Mt. Moriah was a thriving community during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s located on the Old Hickman-Dyersburg Rd (present day intersection of Campground and Mt. Moriah Roads). There were two general merchandise stores, a blacksmith shop, post office, WOW Lodge, drug store, grist mill, school and church.

Dr. Wm. Stanfield and his son, Witt, lived in the area. Witt managed the drugstore located on land bought from Wm. M. Wilson by Dr. Standfield and H. M. Pardue circa 1874. J. K. Dowdy owned store which housed the post office and was postmaster. T. C. Word and V. S. Pardue had the other general store with the WOW Lodge on the second floor. Jonas Scott owned and operated the blacksmith shop and Hank Miller the grist mill. Lola Amis and Mary Hawkins taught music in the area.

At the present site of Mt. Moriah Cemetery once stood an old log church building that was used by different denominations. Gillum Jackson helped in its organization and according to old records the “Baptist met on Saturday afternoon, preceding the second Sabbath of the month.” James Upton was and early preacher and Gillum Jackson became minister of the Baptist Church in 1853. John Edwards tore down and moved this building to the Charles Pardue place and in 1870 another was built at the site of the present Baptist Church. Jack Beaird hauled sills and planed lumber by hand for that building which burned in 1943. It was replaced the same year.

Tom Russell (1808-1865) asked to be the first person buried at Mt. Moriah and this was the beginning of the 5-acre plot knows as “Old Part” of the cemetery. Between 1906 and 1911, “Polk Beaird’s Section” (middle section) was added and Joshua Beaird was the first buried here. After the school consolidation, that ground was added as the north side of the cemetery.

In 1931, Mt. Moriah Cemetery Association organized with D. E. McCorkle as president until his death in 1939 and Dave Miller was elected. Nellie Miller Wells Bennett served as Sec.-Tres. 1931-1968 and resigned with Gwyneth B. Miller being  elected. In 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Miller, Edward McCorkle, M. T. McCorkle, J. H. Bennett, Elmer Harris, Kirkland Wells, Morgan Clanton, David McCorkle, J. D. Grisham, J. R. Albright and Nell Tate help begin a Cemetery Trust fund chartered June 26, 1975 by the State of Tennessee.

The school first met in the log church building circa 1865. About 1873 a school house was erected; in 1924 this was sold and moved to Dave Barnett’s land near Glass-Hornbeak Road. A three room school was built the same year in the present day north end of Mt. Moriah Cemetery. In 1936 the school consolidated with Cloverdale and the building was moved there and used as a gym. Some teachers at Mt. Moriah were: Nelle Kitchell, Ludie Barnes, Mr. Bell, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Shepard, Mr. Allen, Mr. Patterson, Mrs. Sallie Pardue Harrison, J. B. Strickland and Gertrude Bond.

Mt. Moriah postal service was changed to rural delivery from Obion circa 1906-1911 and George Tubbs was the first carriers. Sam Stone ran the last general store which closed in 1941.