ON A WIND SWEPT HILL IN TREMONT, LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, TAZEWELL COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY SPONSORED A
CEMETERY WALK.
CEMETERY HAS NO RECORDS, BUT THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SHOW THAT HE IS BURIED HERE.
HE OPERATED A HORSEPOWERED MILL
TO GRIND THE GRAIN.
HE BROUGHT WITH HIM FROM
KENTUCKY WHERE HE HAD LIVED JUST
BEFORE COMING HERE A FAMILY OF
THREE BLACK.
ONE NIGHT, SLAVE HUNTERS CAME
THROUGH AND THEY WERE FROM
KENTUCKY.
THEY WERE PICKING UP SLAVES, OR
BLACKS WHEREVER THEY COULD AND
TAKING THEM BACK SOUTH AND
RESELLING THEM.
SO THEY CAME IN, THEY SOLD THE
FAMILY.
THAT REALLY GOT THE SETTLERS
HERE UPSET BECAUSE THEY WERE
AGAINST SLAVERY.
THEY TOOK OFF ON THEIR HORSES TO
CATCH UP WITH THEM, AND THEY
THOUGHT PROBABLY THEY ARE GOING
TO ST. LOUIS.
SO AS THEY CROSSED THE RIVER,
THE MISSISSIPPI AT ST. LOUIS ON
THE FERRY, THE BOAT PULLED UP
AND HERE WAS THIS FAMILY OF
MOSES.
SO TWO OF THEM KEPT THE SLAVE
TRADERS BUSY, AND THE OTHER ONE
WENT AND GOT THE SHERIFF.
SO THAT'S HOW THEY GOT THEM BACK
I WAS BORN IN GEORGIA IN 1783, BUT OUR FAMILY WHICH CON SIFTED OF TEN CHILDREN CAME TO OHIO
AND IN 1800'S, THEN THAT'S WHERE
I MET MY HUSBAND, JOHN, WHO WAS
A WEAVER BY TRADE.
I WAS MARRIED AT THE AGE OF 16.
JOHN AND I HAD TEN CHILDREN.
WHEN THE YOUNGEST CHILD WAS
BORN, WE DECIDED TO MIGRATE FROM
OHIO HERE IN TAZEWELL COUNTY.
WE RAISED OUR CHILDREN HERE.
TWO OF THE SONS, ONE OF WHICH
WAS SEIBURN.
SEIBURN IS ALSO BURIED HIM
WITHOUT A STONE.
HE DIED OF CANCER WHICH WAS A
PRETTY VIOLENT DEATH.
PEOPLE THINK IT WAS FROM CHEWING
TOBACCO BECAUSE A DIARY
INDICATES THAT HIS DAUGHTERS
WOULD SAY I LOVE MY FATHER VERY
MUCH, BUT I REALLY DON'T
APPRECIATE HIM SPITTING ALL OVER
THE FLOOR WITH TOBACCO.
HE DIED IN 1899.
HIS SON-IN-LAW WENT TO TREMONT,
BOUGHT THE COFFIN, CAME BACK AND
DUG THE GRAVE A DAY LATER, AND
THAT'S WHERE HE IS BURIED HERE.
I WAS -- I DIED IN 1852, AND MY
HUSBAND IN 1855, AND OUR STONES
ARE RIGHT THERE IN FRONT.
MR. FISHER WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE CON GOOD EVENING GRATION OF THE ANTIOCH CHURCH --
CONGREGATION OF THE ANTIOCH
CHURCH.
THE OFFICIALS WERE PIONEERS OF
TAZEWELL COUNTY, AND CAME TO
THIS AREA IN 1823.
THESE PEOPLE ARE ACTUAL PIONEERS
OF THIS AREA.
MR. FISHER WAS AN ASSESSOR FOR
THE TOWNSHIP THAT HE LIVED IN,
ELMGROVE TOWNSHIP.
HE HAD RELATIVES THAT RUN A
WOOLEN FACTORY.
IN FACT, STARTED THE FIRST
WOOLEN FABLING TRI FOR THE
COUNTY ACTUALLY BACK IN THE
1830'S, 1838 I BELIEVE IT WAS.
THOMAS AND MARY ANN ALLBRIGHT EADES CAME TO TAZEWELL COUNTY IN 1835.
FIVE OF THE SEVEN WERE BORN IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
OUR SON, JOSHUA, WASN'T WELL.
HE WAS A MERCHANT IN ATLANTA, IN
LOGAN COUNTY.
AT THAT TIME IT USED TO BE
TAZEWELL COUNTY.
HE WAS ENGAGED TO MINI SPENCER
FROM MALONE, NEW YORK.
HE PUT UP SUCH A BRAVE FIGHT,
AND HE WAS BOUND AND DETERMINED
HE WAS GOING TO WIN THAT OLD
DESTROYER CONSUMPTION, BUT HE
DIDN'T, AND HE DIDN'T GIVE UP
UNTIL THE LAST FEW DAYS.
HE MARRIED MINNIE ON JANUARY 21,
1859 AND DIED JAB JANUARY 23.
THEY WERE MARRIED TWO DAYS WHEN
HE DIED.
>> I WAS IN MY 80TH YEAR WHEN I
DIED THE 17TH OF OCTOBER, 1874.
EACH YEAR THE TAZEWELL COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY SER HAS A
WALK.
FOR THE DATE OF THE NEXT TAZEWELL COUNTY CEMETERY WALK CALL (309)477-3044.