I thought about the 'other' John Henry Arrowood, buried there in the Arrowood Cemetery in Poplar.
This John Henry was the son of Samuel Arrowood, Jr.
John Henry married a gal named Mattie Cooper and they had at least eight children that I have found so far.
I searched for anything really, thinking I could locate the final resting place for Mattie. I did not find her there in that tiny Arrowood Cemetery on the mountain of Green.
I typed in their names and up came an obituary for their daughter, Pearl Lee Arrowood. Pearl married a Robert Flowers. Sadly, Pearl passed away on the second anniversary of my Dad's death, July 20, 2010.
She is buried at the Monte Vista Cemetery in Johnson City, TN. We passed by that huge cemetery on the way to find Uncle John Henry and I so wished for a week or so of time, just to go through it.
I just knew that we had family buried there and of course, we do.
In Pearl's obituary was a wealth of clues. First, her descendant's names and those that survived her were listed there.
I saw that her sister Helen was still living and on a whim, I did a search on 'People' search and found a matching listing. Excited, I called the lady. I told her that we were related and what I was doing and she exclaimed.."Oh, you sound like my son, David". He is researching, too.
BOY HOWDY! was that ever exciting.
Turns out that David does search for the tree and is living in Knoxville, TN. I called him up and he has a bad case of pneumonia and could not talk much for coughing. Bless his heart.
He and I are Third Cousins! We exchanged just enough info to get us both excited. I hoped to see an email from him soon.
Well, the email came the very next morning and attached was a great photo of John Henry, wife Mattie Cooper Arrowood and two of their daughters, Pearl (back row) and Helen, the mother of David that I have spoken with.
You can sure see the Arrowood resemblence in John Henry.
Finding his grave atop that little mountain was thrilling and so was finally being able to put a face to his name.
