“They hadn't been there long when Father took sick and just kept getting worse. It was a kidney ailment [Bright’s disease] and they thought the water in Pond Creek was what caused it. She was 8 years old at the time, she remembered still him sitting in a chair and his feet and legs were real swollen and the water was seeping through the skin. Her mother put newspapers under his feet so that the water would not soak into the rug. As he became worse, he said he wanted to go back to Missouri, but Mother knew that she and the children wouldn't be able to go, so his brother [Frank David?] from Missouri came to Pond Creek and took him back on the train. The day they arrived he passed away.”
"He was buried in the Cat Creek cemetery near Melbourne, Missouri, with Trenton and Gilman City near-by towns. She said that in 1940 she, Uncle Jim [Walker] and my Dad [Herman Everhart] found it - just a wooden marker that said "Dock" and that was all. She said it was rickety and may not even be there now.”
Hildred Greenall, the daughter of Arch and Emma Beverlin, helped Maxine Lowry locate Calvin Luther Everhart's grave and placed a headstone on it in 1992.
“They hadn't been there long when Father took sick and just kept getting worse. It was a kidney ailment [Bright’s disease] and they thought the water in Pond Creek was what caused it. She was 8 years old at the time, she remembered still him sitting in a chair and his feet and legs were real swollen and the water was seeping through the skin. Her mother put newspapers under his feet so that the water would not soak into the rug. As he became worse, he said he wanted to go back to Missouri, but Mother knew that she and the children wouldn't be able to go, so his brother [Frank David?] from Missouri came to Pond Creek and took him back on the train. The day they arrived he passed away.”
"He was buried in the Cat Creek cemetery near Melbourne, Missouri, with Trenton and Gilman City near-by towns. She said that in 1940 she, Uncle Jim [Walker] and my Dad [Herman Everhart] found it - just a wooden marker that said "Dock" and that was all. She said it was rickety and may not even be there now.”
Hildred Greenall, the daughter of Arch and Emma Beverlin, helped Maxine Lowry locate Calvin Luther Everhart's grave and placed a headstone on it in 1992.
Bio by: Mike Everhart
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Born in Indiana; 1860 Census of DeKalb Co., Indiana lists him as the son of Jacob & Ann Everhart
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