(Aug 28, concluded.)
The Arba cemetery lies behind the Friends church. The 1882 county history suggests that an Indian burial place was descecrated in order to make this cemetery, though it doesn’t say so in those words.
The Randolph County Historical Society has a camcorder video that was taken through a windshield while driving into the cemetery on this road. There is also an aerial view of the cemetery on that site, probably taken from Google Maps.
I looked for Parker gravestones, but if I had read the county history more thoroughly before I came here, I would have known better than to expect Thomas W. Parker’s grave here, nor that of his son Jesse. Thomas’s wife, Anna, is said to be buried here, but I presume it’s an unmarked grave. This rootsweb page doesn’t list her.
Another Parker gravestone, but not one I was looking for.
This unusual gravestone and the one below got my curiosity up. Who were P.F. and J.F.? Maybe their family couldn’t afford a regular gravestone. If so, they might also be the sort of people who were invisible to the ones writing the county history, and the sort of people I’d definitely like to learn more about. But I’m going to have to give it up for now. The gravestone list at the rootsweb site doesn’t help.
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