Pleasant.View.Hopkins.CEMETERY

Some Tombstone Inscriptions from PLEASANT VIEW Cemetery which is
next to Pleasant View Baptist Church in Madisonville, Kentucky.
Viewed in November 1995. Surnames: SLATON, O'BRYAN, SMITH, GREER.

"Eva F./Wife of/Robert Slaton/Dec. 5,1874/May 5,1911/At Rest/
She is at rest in/heaven"

"Mother/Polley Lee,/wife of/A. W. Slaton/Mar. 10,1824/June 18,1908/
SLATON"

"At Rest/Arthur W./Slaton,/Born/Dec. 28,1810/Died/Jan. 19,1901/
SLATON"

"SMITH/Mollie W. 1857-1938//James A. 1855-1937"

"GREER/Walter  Jan. 28, 1872/ Apr. 12,1941//Dora  Aug. 20, 1872
[no death date on stone for Dora]

"Mary E./GREER/Born/Jan. 31, 1849/Died/Jan. 2,1901"
[indecipherable inscription below Mary's inscription]

"J. C. O'Bryan/Born ______ 1826/Jan. 31, 1906// Martha E./
Wife of/J. C. O'Bryan/Born Aug. 15, 1831/Died Mar. 23, 1904/
OBRYAN"

"Hollis G. Slaton/April 7, 1890/Mar. 2, 1972/At Rest"

"Alma C. Slaton/March 3, 1889/July 11, 1936/At Rest"

"Agnes Louise/Daut. of/H.G. & Alma/SLATON/Dec. 31, 1912/Nov. 27,1920"

"SLATON/Rev. A.C. Slaton/1853-1925//Martha Jane His Wife/
1856-1924"

"Auburn W./son of/A.C. & M.J. SLATON/Jan. 18, 1897/Sept. 13, 1910/
Our darling one has gone before/to greet us on the blissful shore/
SLATON"

(Personal NOTES: Slatons-- Rev. A.C. Slaton (Aurelious) was son of
Arthur W. Slaton.

Greer--My Great Grandmother Mary E. Greer was the daughter of John
E. & Sarah (nee Foxwell) McCormick. She was the widow of John H. Greer,
a native of Christian County. Her daughter Lenora (fraternal twin to
my Grandfather Leman Greer) married A. C. "Preacher" Slaton's son Lonnie
(Alonzo) Slaton.

My father John R. Greer recalls when he was 6 years old going to
the funeral of Agnes Louise Slaton who died at age 8, "a very very
sad occasion, my first experience of the death of a child." Agnes
was his Uncle Lonnie Slaton's niece.)

Walter Greer was the son of Mary E. & John H. Greer.
His wife Dora's maiden name was Mullinax or Mullinix and widow
of a man named Tyson.  She had a son Willie Tyson from that first
marriage. She and Walter Greer had no children.


Contributed by: braimer@kiwi.dep.anl.gov (Happy Greer) 
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997