© Kathy Duncan, 2020
This is one of the more curious items from the Harding/Dabbs Collection, a cemetery burial card.
It appears to be written in ball-point pen sometime after 1956, so it is not period to the lot's purchase in perhaps 1888.
From it, we learn that Mrs. L.E. Selph was the owner. That would be Lavinia Emily Selph, wife of Rev. Duncan Hyder Selph. It encompassed ten grave plots in lot no. 73 in Section A of Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Included is the notation that it is deed number 117.
Then there is a record of each burial in the plot with the year of burial and relationship to the plot owner:
1. Selph, Frank B 1892 Son
2. Selph, Lily 1899 Owner
3. Selph, Wash B 1888 Son
4. Selph, Hardy B 1918 Son
5. Selph, Anna M 1940 [relationship not noted but she was son Hardy's wife]
6. no burial?
7. Selph, Asa 9-1956 Grandson
8. Harding, Dee Selph 1921 Daughter
9. Sallie Selph McLain 1925 Daughter
10. McLain, Dr. Joe M. 1906 Son-in-law
The last piece of information is that they had a certificate of perpetual care.
I can't help but wonder who space 6 might have been intended for. Perhaps, it was meant for no one in particular.
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