Monument Monday - George L. Witherspoon

At Rest

G.L. Witherspoon

July 14, 1843

Sept. 26, 1920

Buried Mapleview Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 21 October 2014.

According to his Kentucky death certificate (#22622), G.L. Witherspoon died in a sanitarium in Louisville, Kentucky. The names of his parents were not listed. A brief death notice appeared in the Evansville Courier on Thursday, 30 September 1920. It stated "The remains of George Witherspoon, who died in Louisville, Sunday, were buried in the Mapleview cemetery. Mr. Witherspoon comes from one of the old families of this county and was a brother to Mrs. R.W. Wilson of this place (Marion)."

Published 30 March 2015, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Jane M. Witherspoon

Jane M.

Consort of

H.M. Witherspoon

Died

 

 

A tree is growing around the tombstone in Livingston Cemetery, Caldwell County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 15 March 2013.

 

Gregory Watson, compiler of Caldwell County Ancestors, Vol. 2, page 200 (1998) gives the death date of Jane M. Witherspoon as 7 March 1864, age 55 years.

 

Hiram M. Witherspoon and Miss Jane M. Armstrong married 8 January 1839 in Caldwell County. Hiram M. Witherspoon died in 1877 and is buried in Mapleview Cemetery, Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.

 

Published 9 April 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

 



Tombstone Tuesday - George & Martha Witherspoon

In 1835, Bethany Presbyterian Church moved from the current location of Crooked Creek Missionary Baptist Church, about 1 mile from Marion, Crittenden County to where U.S. 60 makes a 90 degree turn as it heads toward Livingston County. The church is long gone, but the adjoining cemetery, called Old Marion, remains as the final resting place for some of Marion's earliest settlers. Crittenden County was created in 1842 and Marion became the county seat not long after that.

Among the older tombstones in Old Marion Cemetery are those for George and Martha Witherspoon, who came from North Carolina at an early date. The Membership List of Bethany-Marion Presbyterian Church 1803-1881, compiled from the official record book by Robert M. Wheeler, lists George Witherspoon as a charter Elder in 1813 and Martha Witherspoon as a charter member. George's death date is listed as 3/16/1844 and Martha's death date is given as 11/19/1845. George Witherspoon left a will dated 3 February 1840 and recorded 13 May 1844 in Crittenden County Will Book 1, page 6.  Unfortunately, a tree has tried to eat the tombstone for George Witherspoon so we are unable to read any anything but his last name and March 16.  The tombstones were photographed 24 October 2012.

 

In

memory

of

----- Witherspoon

March 16,

 

 

In

memory

of

Martha Witherspoon

died Nov. 19

1845

in her 63 year