Update: Annie Apple Van Marm

Original post on May 20, 2010.

First Update on April 30, 2011.

I recently got to exchange a few emails with a friend of Annie Apple Van Marm's and she was kind enough to send me a few photos of her.  She also told me that Annie made all the Tye-Dyed items in the photos. Thank you so much for sending me the photos.  It is such a wonderful thing to put a beautiful face with such a unique memorial.

Annie Apple Van Marm

1971 - 1991

Update: Annie Apple Van Marm

Back in May of 2010 I posted a blog titled "Complete with real skulls" of this very interesting grave located in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR.

I posted her name as Annie Applemar in the previous post.  I now believe her name is actually Annie Apple Van Marm, thanks to a much better photo posted on Arkansas Gravestones Project website and a little research I have done.

Here is the photo that Vickie Kane posted on the Arkansas Gravestones Project website.

You can clearly read "Annie Apple Marm" but if you look real close you can see the word "Van" is wedged in as if it was originally forgotten and added later.

So I started researching both names and this is the information I have come up with.

Note:

I may be reading this wrong but to me the following sounds to me as if Annie's mother, Luana, is writing to this website and also channeling Annie as well.  I could be completely wrong but that is the way I am reading it. You can also go to the cited link below and see where Luana said :

"Annie Apple is dead....and working INTENSLY with all of Us here, form beyond the vail"

Letters From Annie Apple's Mom (and Annie Apple) (http://www.educate-yourself.org/lte/letterannieapplesmom14sep05.shtml , April 29, 20011)

From: luana
To: Educate-Yourself
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: POWERFUL , Mother, Priestesses

Yes, Miss Annie Apple Van Marm, "The Rainbow Dancer"

She was the vegan, tye dye queen, and stage dancer for the Greatful Dead, She danced with beautiful rainbow scarfs that She dyed Herself.

Hit on a bridge by a Wal Mart truck, the cameras immidiately started rolling right after the accident, so I saw the whole thing from many angles....a hundred times....including the part where She looked into the camera and whispered "mamma" ....and than, with the speed of insanity, She gasped and died.

500 people showed up for Her funeral and She is still to this day a local, and even an international legend......

Annie was Jerry Garcia's and Bobby Wier's favorite tye dye artist and stage dancer, singer and 12 string guitar player.....they came to Her funeral and payed for everything....so did Willy Nelson and members of his family

The article of her death and life was on the frount page of the Arkansas newspaper and they refered to Her as a "national Treasure"....Her beauty and power and art and dancing and music were also mentioned.

Her Father is Bernard Petar Van Marm who is a multimedia artist in Chicago

She never went to any school....She was a raw food vegan all of Her life. She studyed music and art since She was 5 years old

To say that She was physicaly beautiful, that would be an understatement...Long Golden Hair and big fat lips and boobs, and dazzeling blue eyes.

That is how She was in Life

This is how She is now

Hi Ken,
This is Annie, I read a lot of Your posts with My Mom, and of course She reads aloud all of the very amazing letters and s.a. s that are written in from others. I am here just outside of a warp from my Mom, I am here with a group of very cool and informed dead people and we work like You in-body do, we help pull everything together. I stay here with my mom and sister, Delilah, a lot, and I do many things for them because I am now able to go in and out of them, so I sometimes lend them my perspectives, and to gather we have been doing a lot of magic with our work to increase the Heart vibration of Earth Humans both dead and living.

Just like where You are there in body, there are also MANY dangers here, and MUCH work to be done....the lower levels here are choked with fumes and little pieces of Our Mother's Heart that just drift aimlessly without much consciousness ...My Mother and I have opted to go to these places and magnetically pull these tortured and confused magnetic particles into Our Loving Hearts, bring them to "the Light" and figure out what they need to live and be happy and sweet....again.

I very much appreciate it that You are curious about Me, very flattered and I Love the Miracle of being able to talk to You.

Annie Apple Van Marm

Wow !

Luana here, Why did You say that You were "Facinated"....was that a typo? cause if it wasn't....OMG !!!

I'm still on storm control duty so I gotta get back to that now.

and

Dont worry if I say "I Love You" ....in My clan here at My cottage we use "I Love You's" like comas and periods....just not the fake kind of "I Love Yous" rather We say I Love You in FULL counciousness.....so stress not ....We REALLY DO, "Love You"

so sue Us

Luana, Delilah and Annie Apple

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I also found a website that had a photo of Annie's grave and the referred to it as a  Local Witch's Grave.  (You can click the link and read what they have written about it.)

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I am still looking for more information so if any of you happen to come across any please feel free to send it my way.

