The Man With Three Wives In The Cemetery In The Woods

@AdventuresIntoHistory 4 years ago

This is part 2 of the video I posted yesterday. In this video we visit yet another man and his three wives who are buried in this cemetery. Tragically some of the false tombs appear to have been busted open. Fortunately they were the commonly seen false tombs and not true above ground burials. (I often get asked on my YT channel whether these graves are actually above ground or not, and they are quite often false tombs. I have only seen one true above ground burial in my area - the Muscogee, Harris, Stewart County areas. I doubt that it was the only one around they just aren’t common here.) Anyway, here we visit an early Marion County settler - Benajah Peacock. Interestingly noted is that this grave site used to be behind a home (as noted in the obituary I read) and today no trace remains of that home. The inscription on Benajah Peacock’s tombstone reads: BENAJAH PEACOCK AGE 20 YRS. 9 MOS. 28 DAYS MARRIED PENELOPE HERING AGE 15 YRS. 7 MOS. 11 DAYS MAR. 1, 1835 AT THE AGE OF 28 YRS. 9 MOS. 11 DAYS MARRIED ELIZABETH MURRY AGE 18 YRS. 10 MOS. FEB. 14, 1843 AT THE AGE OF 30 YRS. 7 MOS. 12 DAYS MARRIED ELEANOR P. THOMPSON AGE 17 YRS. 7 MOS. 2 DAYS DEC. 15, 1844 BORN MAY 3, 1814 DIED FEB. 3, 1901 AGE 86 YRS. 9 MOS. Support Sidestep Adventures: patreon.com/SidestepAdventures Announcing the new Patreon members only Facebook group! Visit our Patreon for more details..... My flashlights: bit.ly/2ZkatOt Wukong Magnets who provided me with a few magnets for my channels sent me a discount code to pass along to my subscribers.... The code: Sidestep16 You get 16% off using that code. www.magnetfishingwukong.com/

@tracyparry8596 4 years ago

It's so wonderful to see another who likes to look around old cemeteries. You are respectful too. I too like to see who was alive so long ago. And my favorite headstones are the ones that are so detailed with that person's life. I personally find it calming to reflect on who lived before us. It helps me when life gets super crazy. Thank you for showing us these interesting graves!

@patriciakarber1260 4 years ago

I admire what your doing and used to do some of this with my daughter and son in law. When I had my real knees. Lol I have a book I've inherited, printed in 1971, that was called History in Headstones. It only covers our County in Arkansas. The fake above ground crypts must be common for your area. A set of grandparents who died in the late 1800's has a huge double rock crypt even though they are 6 feet under. He was an early physician in the area. How can you get a Confederate marker in a private cemetery? He had an elaborate headstone that had been vandalized and repaired. It was in poor shape 15 years ago. He was surgeon general of the Choctaw Militia during the Civil war. He was only in Arkansas grieving his wife and got caught up in the mess. The charter burned in 1959 but we have a copy of where it was filed in Adair county Oklahoma. He also "Americianized" our very German name. In the same cemetery someone got the wild idea of replacing the fieldstones near the entrance to the cemetery where the slaves were buried. I remember them as having some names before. It's called the "Dripping Springs" cemetery in Crawford County. I'm a young retired pediatric RN with part of a Historic Interpretation degree. I can see the family doing this again after covid is over. I did share with my daughter and nearly 14 year old granddaughter. On the deaths, there's a video on YouTube called the "Forgotten Epidemic". The epidemic was Tuberculosis. My great grandmother died from pulmonary TB in I think, in 1905. My paternal grandfather died in 1944 from miliary TB in his bones. Many of my paternal grandmother's nieces fought TB in the 30's. The cemetery my great grandparents are buried in is called the Liberty or Liberty Hill cemetery. The address is in Evansville Arkansas but it's located in Natural Dam. I have a family picture prior to my great grandmother's death. I can't recall the actual number of siblings she had but all survived except one sister who "caught her gown tail on fire " when she was 6. She was the first interned in the cemetery. Beautiful wrought iron fence, well maintained and continues to be used for burials.

@mcwatersd 4 years ago

What an awesome story.His wives were so young, which I know was common back then.Its too bad the graves are so damaged. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤

@AC-qi9wo 4 years ago

My daughter's girl scout troop. would go out every Memorial day weekend and clean the grave stones, and gave all the veterans, of all wars, two flag's, one time we found a father, and daughter she was a nurse, and I want to say he a Captain in WW2, buried next to each other his said father, and her's said daughter, very somber but very rewarding for these girls, to see and read each grave marker, and to give the grave stones a good cleaning, with the proper equipment..

@patmccamy4126 4 years ago

Hi! Love your show! I'm originally from New Hampshire but have lived in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and now Ohio. Will move again next chance I get. BUT I wanted to tell you the true story of my Great Grandfather Pete up in New Hampshire. He was married 3 times and outlived all 3 wives! He married the first one and when she died he married her SISTER, when she died he married the other SISTER! You heard right! He married 3 sisters!! I guess when you find a good thing you stick with it!!!!! I'm trying to dig up some history on him. Thanks for your show and keep up the great work! I also have a fascination with cemeteries! Pat

@karyzzmatic 4 years ago

Here's some additional info on his family line... the first two wives probably died in childbirth. The first wife had five children, the second only one and the last wife had six: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Peacock-502

@tacocin 4 years ago

Excellent video! Loved how you were able to bring perspective to that era. Indeed ... multiple wives and marrying young girls was common place back then. The obituary reading was fantastic!

@tmcgee1614 4 years ago

I will never understand the act of vandalism in places like this. What is the point?

@Bronwen597 4 years ago

Montana has some great old cemeteries. I always enjoy exploring them. Thank you, I enjoyed this video.

@annebell7274 4 years ago

Its lovely to walk round when its so peaceful. Such a lovely sunny day. Will you be going back to this one ? It does make a beautiful difference when the grass iz kept. So sad that those 2 grave tops were bashed. Im just so pleased that the bodies were buried underground. 🌳💚💚🌳

@stubs1227 4 years ago

I've been in the building trade for let's just say many decades. You have a iron fence surrounding masonary graves. Lightning is very destructive to masonary things like that. I've had to repair so many old chimneys over the years. Just think about the iron fence attracts.

@lynnebunning7273 4 years ago

I've just started watching your videos & fine them fascinating. It's like having a history lesson. I love the respect you show to those that lay in their resting place. I find it sad that they are not looked after by a governing body of some sort. I do know that to restore oldgraves there is a great deal of red tape. I'm Australian & my ancestors are buried in the old Lillydale cementry in Victoria. My uncle inquired to the governing trust. The cost & red tape to go through was just too expensive. Cheers Lyn🇦🇺🐨🦘👍

@joanhamilton2651 4 years ago

It's all just a moment in their lives. Thank you for this adventure

@sheryldavis1146 4 years ago

Beautifully told, thanks. A reminder that each generation had their own stories and lived their lives as best they could through the challenges, joys, tears, courage and survival.