... Cave Hill Cemetery (the most prestigious burial ground in the region) has records that the Old Colonel was buried on February 25, 1903, his wife two months later. A plot map shows the exact location of the graves. But there are no tombstones or grave markers. Why? We don't know. We also can find nothing about the death of Amelia Pearce Weissinger (born Amelia Neville Pearce), his wife, just before her interment beside him on April 30, 1903. Now we have some information form the Weissinger descendents and others that Amelia probably passed away in around 1870 (she had been his wife only since 1865...Col. Weissinger is noted in local histories as having practiced law in Owensboro and in Louisville after the death of his wife.) There is confirming evidence of that in the Filson Historical Society's Genealogies of Kentucky Families that puts Amelia Neville Pearce's death date at October 19, 1870. ...