Update

Here is another photo I took at a different visit http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-photo-i-like_15.html

Photos of Annie can bee seen here http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-annie-apple-van-marm.html

Dr. Jackson's Eye Water

Located at Grandview Cemetery in Grandview, AR.

Gone Home

Alvah W

Son of

J.F. and M.E. Jackson

Born Jan 2, 1860

Died Sept 6, 1863

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Flora V Dau of

J.F. and M.E. Jackson

Born

Feb 16, 1862

Died

Sept 12, 1863

Jesus sade suffer little

Children to come unto

Me and forbid them not

For of such is the kingdom

Of God. Mark XCXIVV

Sacred to the memory of

Alvah

Jackson

Born

July 25, 1806

Died

May 21, 1880

Also his wife

Nancy

Born

Oct 2, 1807

Sept 10, 1875

...

Their worthy deeds

while on Earth with us

Shal live beyand the

Tomb

The following info is from http://www.ancestry.com/ , April 17, 2011.

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Alvah F. Jackson

Name: Alvah F. Jackson

Gender: Male
Birth Place: GA
Birth Year: 1806
Spouse Name: Nancy Virginia Coleman
Spouse
Birth Place: VA
Spouse Birth Year: 1807
Marriage
Year: 1828
Marriage State: KY
Number Pages: 1

U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 about Sleah Jackson

Name: Sleah Jackson [Alvah Jackson]

Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Place of Birth: Georgia
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1806
Age: 74
Month of Death: May
Cause of Death: Poisoned
Census Year: 1880
Census Location: (City, County, State)
Eureka Springs, Carroll, Arkansas
Enumeration District: 24
Line: 26

Jasper County, Missouri Deaths 1878-1905 about Alvah, Dr. Jackson
Name: Alvah, Dr. Jackson
Age or Birthdate: * cr
Death Date: 21 May 1880
Issue Date: 26 May 1880

Dr. Alvah Jackson is mentioned in History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties. Information found on http://www.ancestry.com/, April 17, 2011.

Dr. Alvah Jackson is also written about in Pioneer tales of Eureka Springs and Carroll County. Information found on http://www.ancestry.com/, April 17, 2011. 

The following pages are also from Pioneer tales of Eureka Springs and Carroll County.

You can even find his "Dr. Jackson's Eye Water" mentioned on Nestle Waters website and Ozarka's website.

John L.C.

Son of

J.M. and M.J. Jackson

Born

Feb 23, 1873

Died

Feb 14, 1880

Budded on earth to

Bloom in Heaven.

Johney we mis the at

Home.

L.A. Jackson

Born

Oct 25, 1842

Died

Nov 20, 1863

Also

Mrs. N.J. Roberson

Dau of

A. and N. Jackson

Born

Apr 26, 1845

Died

Nov 27, 1868

Gone but not forgotten

Info is from http://www.ancestry.com/., April 17, 2011

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles about L A Jackson

Name: L A Jackson

Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: Arkansas
Service Record: Enlisted in Company H, Arkansas Johnson's Infantry Regiment.
Sources: Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records


U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 about L.A. Jackson
Name: L.A. Jackson
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Arkansas
Regiment Name: Cocke's Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: Cocke's Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
Company: H
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Film Number: M376 roll 12

Charles Christian Hammer - An American Classical Guitarist

Located at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR.

~Sir~

Charles Christian Hammer

May 17, 1952 - Feb 18, 2004

Beloved Master Musician

No matter where The saints abide, They make

their circuit fair. Behold! How great a

firmament accompanies a star

Note: the epitaph at the bottom is from "No matter where the Saints abide," by Emily Dickinson

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'Sir Charles' gave his music and love

Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Carroll County News

Arrangements for memorial services for Charles Christian Hammer, 51, longtime Eureka Springs resident, are pending.

Hammer passed away in a Rogers hospital Wednesday evening. He had been hospitalized for treatment of a lung tumor.

Friday evening, he was honored as the Musician of the Year by members of the Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce during the annual "Eureka's Best" dinner.

John Two Hawks called Hammer "my musical comrade" as he spoke briefly about "his magic hands and feet."

"He could turn a guitar into a river or a beating heart," Two Hawks said. "He knew the transforming power of his music. He was a master living in our midst. And at the end of the day, he was a lot of fun."

Many of his friends saw him as "a true Renaissance Man. Born with music in his soul, he brought light and joy to his family and friends as well as to the many who knew him from the beautiful music he created and shared with the world."

Hammer was born in May 17, 1952, in Chicago.

After graduation from high school in Virginia, Charles' love of the guitar led him to Puebla, Mexico, into private tutelage under Maestro Juan Gaspar for the next three years.

