If you love genealogy you will always find walking through cemeteries a fun and exciting experience. There are always interesting and mysterious stones that will need a little research. Such as the Joseph Turner Handlin tombstone at White's Chapel Cemetery, located on State Hwy. 297 a few miles before you get to the the little community of Tolu.
Joseph was married to Catherine Trimble, daughter of James Trimble and Margarette Gillespie from South Carolina. They were married Oct.16, 1828 in Livingston County, KY.
Joseph's stone has a lengthy inscription of it:
Deed of reserve Dec. 8th, 1854 A.D. to David Kimsey as follows: One acre on the north side of public road in the corner of the field in the square front around the grave of my wife bounded as follows: Recorded in Deed Book C, Page 631.
This stone was erected Feb. 2, 1949 by Divonis Worten M. D. Pawhuska, Okla.
I've always wondered who Divonis Worten was and why he erected this excellent history tombstone.
Through searching on Ancestry, I found that Divonis Worten was married to Addie Stalions of Livingston, Co. Her parents, James R. and Julia Kidd Stalions, are buried in the Carrsville Cemetery.
Divonis Worten died in 1956 and is buried at Pawhuska, Okla, and wife Addie died 1956 and is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis Tenn.
Although this solved my mystery of Divonis Worten, I still haven't found his connected to Joseph Handlin and why he would have erected this nice stone.
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