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Subject: Re: [FREEMAN-L] FREEMAN-D Digest V99 #247
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 19:55:03 EDT
Hi there, Linda:
I was just looking through the two Freeman files I have this afternoon
and there were a couple of letters from you in it. I was wondering how you
were getting along after all you've been through physically.
Moab and some of his family are buried under fieldstones on what is called
"the old Alumbaugh farm" in Estill County. When we were there in 1977,Art
Richardson and his wife, Gracie, both of whom were, I believe my second
cousins, discouraged us from going there because it was so badly overgrown.
I don't mean this as a criticism, but I find it difficult to understand
how those people who have such lovely little cemeteries that are so well
kept for later generations do nothing about the older generations. Probably
ownership of the property has something to do with it. Some of those farms
have changed hands many times.
As far as the Bentleys are concerned, it has always surprised me no one
seems to know where they are buried. Back in the 1970's Mayme Whitton, who
is either the grandaughter or great-grandaughter of America Freeman, one of
Moab's daughters by Cheney Bentley , got the bright idea she could find where
they were buried. She left her car and started back through some weeds (this
was somewhere near where the Bentleys supposedly farmed), but she got
stopped. Some old man got out of his porch swing and approached her. She
said he was a mean looking man. She told him she wanted to see the little
cemetery.
"Ain't nobuddy there but us'uns" he rasped.
She took him at his word and cleared out. Maybe he had a still back
there.Who knows?
Yes, I would be interested in the older Moab. I bought John Gott's CD
that has 1000 pages of his research on it, but I haven't found anything we
didn't know already,yet. I am, however, just getting used to using CD's.
Always good to hear from you.
Pat
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