The daughter of Alexander Hamilton & Martha Jo (Smith) Armstrong of TN, late of Yell Co AR, Marietta died, aged 11 yrs. It is possible, but cannot be verified, that she is buried in Eureka Springs Cemetery (aka IOOF Cemetery). Please see below.
Eureka Springs during 1880 was a bustling town, since Feb of that year it was incorporated as a city. Based on Judge J B Saunders' claim that the spring water of Eureka could cure disease, thousands flocked to the city, setting up tents and shanties.
Sources:
1870 Census - Shoal Creek, Logan Co AR, 24 Jun 1870
1880 Census - Eureka Springs, Carroll Co AR, 16 Jun 1880
"William Armstrong Descendants" by Thomas Garrett, Clarksville AR.
Note:
Marietta's death record has not been located. Arkansas Vital Records has death records dating from 1 Feb 1914 through the present. A limited number of death records are available for deaths occurring between 1881 and 1914 in Little Rock and Fort Smith. The Arkansas History Commission keeps an alphabetical listing of deaths in Arkansas dating from 1914 through 1949, but they do not have the actual death records. This family had little money and a tombstone would have been something they could not afford.
Eureka Springs Cemetery:
http://eureka.news/cemetery-getting-new-life/
"There are 4,800 graves in the cemetery, more than double the current population of Eureka Springs. .... the earliest record of a grave is from 1880, but it's possible there were earlier graves as many are not marked.
As people came here to be healed by the springs, some didn't make it and they were buried," Stevens said; "Some families evidently weren't able to afford a gravestone. We have 165 people buried in the potter's field for people who couldn't afford a grave and more who were buried in pauper's graves. The difference between a potter's field as opposed to paupers' graves is that they were not allowed to keep records on the paupers' graves. That was a law."
Eureka Springs during 1880 was a bustling town, since Feb of that year it was incorporated as a city. Based on Judge J B Saunders' claim that the spring water of Eureka could cure disease, thousands flocked to the city, setting up tents and shanties.
Sources:
1870 Census - Shoal Creek, Logan Co AR, 24 Jun 1870
1880 Census - Eureka Springs, Carroll Co AR, 16 Jun 1880
"William Armstrong Descendants" by Thomas Garrett, Clarksville AR.
Note:
Marietta's death record has not been located. Arkansas Vital Records has death records dating from 1 Feb 1914 through the present. A limited number of death records are available for deaths occurring between 1881 and 1914 in Little Rock and Fort Smith. The Arkansas History Commission keeps an alphabetical listing of deaths in Arkansas dating from 1914 through 1949, but they do not have the actual death records. This family had little money and a tombstone would have been something they could not afford.
Eureka Springs Cemetery:
http://eureka.news/cemetery-getting-new-life/
"There are 4,800 graves in the cemetery, more than double the current population of Eureka Springs. .... the earliest record of a grave is from 1880, but it's possible there were earlier graves as many are not marked.
As people came here to be healed by the springs, some didn't make it and they were buried," Stevens said; "Some families evidently weren't able to afford a gravestone. We have 165 people buried in the potter's field for people who couldn't afford a grave and more who were buried in pauper's graves. The difference between a potter's field as opposed to paupers' graves is that they were not allowed to keep records on the paupers' graves. That was a law."
The daughter of Alexander Hamilton & Martha Jo (Smith) Armstrong of TN, late of Yell Co AR, Marietta died, aged 11 yrs. It is possible, but cannot be verified, that she is buried in Eureka Springs Cemetery (aka IOOF Cemetery). Please see below.
Eureka Springs during 1880 was a bustling town, since Feb of that year it was incorporated as a city. Based on Judge J B Saunders' claim that the spring water of Eureka could cure disease, thousands flocked to the city, setting up tents and shanties.
Sources:
1870 Census - Shoal Creek, Logan Co AR, 24 Jun 1870
1880 Census - Eureka Springs, Carroll Co AR, 16 Jun 1880
"William Armstrong Descendants" by Thomas Garrett, Clarksville AR.
Note:
Marietta's death record has not been located. Arkansas Vital Records has death records dating from 1 Feb 1914 through the present. A limited number of death records are available for deaths occurring between 1881 and 1914 in Little Rock and Fort Smith. The Arkansas History Commission keeps an alphabetical listing of deaths in Arkansas dating from 1914 through 1949, but they do not have the actual death records. This family had little money and a tombstone would have been something they could not afford.
Eureka Springs Cemetery:
http://eureka.news/cemetery-getting-new-life/
"There are 4,800 graves in the cemetery, more than double the current population of Eureka Springs. .... the earliest record of a grave is from 1880, but it's possible there were earlier graves as many are not marked.
As people came here to be healed by the springs, some didn't make it and they were buried," Stevens said; "Some families evidently weren't able to afford a gravestone. We have 165 people buried in the potter's field for people who couldn't afford a grave and more who were buried in pauper's graves. The difference between a potter's field as opposed to paupers' graves is that they were not allowed to keep records on the paupers' graves. That was a law."
Eureka Springs during 1880 was a bustling town, since Feb of that year it was incorporated as a city. Based on Judge J B Saunders' claim that the spring water of Eureka could cure disease, thousands flocked to the city, setting up tents and shanties.
Sources:
1870 Census - Shoal Creek, Logan Co AR, 24 Jun 1870
1880 Census - Eureka Springs, Carroll Co AR, 16 Jun 1880
"William Armstrong Descendants" by Thomas Garrett, Clarksville AR.
Note:
Marietta's death record has not been located. Arkansas Vital Records has death records dating from 1 Feb 1914 through the present. A limited number of death records are available for deaths occurring between 1881 and 1914 in Little Rock and Fort Smith. The Arkansas History Commission keeps an alphabetical listing of deaths in Arkansas dating from 1914 through 1949, but they do not have the actual death records. This family had little money and a tombstone would have been something they could not afford.
Eureka Springs Cemetery:
http://eureka.news/cemetery-getting-new-life/
"There are 4,800 graves in the cemetery, more than double the current population of Eureka Springs. .... the earliest record of a grave is from 1880, but it's possible there were earlier graves as many are not marked.
As people came here to be healed by the springs, some didn't make it and they were buried," Stevens said; "Some families evidently weren't able to afford a gravestone. We have 165 people buried in the potter's field for people who couldn't afford a grave and more who were buried in pauper's graves. The difference between a potter's field as opposed to paupers' graves is that they were not allowed to keep records on the paupers' graves. That was a law."
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