NKinney said...
BillyBob@388 said...
Unrelated, OT fun note: There is also a young lady buried there named Charity Cain, born 1883, died Nov. 1900. She was the daughter of Fannie and Virgil Cain. If her father was about 40 when she was born, he would have been old enough to have been a confederate soldier.
BillyBob, you're near Pontotoc? That's where Virgil & Fanny lived during the
1900 census (also the year you say that Charity died). The Danville line (the Richmond & Danville Railroad, perhaps the most significant supply line between the south and the Dixie capital, Richmond) ran just south of you...
through Columbus.May 10, 1865 was the day Jefferson Davis was captured. Richmond had been abandoned/taken the month before.
Virgil from Pontotoc was black...
unlikely impossible that he was a confederate solider. He was born in 1860, so although he was only 5 in '65, he may remember it very well but perhaps through a different lens than you were envisioning.
Robbie Robertson took some poetic license. Robert E. Lee was never in Tennessee during the war, but that state rhymes well with "quick come see."
Yes, I am in Tupelo. That almost lost cemetery is 6 miles west as the crow flies, half way between my house and Pontotoc. How did you know I was near Pontotoc? Something I said previously, or super sleuthing skills? 
Also, super good work finding that out about Virgil and Fanny Cain of Spring Hill community(that was the name of the now non-existant community). I never thought to research that when I had a paid up membership to Ancestry. Thanks. And you are right, unlikely he was a confederate soldier, being black, though certainly not impossible. (guess we better get off of that subject though. LOL!). In case I wasn't clear, I never actually thought this Virgil Cain was the one in the song, if indeed that was actually even a real person. I just thought it was a really cool coincidence. I would post a picture of the headstone if I knew how to do so on this forum.
Thanks again for that info!
Halbert said...
NKinney, I don't know where you got the idea I was 87. I just turned 59 last Sunday. My perspective remains.
I figured that was a joke. Was it not? I've got a friend, 10 years older than me, who often tells me I look really great for a 90 year old man. 