Cemetery location: From Alexandria, DeKalb, TN, travelling Highway 70
East, go south from Alexandria towards Smithville.
Turn left to the east side of Highway 70 onto Old Highway 53 (goes a
short distance to dead end), which is the first left off Highway 70
just past Willoughby Lane. One house is on that road, and the cemetery
is just past the house about 450 feet from Highway 70. This is cemetery
#134 on the cemetery directions pages. MAP
Also, said to be buried here is Peter Vanatta and some of his sons and
family members. Peter was the one who brought the Vanatta name to this
area from North Carolina. Another person buried here and later
re-interred at Brush Creek Cemetery was: Jennie Mai Crowder Vanatta,
the wife of Dolphen McKinley Vanatta. She was the daughter of John
Calvin and Lela Crowder. Jennie Mai and Dolphen McKinley Vanatta
married October 26, 1921. Jennie Mai Crowder was born November
9, 1899 and died May 5, 1926.
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There are two indexes to this cemetery. One is ordered by rows and one
is alphabetical. Often family members will be buried near each other;
so the row index is included here.
Link to the Row Index
The row index does not link to the photo pages, except it does link to
only images of unreadable stones to keep track of their positions. It
is included here
only to show grave location. All the pages of grave marker photos can
be
accessed from the alphabetical index.
ALPHABETICAL
INDEX
Click on the names in the index below to go to the page for that grave.
NOTE: Rows are not even, and if a row starts, it can end in
the middle of cemetery, so Row designations are only for the starting
side, which is on the North, to the left of the Gate.
Row
1 (left side)
HAYS, double stone, left side behind front rock wall.
A N Hays 1852-1928
A Tennie Hays 1854-no date [Feb 22, 1940]
HILDRETH, double stone to right of gate, faces front, bushes obscure
the view
Beatrice J 1908-1972
Henry S 1901-1973
Row
2
Several spaces
JENKINS double stone
Ouida 1908-1989
Rutland 1901-1968
5 spaces
Jesse Willoughby 1920-1986
MALONE double stone
Dexie Mai 1912-1981
Alvie Lee 1908-1989
Row
3
HILDRETH double stone
Josephine Vanatta 1858-1927
George W 1863-1935
HILDRETH double stone
Robert 1888-1931
Lallie E 1900-1971
HILDRETH double stone
Carrie Groom 1896-1969
John Redford 1893-1971
VANATTA quadruple stone with four individual stones
William S May 21, 1935-
M Ruth 1947-
Levert T 1912-1986
Lillie C 1911-1991
WILLOUGHBY.
Jim Lawrence 1916-1958
WILLOUGHBY
Johnsie R 1903-1942
WILLOUGHBY double stone
Mattie 1885-1959
Ollie 1885-1962
Row
4
Single stone- can’t read, moss covered- view image here
Several spaces
Caroline Vannatta 1825-1904
2 spaces
Mary King 1851-1924
2 spaces
CROWDER double stone
Carrie B 1902-1975
Wade H 1901-1989
3 spaces
Jolyn Jennings 1936-1937
Charlyne Jennings 1938-1938
JENNINGS double stone
Beulah M 1912-[2006]
Charles P 1912-1984
Row
5 (only half row in length)
Unreadable stone view
image here
