Rec, Juliet Amanda Sevier Abston was buried at St. John Cemetery. That cemetery sits on a hill just above the Lilly Dale Recreation Area of Dale Hollow Lake. The white crosses are still there to mark the all of the unknowns relocated there when the lake was constructed. Gary D. Norris > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:38:57 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TNOVERTO] Texas Migrations > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:39:07 -0700 > > Gary- I don't know if Lipscomb Petit (Lip) Abston served in Civil War or > not. He and Amanda Sevier were married 9/15/1864 in Willow Grove and per > family records died 1/21/1900 in Willow Grove and was supposedly buried > there. Their children (w/ dob's) were: James Alfred Abston(my GGF) > 12/1/1869; William J. 12/15/1871; Maggie Abston French , 1876; Tom (ca > 1880); Mary Abston Edens, 8/6/1882; and Lou Abston Huffer, 9/23/1886. All > children were born in Willow Grove. Lou Abston Huffer was living in > Cookesville in the mid- 1970's with husband Allen. > In 1975 my GM, Mary W. Abston Phillips, gd of Lip and Amanda, along with > three of her daughters made a trip back to the area and visited the cemetery. > Apparently that was before the Lake was fully filled although they stated in > a chronicle of the visit: > We travceled to Willow Grove and Lillydale and of course ther is a very > beautiful lake that covers all of this now. We drove on to the old Abstyon > home place but the old house was now gone. (My GM remembered there bewing a > spring and a hill there and green apples with red stripes grew there that > were noted for their sweetness and were called Abston Apples.) Across from > the home place was a barn still standin that Tom Abston and some of the Edens > had built. They then trveld on to the cemetery and I am going to quote the > chronicle here as it may pin it down for you and you will know if it was > later moved. > "The cemetery was a very pretty place upon a hill. A tribute in itself to > those that were buried there. Below the hill of the old part were hundreds > of little white crosses marking the graves of those that had to be moved from > the burial plots that the lake was to cover. Ola told us that her husband > had made all of the crosses and marked each grave." > They made some pictures of the headstones and I remember seeing Amanda Sevier > Abston's headstone but don't remember Lip's, tho I'm pretty sure it was > there. > Incidentally, my family had always assumed that my GGM, Amanda Belle Davis > Abston had only two siblings- Mary Catherine Davis(b. 1858) and William T. > Davis (b. 1854), however the 1850 census shows (OV 327-181) DAVIS, Nelson > (44) Ruth (31) and Joseph (14). Joseph does not appear with the family in > the 1860 census tho he would be 24 and probably out on his own if alive. I > couldn't find him in the census and just wondered if he died between 1850 and > 1860. > Thnx for your help. > Rec Phillips > > > ==== TNOVERTO Mailing List ==== > OVERTON LIST ADMINISTRATPR: > [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >