Mooneyham place must have been near the Cemetery. So
> the tree that Mr. Mooneyham hung himself on may have very well been near
> this place. I believe the story went that he had been depressed and his
wife
> and child went off and left him at home, and when they came back and could
> not find him, began to search and found him hanging from the tree. This
> story
> is in one of the DML books, I forget which one. (He does not show up as
> being
> buried in Taylor, so wherever the grave is, it is probably
> unmarked.......HRB
>
>
>
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