Bailey-Moses Family Cemetery
Haywood County, Tennessee
|
Surname |
Given Name |
Birth Date |
Death Date |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Bailey |
Edd (Rev.) |
20 Dec 1829 |
30 Apr 1907 |
"Heaven is my home"; fallen stone |
|
Bailey |
Mollie M. |
17 Aug 1877 |
3 Jun 1907 |
"Gone but not forgotten"; fallen stone |
|
Green |
Elnora |
1896 |
31 Aug 1917 |
Death Cert. Indicates buried here; from JKT Smith book |
|
Moses |
Albert Jennings |
10 May 1810 |
2 Jul 1844 |
h/o Nancy Yancy |
|
New |
Darkus (Dorcas) |
abt 1842 |
27 May 1917 |
"At Rest"; age 75 |
|
Taylor |
Viola |
10 Aug 1917 |
21 Aug 1917 |
d/o Cary & Susie Taylor; Death Cert. Indicates buried here; from JKT Smith book |
|
Yancey |
Lucy |
12 Sep 1820 |
5 Aug 1844 |
|
Directions: At a point on the Lebanon Road about 0.2 mile north of its juncture with Highway 54, go up from the east side of this road and walk northeasterly about 0.3 mile to the edge of a woods to enter the location of this burial ground which was originally the graveyard of A. J. Moses (1810-1844), a white man, and his family (from JKT Smith book).
Source: Reading by Harriett Moses Flinn, 5 Jul 1945, and Reese Moses & Joy Scallion, 23 Mar 1996. “Tombstone Inscriptions From Black Cemeteries In Haywood County, Tennessee,” by Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1998 (Used with permission).
Note: This burial ground was originally the graveyard of A. J. Moses (1810-1844), a white man, and his family. Cemetery given name of subsequent owners, the Baileys. Several black people were buried here (from JKT Smith book).
19 Nov 2008