When Keziah Whitecotton was born on November 21, 1808, in Campbell, Tennessee, her father, Aaron, was 30, and her mother, Nancy, was 22. She married Henry Thompson on October 10, 1833, in Tennessee and by 1847 she and Henry (along with her parents and other close families) had relocated to Reynolds County, MO.
They had four children during their marriage: Elizabeth, Mary Helen, George Washington, and Cecilia. During the Civil War she took food to the Confederate Solidiers camped on the hills of her farm. She and her son "Wash" were listed in a Union Report from Headquarters, Fort Patterson on March 21, 1865 to Col Beveridge as one of a "notorious rebel family" supporter in Reynolds County, MO and ordered to be immediately sent South. She died on November 6, 1887, in Reynolds County Missouri, having lived a long life of 78 years, and was buried there.
They had four children during their marriage: Elizabeth, Mary Helen, George Washington, and Cecilia. During the Civil War she took food to the Confederate Solidiers camped on the hills of her farm. She and her son "Wash" were listed in a Union Report from Headquarters, Fort Patterson on March 21, 1865 to Col Beveridge as one of a "notorious rebel family" supporter in Reynolds County, MO and ordered to be immediately sent South. She died on November 6, 1887, in Reynolds County Missouri, having lived a long life of 78 years, and was buried there.
When Keziah Whitecotton was born on November 21, 1808, in Campbell, Tennessee, her father, Aaron, was 30, and her mother, Nancy, was 22. She married Henry Thompson on October 10, 1833, in Tennessee and by 1847 she and Henry (along with her parents and other close families) had relocated to Reynolds County, MO.
They had four children during their marriage: Elizabeth, Mary Helen, George Washington, and Cecilia. During the Civil War she took food to the Confederate Solidiers camped on the hills of her farm. She and her son "Wash" were listed in a Union Report from Headquarters, Fort Patterson on March 21, 1865 to Col Beveridge as one of a "notorious rebel family" supporter in Reynolds County, MO and ordered to be immediately sent South. She died on November 6, 1887, in Reynolds County Missouri, having lived a long life of 78 years, and was buried there.
They had four children during their marriage: Elizabeth, Mary Helen, George Washington, and Cecilia. During the Civil War she took food to the Confederate Solidiers camped on the hills of her farm. She and her son "Wash" were listed in a Union Report from Headquarters, Fort Patterson on March 21, 1865 to Col Beveridge as one of a "notorious rebel family" supporter in Reynolds County, MO and ordered to be immediately sent South. She died on November 6, 1887, in Reynolds County Missouri, having lived a long life of 78 years, and was buried there.
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Helvey Cemetery is in a low area that often floods. The older stones have been moved a few times and are sometimes hard to find.
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