From: ECol91234@aol.com
Subject: Jarrett's possible burial site
Date: 1999-07-27 22:35:54
Dear Dutton Cousins, In one of Josephs's e-mail yesterday he mentioned that he now believes that Jarrett and Charity Dutton migrated to Walker Co. and that they probably died there. I heard from David Price, a descendant of Luther Dutton (Zachariah and M. E. Rushing Dutton> Simeon Dutton & Adeline Stewart> Luther Dutton and Bertha Bailey > Norman Lecil Dutton & Juanita Duncan> Veretta Dutton & Bunkie Price). Darlene Cole had answered his inquiry online. I had forwarded David the section of Joseph's recent comments on Jarrett's probable migration. He responded with the following: "Also you wrote about Jarrett being buried in Walker County or somewhere else in Alabama. Did you know of the old graveyard down on 69 hwy by the double bridges below Smith Dam. There are several old graves there. I used to go down with Luther Dutton, my gtgrandpa as a kid; it is really grown over and hard to get to. About 95% of the graves were unmarked when I was a child. My uncle told me that a man had gone there and took the stone slabs off of the graves and stone headstones to make a stone wall at his home. The police were called but would not do anything as they were too "busy" so none of them may be marked now. I have not been to it in several years but plan to go this fall and try to clean up and do some research. My gtgrandma Luther's wife, Bertha Bailey still knows several names of people buried there. If yuou don't have any info on this let me know and I will try my best to find out." Sounds to me like a good possibility. Wonder if back that far there were any records kept anywhere for burials??? Most of those old cemeteries likely did not sell plots so there would be no deeds filed or anything like that. Likely there aren't other records or we would know more about who was buried in the unmarked graves everywhere. Any ideas, except looking at obituaries in the Daily Mountain Eagle. Great grandmother Bertha Bailey would be a good source, of course, for what she remembers. Just thought I would share this. David, let us know what you find out anything. Eula