Don’t insult a preacher who has a mean son. This story also has to do with Al Starbuck. A man was mad at great grandpa Starbuck because of one of the sermons he preached about sin so he cursed great grandpa out publicly. Al was not present at the time but he met the man one day just as he was riding his horse across the Arkansas River. The story is that the man back his horse backward all the way across the river to escape.

            A knife in a grave. A group of young people were discussing about whether they would be afraid to visit a cemetery at night. One young lady avowed that she would not have any fear to do such a thing. They challenged her to prove it and gave her a knife to stick into a certain grave to prove that she had actually gone to the cemetery. She went to the cemetery and stuck the knife into the grave. It was in the days when girls wore long dresses so when she stooped down to stick the knife into the grave she accidental stuck it through her dress also. When she raised up the knife sticking through her dress gave a pull on her skirt. They found her there the next morning. The puling on her dress scared her so badly that she apparently died of a heart attack.