Tombstone Tuesday - Iley and Alice Orr

ORR

They've done their best

They're now at rest

Iley

1868 - 1946

Alice

1869 - 1942

Buried Tosh Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 23 September 2015.

The 1870 Crittenden County census shows Ida P. Orr, age 1 and a female listed in the household of K.P. and Laura Orr. This Ida P. was likely Iley P. Orr, the one year old son of this couple.

Iley P. Orr and Miss Jo Allice Clark married 9 November 1887 Crittenden County. 

Kentucky death certificate #13127 shows that Alice Orr was born 5 July 1869 Kentucky and died 18 May 1942. Her parents were listed as Marion Clark and Emlie Crider. Her husband was Ila Orr.

Published 15 December 2015, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - William B. Nation

NATION

William B.                         Eva V.

    1863 - 1919                       1869 - 1901

Buried at Pilot Knob Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 25 August 2010.

William B. Nation Jr., the son of William Nation Sr. and Eliza J. Springer, was born 24 May 1863 in Tennessee and died 22 December 1919 Crittenden County, according to his Kentucky death certificate #31893 (1919).

 He married Miss Eva V. Orr 30 December 1885 in Crittenden County and they had two children, Pleasant and Fannie. Eva died 1 November 1901 and, according to her obituary in the 19 December 1901 issue of the Crittenden Press, she left a loving mother, devoted husband, two little children, two brothers and three sisters. Her last words were "Blessed Jesus."


On 19 April 1904 William B. Nation married Mrs. Bettie Martin at Marion. William B. and Bettie  had the following children: Georgia and William D.

A View of Crowell Cemetery

This is an old, undated photograph of a portion of Crowell Cemetery, located on Nunn Switch Road in Crittenden County, Kentucky. The tombstone in the front of the photo reads:

Melvin Son of
I.R. & D.T. Tosh
Oct. 17, 1917
Oct. 2, 1923

Directly behind the Tosh tombstone is one that reads:

Kattie
Wife of A.L. Orr
Born Sept. 17, 1887
Died Mar. 14, 1917

Both tombstones have pictures of the deceased.