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- There would not have been money for a stone for Basel in 1826 or 1827, having been uprooted from Green Country, Kentucky to open up a new piee of land in Pettus County. And it would be quite possible that Elizabeth, broght back for burial beside her husband 15 years later, wouldn't be in much better financial condition, nor would her children and so the lack of a tombstone for her wouldn't necessary mean she wasn't there.
Anyway, I was soaking up the experience and Mrs. Parsons than said, "You know, ther's a slave grave out in back of the wall." I said that was interesting, Mr. Parsons added, "Yes, her name was Elizabeth. There is a stone out there."
So I hurried out of the cemetary and went around to find the stone thinking probably this was no slave. This was Elizabeth Lane Prigmore, the wife of Basel Prigmore.I found the stone which ust be five feet long, a slab quarred near by and shaped an finished off. Mrs. Parsons said that the follow who has cleaned out the cemetary had gone out there to the slave grave and had taken a wire brush to the stone and had found that the name was Elizabeth. June goes on to say she did not have time for proper evaluation of the stone.
from June Welsh notes
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