Gaither Cemetery, Gaither, (Aka Gaither Mountain Cemetery) Boone County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Rosa Cline Date: 26 Apr 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm *********************************************************** "Gone But Not Forgotten" Original Listing April 10, 2007 This is a partial listing of people interred at this cemetery. NOTE: My husband and I have begun to transcribe this cemetery with headstone photos in Feb 2005. Since we live a ways away from this cemetery, and it is a medium to large cemetery, we were unable to finish it in just one trip. Therefore it maybe awhile before this is completed. However in the meantime I have noted below those that I have photos for. But this cemetery is truly a "work in progress". I have obits for some of them, if anyone would like a copy. I have made an alphabetical listing before the actual transcriptions below. Beside each name I have noted if I have an obit (obit ), a headstone photo (hd pic ), or an actual photo (pic ), or newspaper article (art ) for that person. if you would like me to share with you, or you share extra data please feel free to contact me. However, please have the respect to not contact me to complain when I don't have what you request. I will be trying to update this listing as I have time for, and when I do I will put an "*" beside the newest data entered. I live too far away from this cemetery to actually do any look ups. These listings are made from either obits or data given to me by other family or researchers or from the beginning of an actual transcription we've begun . I will be more than happy to share with you what information I have on the people listed below, but I cannot do physical look ups. If you would like to send me data on your family or friends buried at this cemetery, I would be more than happy to accept and add the data into my listings. Please feel free to contact me. I hope this listing helps these people to always be remembered. To try and help folks to always be remembered when they have gone on before us is the main reason I do what I do. And helping folks find family or friends in the process is a good plus as well. Robert Arrington hd pic Margaret Cheatham hd pic Charles Cook hd pic Bird Deatherage hd pic Elsie Deatherage hd pic William Edgmon hd pic Mary Gaither hd pic Ransom Gaither hd pic H.W. Galentine hd pic Lavina Glisson hd pic Infant Son Hankins hd pic John Hankins hd pic Nancy Hankins hd pic Sarah Hankins hd pic Michael Irwin pic obit Barbara McMillin hd pic Henry Nash pic obit Albert Parker hd pic E.J. Parker hd pic Margaret Parker hd pic W.H. Parker hd pic Clarence Parnell hd pic Lester Rhoades hd pic Madisyn Simkins hd pic (look in the M listings below for her transcription) Daisy Trotter hd pic David Trotter hd pic Infant Trotter hd pic James Wasson hd pic Perlina Wasson hd pic Joyce Wray hd pic ******************* ARRINGTON Trellis G Robert W April 4, 1960 Nov 10, 1960 (still alive) Dec 12, 1988 Forever in our Hearts (this is a black headstone with engraved pic of deer and mountains) ** On Marie Harvey's transcription done before 2000, she has noted: Robert Wayne Arrington He was born in Gilmer, TX Son of C.J. Arrington and Wanda Honeycutt Sims Arrington Husband of Trellis Gail Briscoe Arrington ***** (top broken off) BOLEN Cheatham age.d NOT KNOWN DIED June 29, 1888 (this stone is white and what is left is easily read; however with the top broken off it's almost impossible to know the identity of this person. However in the transcription of the cemetery done by Marie Harvey done before 2000, she has this stone as Margaret Cheatham wife of Bolen) ***** BIRD Deatherage BORN July 16, 1805 Died 1880 DEATHERAGE (next side) erected by daughter Nancy Hankins Gone to rest (next side) ELCIE wife of BIRD Deatherage BORN June 20, 1801 DIED (unreadable) ** This is my husband's 3rd great grandparents. Bird Deatherage was born in TN and died in Gaither, AR He was the son of Abner Deatherage and Rebecca Davis Deatherage Bird was married to Elsie Mann Deatherage. Elsie died January 26, 1873 in Boone County, AR ***** Wm. Wilson EDGMON Aug 8, 1883 Oct 28, 1918 (this stone has begun to be covered with lichens) ***** (one side) MARY (the next line is unreadable) of (next line is unreadable) BEAL GAITHER BORN Sept 16, 1792 DIED Oct 1, 1876 AGE 84 Yrs 16D (one side) RANSOM W son of ----F. GAITHER BORN (next line unreadable) DIED (next line unreadable) ** (I believe Ransom and Mary's stone is one in the same. They could be two similar stones side by side, but I believe it to be the same stone.) In Marie Harvey's transcription done before 2000, she has Mary's maiden name as Rogers and on Ransom's parents she has "B. & A.F. And his dates as b. Mar 7, 1870 d. Sept 22, 1872" ***** H.W. Galentine BORN July 30, 1837 in WOOD CO, OHIO DIED July 2, 1900 (This is a VERY TALL headstone toward the back of the cemetery) ***** M-- Lavina GLISSON BORN (broken) (this stone is broken in about three different pieces the top piece is what I transcribed. According to a transcription done