Ann Eliza McCarver--Story and Grave

     The story is that the family of T.J. McCarver and his wife Ann Eliza were passing through

in a wagon.  It is not known if they had other children but she was pregnant and had her baby 

boy during a heavy rain.  The baby lived but she died.  The water was so high that they could 

not get to a cemetery to bury her so they buried her on the only high ground nearby.  Later, 

my grandfather Kirkpatrick bought the land and built his house near the grave.  Sometime about 

1950, the grandson of that baby boy came looking for his grandmother's grave.  After visiting 

it, he came back and placed a marble headstone but the weather, lichen and cattle have broken 

it and almost destroyed the information it held.  One of the Cribbs family who bought the 

property from Grandpa had taken a sandstone and carved the information on it.  Time is taking 

the toll on it too.  The current owners, Larry and Cathy Cribbs are planning to put their home 

on the site of Grandpa's old house and to fence and cleanup the brush and weeds around the sad 

little grave.  They have copied the information and plan to have a pewter plaque made with the 

details and place a wroght iron fence around the rock covered grave.


    Thank you Larry and Cathy and Larry's mother, now Mrs. Walter Timmons, for taking me to 

the grave site and helping me to get these pictures and the story.  It is good that someone 

still cares even when she was not one of your own.