About 5 miles from the house is the Pisgah church and cemetary. We found out that Dr. Lockridge was buried at that cemetary. So, we went for a little graveyard tour and found his tombstone...here it is!
Sorry! Seth found actual tombstone.
How cool is that...to be able to see where he is buried. We found out that his wife remarried, but she is buried next to him.
We also found out this week that Dr. Lockridge doctored for a man that had been hit by a train in 1871. He was a witness to a murder trial in 1875. He came out in opposition to Missouri succession from the union in 1860. He was approached and declined to be a democratic representative. He planned a 4th of July celebration in Columbia. When Major John Rucker returned from the Civil War, he helped Dr. Lockridge complete the house (another indication that it was built about 10 years earlier than we were first told). Dr Lockridge owned brick yard with Major Rucker and he had an interest in a store called Goin and Lockridge. The last line in his obituary says..."and in his death the town sutains a loss hard to replace."
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