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Timmons Cemetery, 89-1 Summary Report, page 137
E-MAIL FROM WANDA YELVERTON OF TAYLOR LAKE VILLAGE, TEXAS (September 13, 2002) Dear John, Ned showed me the e-mail from you and I was tickled to learn that you were doing the cemeteries on the Arsenal. I have a connection there. In 1970, when we lived in Huntsville, Mother learned that a relative was buried in the Timmons cemetery and she, Melody and I set out to find her grave. We stopped at the Guard Shack and asked the guard if he knew where the Timmons Cemetery was. He said,"Oh, yes, we have seances there." Needless to say, Mother and I were not too impressed, but we did want to find the cemetery, so I asked if he could give me directions to get there. About that time another guard came up so the first told me that he was finished for the day and would be glad to let us follow him to the location. When we got there, he asked if anyone in the cemetery was a blood relative, and I told him “Yes, Margaret L.Finch was her name”. He then told me if I would give him anything that belonged to me, he could get her to "come out" faster! At that, I explained that I did not have anything to do with the occult, and I would not help him to be. He left very disappointed. We went up, and I took pictures of the brick enclosure, but my Margaret Finch did not have a marker. Several months passed, and I was at a dry cleaners at the corner of Drake and the Parkway, and would you believe, I met him inside. He recognized me and began to ask for even a Kleenex to use at the seances. I again told him no, and he left. Here is what I have on the Timmons: Hugh Finch, my gggg uncle, Margaret's father, and Elizabeth Quay his wife moved to Limestone or Madison Co. AL about 1815. They had a daughter Catharine Quay (born 1800 in SC) who married John Timmons, who was born in 1790. Hugh Finch died 13 Oct 1842, and his wife died after 1850. John Timmons died Nov 1, 1845. Catharine died Aug 12, 1840. John Timmons and Catharine had William Hardie, b. Aug 22, 1838, died Jan. 16, 1906. He married Annie Eliza, b. July 6, 1835, died June 7, 1905. William Hardie was raised by his Aunt Margaret Finch, and she died in his home Aug. 3, 1899. (So says the obituary.) William Hardie and Annie Eliza had Kitty Quay, b. Nov 11, 1861, died June 18, 1862. Then Eugene, b. Dec. 22, 1865, died Feb. 21, 1870. Next, J.H., b. Feb. 6, 1868, died Apr. 11, 1899. Wm. Hardie and Eliza named a daughter Margaret Ann, b. Oct 1833, died Aug 6, 1836. The last daughter, Amanda E., died Nov. 11, 1844. 137 - (3086)