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    1. Re: [MSLAFAYE] Lost Cemeteries of Lafayette
    2. Hello, I would like to underscore what the Stokes researcher wrote. I'm very appreciative that someone is undertaking this task. My husband and I spent a day at the Skipwirth Library in Oxford a couple years ago and an email "cousin" from MO arranged for us to meet a cousin of hers who lived in Oxford. She very thoughtfully went with us looking for two cemeteries that might have my husband's gr-gr-gr-grandparents' graves. She could only find one and, of course, there were many unmarked and deteriorating stones. We never found anything substantial to confirm where this lady thought they might be buried. I realize we might never find such proof, but am glad you are trying to substantiate some of the older, less-known or unlisted cemeteries. My husband is looking for more information on Isham Frederick Thweatt and wife, Elizabeth (Reeves) Thweatt of Lafayette Co. who were on the 1850 census there after moving from Marshall Co. KY with some of their family. Family records say that he died or was murdered in Lafayette Co. in 1863. My husband's line (through son, Miles Green Thweatt) moved back to KY before his father's death and bought his father's land there. His parents, Elizabeth and Isham, remained in Lafayette Co. and are, reportedly, buried there. Thanks again. Judy in Michigan

    12/12/2004 01:58:56