She then married Henry Murr. Henry Murr began the tradition of naming sons William. His son was the first of three generations. The William Murr of today lives in a Tonganoxie nursing home. His daughter and grandsons recently walked the ground of the pioneer cemetery.
Speculation surrounds the disappearance of the reminding headstones.
Barnhardt said at one time, he heard a farmer had bulldozed them into a fence row. A close inspection of all the fence rows surrounding the property netted nothing. A mother's sorrow on a Christmas Day so long ago stood the test of time to be remembered this Christmas Day some 127 years later.