by Marie Harvey she states that when she transcribed it, before 2000, the stone had been broken but repaired the name was Mrs. Lavina Glisson and the birth day was Feb 25, 1816 and the death date was covered by the base) ***** SON OF J. N. HANKI NS BORN MAY 18 DIED (this stone is hand carved and has begun to fade) This baby was a stillborn baby son born to John Hankins and Nancy Deatherage Hankins. Our family research states that he was stillborn on May 18, 1868. BUT in a transcription of the cemetery done by Marie Harvey, before 2000, she has him as born May 13 and died May 18th. *related to our Deatherage families* ***** (one side) (engraved pic of a Dove and "HOPE") JOHN HANKINS born in Roon Co, Tenn Nov 30, 1830 DIED Nov 10,1897 Aged 66 Yrs 11 mos. 10 days HANKINS (one side) NANCY wife of JOHN HANKINS Born in Roon Co, Tenn Jan 21, 1827 DIED Aug 5, 1919 age 92 Yrs 6 mos 15 Days (flat military) JOHN HANKINS PVT CO F NICHOL'S ARK CAV REGT CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY NOV 301830 NOV 10 1897 ** John Hankins He was born in Roane County, TN and died in Boone County, AR Nancy Deatherage Hankins She was born in Roane County, TN and died in Boone County, AR Daughter of Bird Deatherage and Elsie Mann Deatherage *related to us through our Deatherage families* ***** SARAH HANKINS BORN JULY DIED NOV (This is a hand carved stone and the dates have faded out as they printed them smaller than the rest of the lettering.) ** Sarah Hankins b. July 29, 1858 She was born in Boone County, AR Daughter of John Hankins and Nancy Deatherage Hankins From our family research we didn't have a death date for her other than "died at an early age". In the transcription of the cemetery done by Marie Harvey-before 2000, she has her death date as November 2, 1860 *related to our Deatherage families* ***** Michael Irwin b. July 3, 1986 d. June 30, 2006 He died in Harrison, AR Son of Melissa Harp (printed out copy) ***** Mother Kristy Michelle MARCKESE Mar 13,1978 (still alive) Daughter "Boobers" Madisyn Paige SIMKINS Nov 6, 1999 Mar 2, 2000 (on the back of Kristy's side is MARCKESE and on the back of Madisyn's side is SIMKINS) ***** Barbara J Harold D Jan 6, 1935 Dec 1, 1941 Nov 5, 2001 (empty - still alive) McMILLIN (this has an engraved cross between the names) ***** (engraved pic of a hand pointing up) In Memory Of Albert Parker (the rest of the stone is faded to read) ** From the transcription done by Marie Harvey - before 2000, she has his dates as born and died April 6, 1859. ***** Henry L. Nash b. May 26, 1946 d. June 17, 2006 He was born in West Ridge, AR and died in Harrison, AR Son of L.A. Nash and Henretta Oswalt Nash Husband of Tammy Scott Nash He served in the Army (printed out copy) ***** (engraved pic of a hand pointing up) In Memory Of Margaret Elizabeth Parker (rest of stone unreadable) ** From the transcription done by Marie Harvey - before 2000, she has her dates as b. Mar 19, 1867 and died Nov 6, 1870. ***** (one side) W. H. Parker BORN May 23, 1829 DIED Nov 11,1908 (one side) W.H. Parker and wife (poem unreadable) (one side) E.J. Parker Born Sept 15, 1832 Died June 11, 1908 ***** (engraved pic of a lamb) CLARENCE H son of J.H. & P. PARNELL died July 1885 AGED (broken off base) (This stone is beginning to fade and is broken at the age. In the transcription done by Marie Harvey - before 2000, she has noted that he died July 26 and was 8 months and 2 days old) ***** "Bible of Life" Father LESTER D RHOADES Aug 25, 1905 Sept 9, 1981 ** In the transcription done by Marie Harvey, before 2000, she has noted, and that her data came from Harrison Daily Times: Lester David Rhoades He was born in Burlington, CO and died in Little Rock, AR Son of James Edward Rhoades and Myrtle Irvin Rhoades Husband of Esther Van Sickle ***** (enraved pic of a dove) Little David son of R. & M.H. Trotter BORN May 25, 1883 DIED July 22, 1883 Budded on earth to bloom in heaven ** ---------sy dau of - & M.J. TROTTER BORN Aug 19, 1881 DIED July 7, 1884 (This is Daisy Mae Trotter) ** (top broken off) R & M.J. TROTTER BORN Oct (rest is unreadable) (This is Infant of Robert and Mary Jane Trotter was stillborn on Oct 3, 1880) ** Charles L. Cook BORN Apr ------ DIED (faded) ** These stones are all on a crypt like stone. The Trotter children's stones are all laying across the top and Charles Cook's is on the end as though the crypt was originally his. I wonder if the children's stones broken off where they originally was and then someone placed them across the top of this stone. or if this was the way it originally was. I have found no relation thus far of the Trotter family and Charles Cook, not to say that they aren't related I've just not found a link yet. The children are all children of Robert Trotter and Mary Jane Hankins Trotter. They are related to us through our Deatherage families) ***** Perlina Gaither James F. Wasson wife of Born Sept 20,1838 James F. Wasson DIED Aug 28,1924 BORN July 2, 1848 Age 85yrs 11 mo. 8 Days DIED Feb 1, 1937 (Poem under both sides unreadable) ***** Joyce E WRAY May 25, 1919 April 8, 1975 *****