Rena, I've lost track of the person who originally asked about "Garrison" Cemetery. I just checked Pat Carmichael's DC Cemetery books, and she lists Arden Cemetery in Vol. 1. She also lists the little adjacent cemetery where your great-grandparents are buried, and she calls it "Garrison." Marie Garrison is her source for the listing. Pat is getting a copy of this email and she might want to weigh in on this if she has time. Also, I love to research place names. I just checked the Cumulative Table of Contents for the Journal of the D.C. Historical Society. In the Dec. 1984 issue, the late Marie Garrison wrote about "Arden and Williams Hollow." Much of this you know, Rena, but other readers will not. Marie said that Joseph Garrison and his wife came to the Arden area in 1857 from Webster Co. and they are buried in what we now call "Arden" Cemetery. But she says that the first store at Arden was built in 1885 by M.S. Newton and he established the post office in 1887 calling it "Arden." He named it so because the "beautiful country reminded him of Shakespeare's Forest of Arden in the play 'As You Like It.'" So, prior to 1887, the cemetery could well have been called "Garrison," that being the dominate family buried there. For those not familiar, the valley that lies along the south side of the Arden and Garrison cemeteries is called "Williams Hollow." A dry branch runs goes through the valley, and my grandparents -- Ira and Minta Hartley had their farm just downstream from Arden--probably less than 1/2 mile. My late Uncle Eldon Hartley told me (in a taped interview) that in the 1930s, a flash flood washed down human remains from further upstream, and he described what I thought was another cemetery closer to the valley and perhaps on its south side. I think he is describing a lost cemetery because neither Pat nor anyone else seems to have identified it. By the way, I don't yet know for whom "Williams Holler" was named. Any info out there on that question? The Ozark Uncle Kenneth Brown, Ph.d., CPA Emeritus (Retired) Professor, Springfield, MO Email1: ozarkuncle@sbcglobal.net Email2: kwb237f@smsu.edu -----Original Message----- From: TBres24@aol.com [mailto:TBres24@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:30 AM To: MODOUGLA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MODOUGLA] Arden Cem Hi My grgrgrandparents and three of their girls are buried down the hill east from Arden Cem in a little valley by a tree and they are the only five buried there John Wesley Garrison and Mary Ann Polly Garrison b. 1841 and 1845 respectively (they were cousins hence her maiden name is also Garrison) and their three daughters Malinda (Linda) A Garrison b. 1866 d. 1897, Lydia Sophronia Garrison b. 1870 d. 1909, Arbezenia (Arba) S Garrison b. 1874 d. 1915 Of course the Arden Cem is was on their land and a lot of Garrison are buried in the Arden Cem Maybe someone can get on here to let you know about early name of Arden Cem but I do not believe it was ever named Garrison altho I could be wrong on that Ken Brown would be one to contact on this question also. Douglas County site coordinator. Now there is a Garrison Cem over in Christian Co MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/garrison.htm Would you be able to tell me the one you are looking for?? Best Rena Colorado ==== MODOUGLA Mailing List ==== Don't forget about the Douglas County, MO Resource page http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/MO/Douglas/ ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237