LONE GRAVE: Elizabeth Davisson Neighbours, 1848 Ohio Co., KY ------------------------------------- From: RSuthWed1@aol.com Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 ------------------------------------ Harford Herald - Date Unkown THE LONE GRAVE On the hill north of the residence of J. Harder, one half mile north of here is a lone grave marked by a large cedar tree, and which at the present time but very few in the community know why this grave is so remote from the last resting place of the relatives of its muted occupant. In the same home that Mr. Harder now occupies, Stephen and Lucy Davisson raised from little children a family of grown sons and daughters, and in this house six of the daughters were married. The daughters were Elizabeth J., Hulda A., Mary H., Martha, Lucy C., Fanny N., and Susan Y. Elizabeth married Wm NEIGHBOURS, Hulda married Thornberry ANDERSON, Mary married John T. NEIGHBOURS, Martha married Matthew GIDCOMB, Fanny married Humphrey BROOKS, Susan married Washington WEDDING, and Lucy died single at the home of her sister, Mrs. BROOKS, near Haynesville in the year 1871. In 1844, about one year before Elizabeth was married, she and her mother were walking one Sunday evening on the land north of their home; at that time which was a woods; and at the top of the hill were two thrifty young dogwood trees standing as if at the head and foot of a grave, when Elizabeth remarked to her mother that when she died she wished to be buried between those trees; and her mother told her that she had also selected this hill as her place of interment. Elizabeth was married in April, 1845, and died at her home near Hine's Mill in the year 1848, and was burried as she had requested when living with her father, between the two dog-wood trees on the hill. About one year after Elizabeth was burried, a small cedar twig was placed at the head of her grave from which the large cedar tree that now markes the grave on the hill has grown. In the year 1852, the land was cleared to a short distance beyond the grave and in the year 1857, the family left the farm and it passed into strange hands; and the grave of Elizabeth NEIGHBOURS, a christian lady was apparently carelessly neglected, and as some members of the family had died in other counties and communities and burried in grave yards, the other deceased members of Stephen Davisson's family were burried in local burrying places in the community they died in. And the grave of Elizabeth is still the Lone Grave on the Hill. FORBES *************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genelaogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.