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Gravesite of "Rob Moore"
(Muir Semple)
and a number of relations
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
Section 1
(map)

 
Near the end of the lake, the site from up the hill looking down, and down the hill looking up

   

Muir Semple
June 4, 1887 -Feb 18, 1952
Ethel Davis Semple
Dec 15, 1889- June 17, 1951
Rob Moore (his real-life wife)

We almost missed Ethel, as her grave is almost completely covered by a small-leaf magnolia.
I
n the 1930 census Muir Semple has been married to Ethel for 10 years. They are 41 and 40 and no children are listed.

The Weissingers:


Of all the Little Colonel related folk, the monument to Harry Weissinger & family is the only grave site that is just a little more than humble.  Although Harry probably played no part on the Little Colonel stories (we can't be sure, because we don't have a real-life match for every mentioned character in the stories) he was the "Old Colonel's" real-life brother.  It was at Harry's home near 4th & Oak St. in "Old Louisville" that the Old Colonel's funeral began.  In the picture above, Muir Semple's ("Rob Moore's") grave is just up the hill behind the right side of the monument.  The four graves in front of the monument are as follows, left to right:

Blanche Weissinger Harry Weissinger Isabella Muir Weissinger In Memoriam
Judge Muir Weissinger
1868-1881 1843-1915 1846-1920 January 28 1870 -
August 1, 1952

The Muir family are the "Moore's" in the stories, and thus everyone here is at least related in some way to the Little Colonel characters.  This whole area is full of Weissingers and Semples.  We'll let you know if we find connections among any more of them to the Little Colonel stories.

 

 

Their Final Resting Places
(photos of the sites)

 

at Pewee Valley Cemetery, KY   at Oak Hill, Evansville, IN
Kate Matthews   Annie Fellows Johnston & Family

Summary Page

 

 

This Site:
Home Page   What's New?   Biography of Annie Fellows Johnston,   
Books on Line
  (Complete Original Little Colonel Book Series)
    The Little Colonel (link to U. Penn))
   
The Giant Scissors
    Two Little Knights of Kentucky
    The Little Colonel's House Party
    The Little Colonel's Holidays
    The Little Colonel's Hero
    The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
    The Little Colonel in Arizona
    The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 
    The Little Colonel, Maid of Honor 
    The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding
 
    Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's Chum 
    Mary Ware in Texas  
    Mary Ware's Promised Land
          Check our home page for more titles by AFJ on other sites
The People & Characters:
The Little Colonel, Papa Jack and Mrs. Sherman,  The Old Colonel, Two Little Knights of Kentucky,  Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2), 
Uncle Sidney & Aunt Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky, Grandmother McIntyre, Aunt Allison, The Waltons, Rob and Anna Moore, Betty, Joyce Ware, Jack WareMom Beck, Walker, Katherine Marks, Gay Melville, The Lees of Arizona, Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places

The Places:
in Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley: Map, Map 2, Where it all began, The Locust, The Beeches  Edgewood, The Little Colonel's Cottage, The Railroad Station, "Lloydsboro Seminary", Clovercroft, The Post Office, Churches, The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow,  Confederate Home Rollington, Minor Places In Old Louisville: The Culbertson Mansion, "Home of a Hero" Elsewhere: The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana), Lee's Ranch, Camelback Mountain & Hole-in-Rock (Arizona), 
San Antonio and The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne), Texas, The Gate of the Giant Scissors (France)
Letters from Annie Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"  
Scrapbook

Links
Cooking with The Little Colonel
Guest Book

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