He was planning a spring tour in Mexico including performances in San Miguel de Allende, Puebla and Guanajuato.

He moved to Eureka Springs in the 1970s and became part of the musical establishment in the community, playing for weddings, special events, dinners and in Basin Park for the sheer joy of playing.

He earned a bachelor of arts and a master's degree in music at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

In the late 1990s, he taught guitar and music history at the university.

In 1998, he was awarded a music composition fellowship by the Arkansas Arts Council.

A respected classical guitar virtuoso, he often played on National Public Radio (NPR), and participated in educational programs sponsored by NPR in area schools introducing children to music.

He has recorded 11 albums. His latest is a collection of Beatles love songs, "It's Only Love."

Survivors include his longtime partner, Poco Carter, and his mother, Floss Schloss of Rogers.

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The following info is from Wikipedia.

Charles Christian "Sir Charles" Hammer, (1952 - 18 February 2004), was an American classical guitarist.

Charles Christian Hammer was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1952. Hammer took up the guitar in his youth after hearing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. He purchased his first guitar with earnings from a newspaper route. Hammer was influenced heavily by The Beatles throughout his career.

During the 1970s Hammer moved to Mexico where he studied Spanish guitar. Hammer stated that his nickname, "Sir Charles", was given to him about this time by a "fairy princess" with golden hair, but it is more probable that the nickname arose from comments about the styling of his blond hair or the baroque puffy-sleeved shirts he wore on stage.

In the 1980s Hammer moved back to the United States, establishing himself as a local act in the small artist's retreat of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he performed at weddings and parties.

During this time and into the 1990s Hammer experimented in the studio. He generated 11 albums that combined electric and classical guitar but fell short of his long established goal of producing 30 albums during his lifetime.

In the late 1990s, Hammer taught guitar and music history at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a master's degree in music. In 1998 he was awarded a music composition fellowship by the Arkansas Arts Council. Hammer's final album was a classical guitar rendering of several of his favorite Beatles songs.

Just prior to his death Hammer began to experience some commercial success in the foreign market and was scheduled to tour three cities in Mexico. Hammer was a much-loved figure in Eureka Springs, especially by the local children for whom he put on school concerts.

In 2003 he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Charles Christian Hammer died on 18 February 2004 at St. Mary's Hospital in Rogers, Arkansas. Hammer was survived by his long-time partner, Poco Carter, and their dog Prema.

Laddie Joe Harp

Located at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR.

Laddie Joe Harp

Dec 20, 1926

Aug 29, 2007

Laddie "Joe Harp"

NASCAR 1950 - 1954 Car #20 & 6

Honolulu, Hawaii

Member of

NASCAR Living Legends Museum

Daytona Beach, Florida

Laddie Joe Harp

US Navy

US Coast Guard

SSGT US Army Air Forces

World War II Korea

Dec 20, 1926 - Aug 29, 2007

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Eureka Springs loses patriot son

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Lovely County Citizen




Zoe and Albert Harp, long-time Eureka Springs Folk Festival fixtures and owners of historic Harp's Old Time Grocery, are seen in this 1970s photo. The Harp family operated their store from 1885 until Albert's death in 1985. Their son, the late Laddie Joe Harp, often helped at the store.

 By Donice Woodside

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Laddie Joe Harp, a native of Eureka Springs, died at his Holiday Island home on Wednesday evening, Aug. 29 at the age of 80.

He was born on Dec. 20, 1926, the only child of Albert and Zoe Harp, owners of Harp's Old Time Grocery, Eureka Springs' oldest store. "He came from good people, with good roots," said Bank of Eureka Springs president John Cross.

Harp was the grandson of Claude Pike, a former Eureka Springs police chief and foreman of the first organized fire company in Eureka Springs. Harp began carrying on his family's tradition of service at the young age of 17. He served in the Navy, Army Special Forces, Air Force and Coast Guard and was a veteran of WWII and the Korean War. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Elks Lodge, American Veterans and the American Legion.

Harp also helped organize the Greater Ozarks Patriots Association, an organization which included not only veterans, but also Elks, Legionaires, Lions and members of other groups committed to public service. Later, he served as its president.

Harp was most proud, however, of his role as state bugler for Missouri's American Legion, playing Taps at veterans' funerals across the state, sometimes attending as many as five funerals in one day.

Charge!

Harp seldom missed the Eureka Springs Folk Festival parade, riding at the lead, he was recognized by many when he bugled "Charge!"

