Photo of Thomas Henry and Dollie Parlee Burgess' home, in Mountain View, ARK.
Taken by Fred and Otto and Albert Burgess.
Back of photo says, "Henry
Burgess' log home. Mountainview, ARK."
Parlee is burried in the Freedonia Cemetery, between Rushing and Mountainview,
ARK, off to east side of Hwy 9. (She died 1915.)
Elizabeth Burgess Gray is also burried there.
Thomas is burried in Wolf Cemetery, Maud, OLKA, 1916.
HillBilly Genealogy
Suzy Lee fell in love.
She planned to marry Joe.
She was so happy about it all, she told
her pappy so.
Pappy told her, "Suzie Gal"
you'll have to find another.
I'd just as soon yo maw don't know,
but Joe is yo half-brother.
So Suzie forgot about her Joe
and planned to marry Will.
But after tellin Pappy this,
he said "Ther's trouble still."
Your can't marry Will, my gal
and please don't tell yo mother, cause
Will and Joe and several mo
I know is yo half-brother."
But mama knew and said "Honey chile,
do what makes yo happy.
Marry Will or marry Joe,
You ain't no kin to Pappy!"
author unknown
Thanks to Fred Burgess, for sharing the above.
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Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
Author -Unknown
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