Rhoda was only an infant when her parents prepared her little body for burial. James and Harriet Ferguson lovingly carried Rhoda to the hill top where they laid this precious, baby daughter to rest. The year was 1843, and this burial would be the beginning of the James Ferguson Sr. Family Cemetery.
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