Top picture is marker for Edward Beecher Chatfield, Sr., in Mt. View Cemetery, Rapid City, South Dakota. Edward is a descendant from Lucy Ariail of Connecticut. Bio. Edward lost his wife in 1902 and was left with a son and three daughters. He was afflicted with TB and was having a difficult time caring for his family. I am not sure if he was living in Dubuque, Iowa or Topeka, Kansas. I believe it to be Topeka, however, he sent a letter to his sister, Anna Augusta “Gussie” Chatfield Woods in Rapid City, South Dakota asking if they could come live with her so he would have some help since he was so sick. At first she refused him because she had 8 children of her own. I don’t know the lapse of time, but eventually she asked him to bring his family to South Dakota and be with them. Edward put his two 3 girls on a train and sent them ahead of him and his son. He then hitched up a team to a wagon and loaded his belongings and drove all the way to Rapid City, South Dakota. He died shortly thereafter and is interred with his sister in the cemetery there in Rapid City, South Dakota. Two members of the Ariail Cemetery Committee have met with Edward’s descendants and they are a gracious and wonderful people. Presently they own a 3,000 acre ranch just outside Sundance, Wyoming. Bottom picture is marker for Alden H. Hinton and Jack W. Hinton, both sons of Samuel Duncan “Dunt” Hinton, descendants of Climelia Abigail Ariail.