{"id":730,"date":"2012-08-25T01:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T05:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion2\/?page_id=730"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:02:31","slug":"mount-moriah-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/mount-moriah-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Moriah Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mt<\/a>Located about three miles outside of Glass TN, in District 14 (districts realigned in 1870, was probably district 5 before then) about a mile or two west of Obion on the road to Elbridge.<\/p>\n

History of town<\/h4>\n

An old log church building, used by different denominations, once was on the site of Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Gillum Jackson was involved in the organization and according to old records the “Baptist met on Saturday afternoon, preceding the second Sabbath of the month.” James Upton was an early preacher; 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.<\/p>\n

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 Josua Beaird was the first buried here. After the school consolidation, that ground was added as the north side of the cemetery.<\/p>\n

In 1931, Mt. Moriah Cemetery Association was organized and D. E. McCorkle served as president until his death in 1939 when Dave Miller was elected. Nellie Miller Wells Bennett served as Secretary-Treasurer 1931-1968 Gwyneth B. Miller was elected following the resignation of Mrs. Bennett. 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 helped begin a Cemetery Trust fund charterd June 26, 1975 by the State of Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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Sorted<\/h4>\n