"During the antique car parade, when you heard that distant bugle sounding 'Charge!,' you knew Laddie Joe would soon drive by in his 1975 white Corvette," said Shirley Harp, his wife of 19 years. Sometimes, people across town could hear him playing bugle on his East Mountain porch.

After his military service, Harp began playing the bugle as a professional musician in Springfield and Joplin, Mo. He continued to entertain at veterans' conventions throughout his life.

Always the lover of a thrill, Harp raced for NASCAR in Honolulu, Hawaii during the early 50s. He is included in NASCAR's Living Legends Museum in Daytona Beach, Fla. He raced motorcycles in Springfield until he was 50 years old.

Beloved Son

"The whole family doted on Laddie Joe," recalled Cross, whose cousins Rena Brown and Helen Harper told him when Harp was a very little boy, he discovered if he left his bedroom door open and prayed real loud for something, someone in the house would hear and get it for him.

As older boys, Cross and Harp rode horses on the Harp farm. "Laddie Joe and I both loved horses," he said. "We loved to ride them, and we loved to train them."

As a young man, Harp did odd jobs for Cross' grandfather, U.S. Congressman Claude A. Fuller.

Shirley often thought recording her husband's stories would have been a good idea. "You should write some of this down," she told him.

Harp agreed, although he never committed his memories to paper. "I know things nobody in this town knows," he said.

Harp is survived by one son, Mark Harp, and wife Cindy; one grandson, Joey Harp; and one great grandson, Jason Harp, all of Springfield, Mo. He was preceded in death by his parents, grandparents and his maternal aunt.

Graveside services were held Saturday at the Eureka Springs Cemetery. When asked whether she wanted to put Harp's watch back on his wrist, Shirley opted not to. "It has an alarm. When it goes off, it makes the sound of a rooster crowing," she said, laughing through her grief. She thought it would be tacky if the rooster crowed during the memorial service.

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Laddie Joe Harp
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Carroll County News

LADDIE JOE HARP, a resident of Holiday Island, was born Dec. 20, 1926, in Eureka Springs, a son of Albert and Zoe (Wright) Harp. He died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, at the age of 80.

Mr. Harp was a musician. He was also a member of the Elks Lodge, the American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He attended the First Christian Church of Eureka Springs.

On Feb. 21, 1988, he was united in marriage with Shirley Francis, who survives him of the home. He is also survived by one son, Mark Harp, and wife Cindy; one grandson, Joey Harp; and one great grandson, Jason Harp, all of Springfield, Mo.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his Aunt Edna, and his grandparents.

Graveside services were held Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007, at the Eureka Springs Cemetery. Interment followed in the Eureka Springs Cemetery under the direction of Nelson Funeral Service. Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral.com.

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First Woman Doctor in Arkansas

Dr. Pearl Tatman resting in the IOOF Cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR.

Dr. Albert E

Tatman

1870-1925

Dr Pearl

Tatman

1867-1944

The West Family Crosses

This is the West's family plot. Located in Berryville Memorial Park Cemetery in Berryville, AR.

Isaac A. Clarke

Found this one at Berryville Cemetery in Berryville, AR.

Isaac A. Clarke

Founder of Clarke's

Accademy in 1867

Present building built

in 1878

In loving memory of

Isaac A. Clarke

1837-1907

His spirit lives on in all those

he left behind; a great host of

fortunate ones who called him

teacher and friend.

Erected by his students

Astronomers tell us the distance

of each star from earth, but no

 mathematician can calculate the

influence which a noble teacher

may exert upon posterity.

Bryan

Complete With Real Skulls

I found this uniquely beautiful and interesting grave site at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR.  It belongs to Annie Applemar.  She was 19 years old when she passed in 1991.  I was told that this is an Indian Spirit Bed. I have not been able to find any more information about her or the grave.

Updates

http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/2011/04/update-annie-apple-van-marm.html

An Additional Photo I took at a different time. http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-photo-i-like_15.html

Personalized Stone

While visiting the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Eureka Springs, AR I discovered this beautiful marker. It caught my eye and I had to investigate.

A Genealogist's Dream Stone

I found this stone in Beaver Cemetery in Beaver, AR.  This is the most detailed family info I have ever seen on a stone.

It reads:
A soldier of the Union
A soldier of the Cross

Samuel Lundy The 2
Born in Warren Co NJ Mar 24, 1817
Died Mar 29, 1913  At Beaver Carroll Co Ark
Son of George Lundy 2 and Rurh Adams
of George Lundy 1 and Esther Wilson
of Samuel Lundy 1 and Ann Schooley
of Richard Lundy 2 and Elizabeth Large
of Richard Lundy 1 and Jane Lyon
of Sylvester Lundy -
of Axminister England