Forth Cemetery Headstones

Forth Cemetery Headstones

There was a great deal of attention given to the family stone of Robert T. but there were many other stones in the cemetery. Like the stone of John and Frances CHAPMAN Forth. This stone was a large stone deeply buried and only Frances’ side was visible. We had to dig it out of the ground and even found the top cap that had been missing when we dug it up.

John Forth side reads

Born Aug 1, 1833

Died June 13, 1868

33y 10m 18d

Frances Stone reads

Oct 14, 1832

Her death date Sept 3, 1907 was never added and should be.

We leveled the base but the top stone was too heavy to lift onto the base by hand. This stone lays on it side waiting to be placed on it’s base.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,

Yea sayeth the spirit they shall rest,

From their labors and their works do follow them.

John and Frances were the parents of four children Mary Ann, Nancy Jane, Amanda and Levi. Nancy Jane and Levi are buried in the cemetery.

Nancy Jane Forth married Joseph Smith King Jan 27, 1876.

Her stone reads..

Nancy J.

Wife of

J. S. King

Born

Feb 14, 1859

Died

Mar 20, 1882

This stone has a scroll on top that is unreadable and above her name is artwork that is hard to see and my camera did not capture. We knew we had the right base for the stone because the steal rod was still intact and the base had a hole for the rod.

The second child of John and Frances buried in Forth cemetery is Levi Forth. Levi was not a pleasant fellow and was not well liked and for good reason. He was a thief and a bully and in the end he beat his wife Clara with a club and slit her throat from ear to ear. It is said that he committed suicide the same day by slitting his own throat. Levi’s grave is said to be unmarked but while we searched for headstones we found an area, off by itself that was the size of a grave that just under the soil had red clay bricks covering it. Michael remembered a southern custom where red clay was placed over someone who was considered truly evil so that they could not return to walk the earth. This was the only area where these bricks were found. We truly believe that this is Levi’s unmarked grave.

A little ways from the crumbling base on the right hand side of the picture is the area where we found Levi’s grave. This crumbling base is unmarked and we never found a headstone to match. That does not mean that there is not more stones to be found.

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