(from Arkansas Family Historian, Mar-Apr 1962, "Some Pioneers at Rieff's Chapel" by Marian Brinson Lisman)
"(near here stood) the remains of Rieff's Chapel, which for many years served as a church until a cyclone destroyed it.
From this chapel in mid-April of 1853 Hannah Rieff was buried. She had lived 72 years and the preacher might have said of her life that it was a tapestry, woven with more bright colors than dark ones. She had triumphed over hardships of pioneering and had successfully reared six of eight children, two being lost young.
Hannah was born in North Carolina, the daughter of Henry Ross and a Miss Mitchell. Her father, a native of Ireland, fought in the Revolutionary War. He was guarding prisoners near Guilford Court House when the battle of the same name took place. Later he emigrated to Tennessee where he was one of the first settlers of Wilson County, and where, on December 23, 1799, he served as one of the magistrates who organized the first court for the new county. The meeting took place at the house of Capt. John Harpool, which was near Lebanon. It was at Lebanon in the mid-1790s that Andy Jackson set up one of his stores for settlers. This early mart dealt both in necessities and luxuries, including whiskey from Andy's own distillery.
"In the Rieff cemetery are many sandstone markers and several burial vaults. The vaults are made of native stone, the tops in one piece and the sides of beautiful symmetrical slabs quarried no doubt from the neighboring hills. One of them, lovingly placed in this sacred spot, moss covered and overgrown with lichens that glitter in the sunlight, discloses the following inscription: "Here lies Hannah - the wife of my youth - the mother of my children. Born Dec. 12, 1781 - Died Apr. 17, 1853. John Fieff."
"(near here stood) the remains of Rieff's Chapel, which for many years served as a church until a cyclone destroyed it.
From this chapel in mid-April of 1853 Hannah Rieff was buried. She had lived 72 years and the preacher might have said of her life that it was a tapestry, woven with more bright colors than dark ones. She had triumphed over hardships of pioneering and had successfully reared six of eight children, two being lost young.
Hannah was born in North Carolina, the daughter of Henry Ross and a Miss Mitchell. Her father, a native of Ireland, fought in the Revolutionary War. He was guarding prisoners near Guilford Court House when the battle of the same name took place. Later he emigrated to Tennessee where he was one of the first settlers of Wilson County, and where, on December 23, 1799, he served as one of the magistrates who organized the first court for the new county. The meeting took place at the house of Capt. John Harpool, which was near Lebanon. It was at Lebanon in the mid-1790s that Andy Jackson set up one of his stores for settlers. This early mart dealt both in necessities and luxuries, including whiskey from Andy's own distillery.
"In the Rieff cemetery are many sandstone markers and several burial vaults. The vaults are made of native stone, the tops in one piece and the sides of beautiful symmetrical slabs quarried no doubt from the neighboring hills. One of them, lovingly placed in this sacred spot, moss covered and overgrown with lichens that glitter in the sunlight, discloses the following inscription: "Here lies Hannah - the wife of my youth - the mother of my children. Born Dec. 12, 1781 - Died Apr. 17, 1853. John Fieff."
(from Arkansas Family Historian, Mar-Apr 1962, "Some Pioneers at Rieff's Chapel" by Marian Brinson Lisman)
"(near here stood) the remains of Rieff's Chapel, which for many years served as a church until a cyclone destroyed it.
From this chapel in mid-April of 1853 Hannah Rieff was buried. She had lived 72 years and the preacher might have said of her life that it was a tapestry, woven with more bright colors than dark ones. She had triumphed over hardships of pioneering and had successfully reared six of eight children, two being lost young.
Hannah was born in North Carolina, the daughter of Henry Ross and a Miss Mitchell. Her father, a native of Ireland, fought in the Revolutionary War. He was guarding prisoners near Guilford Court House when the battle of the same name took place. Later he emigrated to Tennessee where he was one of the first settlers of Wilson County, and where, on December 23, 1799, he served as one of the magistrates who organized the first court for the new county. The meeting took place at the house of Capt. John Harpool, which was near Lebanon. It was at Lebanon in the mid-1790s that Andy Jackson set up one of his stores for settlers. This early mart dealt both in necessities and luxuries, including whiskey from Andy's own distillery.
"In the Rieff cemetery are many sandstone markers and several burial vaults. The vaults are made of native stone, the tops in one piece and the sides of beautiful symmetrical slabs quarried no doubt from the neighboring hills. One of them, lovingly placed in this sacred spot, moss covered and overgrown with lichens that glitter in the sunlight, discloses the following inscription: "Here lies Hannah - the wife of my youth - the mother of my children. Born Dec. 12, 1781 - Died Apr. 17, 1853. John Fieff."
"(near here stood) the remains of Rieff's Chapel, which for many years served as a church until a cyclone destroyed it.
From this chapel in mid-April of 1853 Hannah Rieff was buried. She had lived 72 years and the preacher might have said of her life that it was a tapestry, woven with more bright colors than dark ones. She had triumphed over hardships of pioneering and had successfully reared six of eight children, two being lost young.
Hannah was born in North Carolina, the daughter of Henry Ross and a Miss Mitchell. Her father, a native of Ireland, fought in the Revolutionary War. He was guarding prisoners near Guilford Court House when the battle of the same name took place. Later he emigrated to Tennessee where he was one of the first settlers of Wilson County, and where, on December 23, 1799, he served as one of the magistrates who organized the first court for the new county. The meeting took place at the house of Capt. John Harpool, which was near Lebanon. It was at Lebanon in the mid-1790s that Andy Jackson set up one of his stores for settlers. This early mart dealt both in necessities and luxuries, including whiskey from Andy's own distillery.
"In the Rieff cemetery are many sandstone markers and several burial vaults. The vaults are made of native stone, the tops in one piece and the sides of beautiful symmetrical slabs quarried no doubt from the neighboring hills. One of them, lovingly placed in this sacred spot, moss covered and overgrown with lichens that glitter in the sunlight, discloses the following inscription: "Here lies Hannah - the wife of my youth - the mother of my children. Born Dec. 12, 1781 - Died Apr. 17, 1853. John Fieff."
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