This is the monument for the gravestone that formerly read "Little N*gger." The original stone was not placed until 1980, when Bill McLaughlin purchased it to mark the site. The stone was changed to its current marker in 2004. It was decided that the word might at some point bring a lawsuit to the cemetery. The current gravestone was paid for by the Bar S Ranch boss; they wanted more accurate history that it was a man who worked on the Ranch.
The burial that almost caused a riot was that of a negro who got shot accidentally on the Z-L ranch. Usually a cow hand who was killed on a ranch was buried there. Green Ilgo, manager of the Z-L, was a very superstitious man, and refused to let the man be buried there, so he ordered the cowboys to take the body to Emma cemetery for burial. When the news got around, the citizens all but dug the body up to take it back to Green. However, the more sensible people of the time prevailed and the body still lies in the northeast corner of the graveyard, away from the other settlers. The people who later dug the grave for Old Uncle Billy Weatherby, a Yankee soldier, placed him in the same corner.
[Bio compiled from text written by Marcia Lockwood, Bettye Odom, and Linda Hughes]
The burial that almost caused a riot was that of a negro who got shot accidentally on the Z-L ranch. Usually a cow hand who was killed on a ranch was buried there. Green Ilgo, manager of the Z-L, was a very superstitious man, and refused to let the man be buried there, so he ordered the cowboys to take the body to Emma cemetery for burial. When the news got around, the citizens all but dug the body up to take it back to Green. However, the more sensible people of the time prevailed and the body still lies in the northeast corner of the graveyard, away from the other settlers. The people who later dug the grave for Old Uncle Billy Weatherby, a Yankee soldier, placed him in the same corner.
[Bio compiled from text written by Marcia Lockwood, Bettye Odom, and Linda Hughes]
This is the monument for the gravestone that formerly read "Little N*gger." The original stone was not placed until 1980, when Bill McLaughlin purchased it to mark the site. The stone was changed to its current marker in 2004. It was decided that the word might at some point bring a lawsuit to the cemetery. The current gravestone was paid for by the Bar S Ranch boss; they wanted more accurate history that it was a man who worked on the Ranch.
The burial that almost caused a riot was that of a negro who got shot accidentally on the Z-L ranch. Usually a cow hand who was killed on a ranch was buried there. Green Ilgo, manager of the Z-L, was a very superstitious man, and refused to let the man be buried there, so he ordered the cowboys to take the body to Emma cemetery for burial. When the news got around, the citizens all but dug the body up to take it back to Green. However, the more sensible people of the time prevailed and the body still lies in the northeast corner of the graveyard, away from the other settlers. The people who later dug the grave for Old Uncle Billy Weatherby, a Yankee soldier, placed him in the same corner.
[Bio compiled from text written by Marcia Lockwood, Bettye Odom, and Linda Hughes]
The burial that almost caused a riot was that of a negro who got shot accidentally on the Z-L ranch. Usually a cow hand who was killed on a ranch was buried there. Green Ilgo, manager of the Z-L, was a very superstitious man, and refused to let the man be buried there, so he ordered the cowboys to take the body to Emma cemetery for burial. When the news got around, the citizens all but dug the body up to take it back to Green. However, the more sensible people of the time prevailed and the body still lies in the northeast corner of the graveyard, away from the other settlers. The people who later dug the grave for Old Uncle Billy Weatherby, a Yankee soldier, placed him in the same corner.
[Bio compiled from text written by Marcia Lockwood, Bettye Odom, and Linda Hughes]
