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Moore - Landman Cemetery, 46-1 Summary Report, page 50
the ground breaking for Horton School. According to interview info from another Horton family source (Pearl Higgenbotham), Yancy (born 1845) gave "the first acre of land" to build the school. Yancy and also his father were called Savoy.
CEMETERY: Pearl H. recorded in her small notebook that the following names under the heading of Horton's cemetery:
Deceased daughter of Ophelia Horton, died age 11, 1925, Madkin Mts. in Silver
Hill, Sam Moore Cemetery
1. Maria Russel
Ernest
2. Sophia Horton
3. Maria Jacobs
Langford Horton--age 9 mo (note: on the small note book, to the far right, across from this line and the one above is a note saying Berton Rd Cemetery, Pond Beat)
Jacobs
Joiner
David Bailey Sr--neighbor, last buried
King
Bell
Pecola (writing uncertain) Turner
Fannie Robinson
Boby Boy Roh...
Otto Turner
John Crimes
Pearl said "our cemetery was mostly on Frank Jacobs side but it was at the end of that road by the school . The raod that divided the land went down to the school, was was off the only main road that went through Pond Beat that took you all the way to Whitesburg Drive. NOTE: Today, part of this route is along Buxton Road, but then the road was changed. This is evidenced in looking at the 1928 road map versus the arsenal map today.
SILVER HILLS--Pearl said ther was a church and a school over in Mullins Flat. Was an orginal church (called Cedar Grove Church) on the mountain, then they built a church in Pond Beat and called it Cedar Grove Church. The original church was near a community cemetery--now called the Horton/Joiner. Nothing but trees and rocks where the church was today. (This is straight from my notes--I don't know if this connected to Silver Hill--or whether she skipped back to talking about Pond Beat again, which is what it seems like.)
Cowan Cemetery- "that cemetery was in a different community--but it was on Papa's (Andy Cowan's) land."
Pearl's mother had two siblings: Joseph and Oscar Cowan. Others had died before that.
50 - (1981)