Temple Elliott was the son of Elliott Hickman and Nancy Isbell; the husband of Sarah Elinor Davis. Temple was buried on the family homestead. To my knowledge there are only eight burials in this small family cemetery. I believe most of the graves also have foot markers.
On December 25, 1851, Temple Hickman went into the woods on government land to get wood to burn for the house he had built for his family eleven years before in Lawrence Co., Mo. He failed to come back on time and his wife Sallie became alarmed. She thought possibly he had stopped at neighbor Baldwin's to see about some shoes being made. To make sure she sent her daughter Julia to see about the shoes. When she returned and dropped the shoes on the floor, Sallie's hear sank. Soon the team of oxen came pulling the tongue of the wagon. The neighbors were notified by William. Tom and Josh Baldwin went in search of Temple. They found him on a partly loaded wagon, dead. There was no evidence of foul play. He no doubt had died of heart trouble as he had had trouble with his heart before this. The team had tried to go home but had hubbed a tree and had become nervous and trampled the ground until they broke the wagon tongue out. Then they went home. It was a cold winter night with much snow falling. Sallie Elinor Davis Hickman was left a widow at age thirty-one with five children, the oldest fourteen and the youngest two. Then began her struggle with poverty, fortunately she had three (sic) brothers living close by. [EDWIN and ELENDER WEBBER HICKMAN - Some Progenitors and Descendants. Early Pioneers of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri and Utah. By Hope A. Hilton, Third Edition August, 1978, page 96]
Note: Sarah "Sallie" actually had two brothers, William Riley and Harden Houston Davis.
On December 25, 1851, Temple Hickman went into the woods on government land to get wood to burn for the house he had built for his family eleven years before in Lawrence Co., Mo. He failed to come back on time and his wife Sallie became alarmed. She thought possibly he had stopped at neighbor Baldwin's to see about some shoes being made. To make sure she sent her daughter Julia to see about the shoes. When she returned and dropped the shoes on the floor, Sallie's hear sank. Soon the team of oxen came pulling the tongue of the wagon. The neighbors were notified by William. Tom and Josh Baldwin went in search of Temple. They found him on a partly loaded wagon, dead. There was no evidence of foul play. He no doubt had died of heart trouble as he had had trouble with his heart before this. The team had tried to go home but had hubbed a tree and had become nervous and trampled the ground until they broke the wagon tongue out. Then they went home. It was a cold winter night with much snow falling. Sallie Elinor Davis Hickman was left a widow at age thirty-one with five children, the oldest fourteen and the youngest two. Then began her struggle with poverty, fortunately she had three (sic) brothers living close by. [EDWIN and ELENDER WEBBER HICKMAN - Some Progenitors and Descendants. Early Pioneers of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri and Utah. By Hope A. Hilton, Third Edition August, 1978, page 96]
Note: Sarah "Sallie" actually had two brothers, William Riley and Harden Houston Davis.
Temple Elliott was the son of Elliott Hickman and Nancy Isbell; the husband of Sarah Elinor Davis. Temple was buried on the family homestead. To my knowledge there are only eight burials in this small family cemetery. I believe most of the graves also have foot markers.
On December 25, 1851, Temple Hickman went into the woods on government land to get wood to burn for the house he had built for his family eleven years before in Lawrence Co., Mo. He failed to come back on time and his wife Sallie became alarmed. She thought possibly he had stopped at neighbor Baldwin's to see about some shoes being made. To make sure she sent her daughter Julia to see about the shoes. When she returned and dropped the shoes on the floor, Sallie's hear sank. Soon the team of oxen came pulling the tongue of the wagon. The neighbors were notified by William. Tom and Josh Baldwin went in search of Temple. They found him on a partly loaded wagon, dead. There was no evidence of foul play. He no doubt had died of heart trouble as he had had trouble with his heart before this. The team had tried to go home but had hubbed a tree and had become nervous and trampled the ground until they broke the wagon tongue out. Then they went home. It was a cold winter night with much snow falling. Sallie Elinor Davis Hickman was left a widow at age thirty-one with five children, the oldest fourteen and the youngest two. Then began her struggle with poverty, fortunately she had three (sic) brothers living close by. [EDWIN and ELENDER WEBBER HICKMAN - Some Progenitors and Descendants. Early Pioneers of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri and Utah. By Hope A. Hilton, Third Edition August, 1978, page 96]
Note: Sarah "Sallie" actually had two brothers, William Riley and Harden Houston Davis.
On December 25, 1851, Temple Hickman went into the woods on government land to get wood to burn for the house he had built for his family eleven years before in Lawrence Co., Mo. He failed to come back on time and his wife Sallie became alarmed. She thought possibly he had stopped at neighbor Baldwin's to see about some shoes being made. To make sure she sent her daughter Julia to see about the shoes. When she returned and dropped the shoes on the floor, Sallie's hear sank. Soon the team of oxen came pulling the tongue of the wagon. The neighbors were notified by William. Tom and Josh Baldwin went in search of Temple. They found him on a partly loaded wagon, dead. There was no evidence of foul play. He no doubt had died of heart trouble as he had had trouble with his heart before this. The team had tried to go home but had hubbed a tree and had become nervous and trampled the ground until they broke the wagon tongue out. Then they went home. It was a cold winter night with much snow falling. Sallie Elinor Davis Hickman was left a widow at age thirty-one with five children, the oldest fourteen and the youngest two. Then began her struggle with poverty, fortunately she had three (sic) brothers living close by. [EDWIN and ELENDER WEBBER HICKMAN - Some Progenitors and Descendants. Early Pioneers of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri and Utah. By Hope A. Hilton, Third Edition August, 1978, page 96]
Note: Sarah "Sallie" actually had two brothers, William Riley and Harden Houston Davis.
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