The Cutbirth Cemetery is another of Christian County’s family cemeteries that exists only in memory. According to Ralph and Lena Wills who have been so instrumental in tracking down the old cemeteries, it was located on Swan Creek about 3 miles east of Chadwick. According to their information it at one time contained 9 graves, two belonging to “Old Lady Cutbirth” and her grandson Rad who were buried a day or two following the march of the 2nd Arkansas troops from Yellville to Springfield during the Civil War.
I received the following from Glennda Peterson, which may shed some light on “Old Lady Cutbirth and her Grandson Rod:
“I have a Rosy Anne Cutbirth (I have found her first name as Hannah, Rossahnah, and Savanah) born abt 1833 in Kentucky. She married William Wiggins (b1821) sometime around 1852 in Missouri – probably in Christian County as that is where most of the Wiggins were at that time. I found them in the 1860 census in Marion, Christian Co [family 533]. They have a son names James Radford “Rad” Wiggins, b. 1853. Living next to the Wiggins family was Mary Cutberth, b 1875 Virginia. I have not been able to find James Wiggins of Mary Cutberth in the 1870 census or after. Do you think they could be the same as those buried in the Cutbirth Cemetery?”