John Carroll Anthony, my grandfather, was living with my dad, Henry Anthony, and his brothers around Humboldt Tennessee in the 1930's.
In the summer of 1936 he traveled by bus to Mississippi County Arkansas. He went to live with his daughter, Campie Imler's family and help them pick cotton that fall. Campie's family was sharecropping on the Number Nine Plantation north of Blytheville Arkansas near the Missouri line.
According to my Dad, Grandpa was still in good health for his age that was about 72 at the time.
I've still got the old letter that he wrote back to my Uncle Frank Anthony telling him about the trip to Arkansas and about the crops and the family.
Later that fall after they had started to pick cotton, Grandpa started to get on a wagon and slipped, injuring his leg. The injury caused blood clots and he died from clots to his lungs/heart a few days later. He was buried in the Number Nine Cemetery on the plantation where they farmed.
Several years ago I sent for a copy of John Carroll Anthony's death certificate and found out where he was buried. His grave is not marked. The funeral home that conducted his service is still in business, I contacted them but their records don't go back that far. I tried to find out the location of his grave as I wanted to put a marker on it but there are no records that I could find for the unmarked graves.
I made a trip over there several years ago and visited the Number Nine cemetery and also the Leachville Cemetery at Leachville Arkansas where Campie Imler and some of her family are buried. Another son of John Carroll Anthony, Lowell Anthony is also buried there beside his sister, Campie Imler in an unmarked grave.
In the summer of 1936 he traveled by bus to Mississippi County Arkansas. He went to live with his daughter, Campie Imler's family and help them pick cotton that fall. Campie's family was sharecropping on the Number Nine Plantation north of Blytheville Arkansas near the Missouri line.
According to my Dad, Grandpa was still in good health for his age that was about 72 at the time.
I've still got the old letter that he wrote back to my Uncle Frank Anthony telling him about the trip to Arkansas and about the crops and the family.
Later that fall after they had started to pick cotton, Grandpa started to get on a wagon and slipped, injuring his leg. The injury caused blood clots and he died from clots to his lungs/heart a few days later. He was buried in the Number Nine Cemetery on the plantation where they farmed.
Several years ago I sent for a copy of John Carroll Anthony's death certificate and found out where he was buried. His grave is not marked. The funeral home that conducted his service is still in business, I contacted them but their records don't go back that far. I tried to find out the location of his grave as I wanted to put a marker on it but there are no records that I could find for the unmarked graves.
I made a trip over there several years ago and visited the Number Nine cemetery and also the Leachville Cemetery at Leachville Arkansas where Campie Imler and some of her family are buried. Another son of John Carroll Anthony, Lowell Anthony is also buried there beside his sister, Campie Imler in an unmarked grave.
John Carroll Anthony, my grandfather, was living with my dad, Henry Anthony, and his brothers around Humboldt Tennessee in the 1930's.
In the summer of 1936 he traveled by bus to Mississippi County Arkansas. He went to live with his daughter, Campie Imler's family and help them pick cotton that fall. Campie's family was sharecropping on the Number Nine Plantation north of Blytheville Arkansas near the Missouri line.
According to my Dad, Grandpa was still in good health for his age that was about 72 at the time.
I've still got the old letter that he wrote back to my Uncle Frank Anthony telling him about the trip to Arkansas and about the crops and the family.
Later that fall after they had started to pick cotton, Grandpa started to get on a wagon and slipped, injuring his leg. The injury caused blood clots and he died from clots to his lungs/heart a few days later. He was buried in the Number Nine Cemetery on the plantation where they farmed.
Several years ago I sent for a copy of John Carroll Anthony's death certificate and found out where he was buried. His grave is not marked. The funeral home that conducted his service is still in business, I contacted them but their records don't go back that far. I tried to find out the location of his grave as I wanted to put a marker on it but there are no records that I could find for the unmarked graves.
I made a trip over there several years ago and visited the Number Nine cemetery and also the Leachville Cemetery at Leachville Arkansas where Campie Imler and some of her family are buried. Another son of John Carroll Anthony, Lowell Anthony is also buried there beside his sister, Campie Imler in an unmarked grave.
In the summer of 1936 he traveled by bus to Mississippi County Arkansas. He went to live with his daughter, Campie Imler's family and help them pick cotton that fall. Campie's family was sharecropping on the Number Nine Plantation north of Blytheville Arkansas near the Missouri line.
According to my Dad, Grandpa was still in good health for his age that was about 72 at the time.
I've still got the old letter that he wrote back to my Uncle Frank Anthony telling him about the trip to Arkansas and about the crops and the family.
Later that fall after they had started to pick cotton, Grandpa started to get on a wagon and slipped, injuring his leg. The injury caused blood clots and he died from clots to his lungs/heart a few days later. He was buried in the Number Nine Cemetery on the plantation where they farmed.
Several years ago I sent for a copy of John Carroll Anthony's death certificate and found out where he was buried. His grave is not marked. The funeral home that conducted his service is still in business, I contacted them but their records don't go back that far. I tried to find out the location of his grave as I wanted to put a marker on it but there are no records that I could find for the unmarked graves.
I made a trip over there several years ago and visited the Number Nine cemetery and also the Leachville Cemetery at Leachville Arkansas where Campie Imler and some of her family are buried. Another son of John Carroll Anthony, Lowell Anthony is also buried there beside his sister, Campie Imler in an unmarked grave.
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