Let's Visit Mount Holly Cemetery



Homework: dictation! Watch the video for three minutes. Then, watch the rest of video, and write what I say. You can check to see how much you understood. This is HARD, but it will help your speaking and listening.
  •  This is the first three minutes:

Cemetery

One of the oldest in Arkansas

One of the most famous

Burial place of six U.S. Senators

Eleven governors

Four Confederate generals

Fifteen state supreme court justices

Twenty one mayors of Little Rock

And of other people who were prominent

In the history of the state of Arkansas

It is interesting to see the old graves

Read the names

Sometimes learn a little about their lives

Some of the people here were killed in the Civil War

In that war, kids could join the army

As young as twelve, I’ve heard

In this graveyard there are some people who died

When they were fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old

Kids fought both sides…uh…

The south, Arkansas belonged to the south

Which was called the Confederacy

And the northern states of America were called the Union

Union and the Confederacy fought in the Civil War

The south lost

We will walk around today

Great day to be out

And look at the graves

Maybe visit some of the ghosts who live here

Or…who are here.

Mount Holly is open every day

Not many people come here

I guess they don’t like dead people

There’s a lot of noise from traffic…uh… cars going by

Streets on all sides of the cemetery

But still this is a very peaceful place

And today is certainly a beautiful day to be out

So let’s go visit some of the ghosts.


  • HOMEWORK: Start at 3 minutes…listen to the video, and write what you hear. Write what I say. You can check your answers

  •  This is the last ten minutes


Shipton
Hmmm…
Husband
L.M. Keith
“He died as he lived, a Christian serving the Lord”
Mother
In loving memory of Mother
“She held fast the faith without wavering”
B.B. Keith
Burchard
Died December 19, 1897
Only daughter
Wife of Duncan McKay and only daughter of George F and Clara A. Burchard
Benton Taylor
Beloved son of George & Clara Burchard
Born June 24 1874
Died October 22 1891
So seventeen years old
Wife
Husband
Friend
Friend got the flowers

This is interesting. Doctor Isaac Folsom

Folsom

Apparently  they do now want him to get out…Hmmm!

Joseph H. Brown

Died Oct 22, 1877 aged 13 months, 22 days

Baby

Maggie

There’s the parking lot

When you’re alive you park over there

And when you die you park over here

This side is prettier

Look here

Somebody has decided to add a grave

Love love love and fresh flowers

There’s Little Rock

And there is a home for the groundskeeper

He takes care of the graveyard

Keeps it clean and nice

And he does a good job. It’s very nice

Salome Dexter

Wife of Brevet General Pierson

Missionary to the Choctaw Indians

Died September 24th  1852

Aged 21 years

Churchill

Major General Thomas J. Churchill

CSA Confederate States Army

Born 1824

Died May 14, 1865

Emily Churchill

Born August 1865

So the General was killed in the Civil War

And his wife was pregnant

Six months pregnant when he died

And his daughter Emily was born three months after he died

And the Civil War was over

Confederate Medal of Honor

Presented by the SCV, July 1984

To David O. Dodd

Arkansas boy martyr of the Confederacy

Confederacy was 1861 to 1865

David O. Dodd

Was hanged as a spy

I think he was seventeen years old

And he was hanged in January of 1864

Just a few months before the war was over

Uh…hanged as a spy

His girlfriend tricked him into carrying secret message

And the Yankees caught him

Found the messaged

Decoded it

And they hanged him

In Downtown Little Rock

David O. Dodd is considered a hero

And people put money here

Dimes and pennies

Like you would throw in a fountain sometimes

Here…here lies the remains of David O. Dodd

Born in Lavaca County Texas

November 1oth, 1846

Died January 8th, 1864

So yeah, he was 17,

Didn’t quite make it to 18

Nice way to be remembered

Purple iris and a beautiful day in the cemetery

Jeff Davis

Attorney general, Governor, and United States Senator

Born May 6th 1862

Died 1913

1862…so he was named after Jefferson Davis

The President of the Confederacy

“To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die”

And his wife Ina McKenzie

“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures”

Time to say goodbye to the cemetery

Get back to the land of the living

Bye bye cemetery

See you folks later!



SCV means "Sons of Confederate Veterans"
CSA means "Confederate States of America"








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