An Inventory of Antebellum Tombstone Inscriptions
Carroll County, Tennessee
Compiled by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2002

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ADDENDA

ALL LIBERTY CHURCH CEMETERY

The older section of this cemetery is sited on the west side of All Liberty Methodist Church (established in 1855). To reach this burial ground turn from U. S. Highway 70, in Huntingdon, onto Old Stage Road and drive about 2. 5 miles to this cemetery.

JOSEPH D., son of JOSEPH and JANE PICKETT
Born Oct. 6, 1839 Died at Camp Chase, Ohio, March 16, 1863 aged 24 years 5 mos & 10 dys
footstone JDP
Government service marker beside it:
JOS. D. PICKETT, Co. F, 7 Tenn. Cav.
[The original tombstone is broken, fallen, its pieces and footstone are embedded in two large yucca plants.]

ADA H., infant daughter of A. & J. E. FULLER Born May 12, 1864      Died July 16, 1864 One repaired tombstone: C. N. KEMP Born Aug. 5, 1856      Died Oct. 27, 1868* T. B. KEMP Born May 24, 1864      Died Aug. 17, 1869 footstones: CNK and TBK

One tombstone: W. DARNALL [north side] Born Apr. 5, 1823      Died Jan. 25, 1865 footstone: WD C. A. [CAROLINE] DARNALL [so. side] Born May 24, 1823      Died Apr. 7, 1884 footstone: CAD

 

*The top portion off number "6" in this date is visible on close examination and "8" is discernible in dim outline as the repair line extends through this date. This date is sometimes mistakenly rendered 1856.

[These were Ostensibly- the children off ALSEY B. and M. [Carter] KEMP who were married in Carroll County late in 1854.]

 

ROWLAND CEMETERY
(Refer from page 14)

Interview, Jonathan Smith with Lucy Walker Sisco, widow off Howard Sisco, Camden, Tenn., April 17, 2002. Mrs. Sisco was born October 2, 1921, raised in Bruceton near this cemetery and attended the school located here for years. She remembered passing this cemetery and the one tombstone she recalled frequently, to and from school and during recess. The old brick school built in the late 1920s stood closer to U.S. Highway 70 than its successor does, especially after the highway (U.S. 70) was broadened along here late in the 1940s. She recalled that the burial area was located further up the slope from the highway, from what is now the east entrance to the "new" school. She stated that hers was a vivid memory of the tombstone she recalled here as standing under a tree and the first name of the person on the tombstone was SARAH and that she died in 1864. She could not recall the woman's last name. It is likely the cemetery is located under the front parking area of the present school or just behind the parking area.

 

BLEDSOE CEMETERY #2

To reach this place drive south about 2. 3 miles from the public square in Huntingdon, on Highway 22, to a gravel road on the west (right) side of the highway; turn onto it, drive to a gate, through which drive about .8 mile to a high hill where a TV tower in sited. The graves here are lost, with grading having been done. The following is the only tombstone the compiler found here:

YANCY BLEDSOE
Born July 14, 1803
Died Aug. 16, 1864
A loving husband, a father dear, a faithful friend lies buried here.
[The tombstone is broken, laid upon a log]

 

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SHILOH [METHODIST] CEMETERY

Located in the Whitthorne community in western Carroll County, specifically just to southwest of the juncture of highways 220-N and 104-East.

CAROLONE M. daughter of John and M. A. ROBINSON Died March 28, 1846 Aged 24 yrs. 11 days ROBERT ALGEE Born Mecklenburg Co., N.C. June 27, 1788 Died Carroll Co., Tenn., May 20, 1858 ADRA A. ALGEE Born Oct. 18, 1845 Died Aug. 18, 1852 MARTIN A. son of H. S. and E. H. HERRON Died Mar. 31, 1865 aged 6 mos. 13 ds. ELDRIDGE HAYNES Died Nov. 24, 1860 Aged 45 yrs. 25ds   In attempting to repair Eldridge Haynes' tombstone sometime in the past his age thereon was obscured. To the natural eye his age reads "45 years."

MARGARET E. wife of Michael BURK Died Sept. 4, 1865 aged 52 years Sure it is the sleep our mother takes till in Christ Jesus she awakes. Then will her happy soul rejoice to hear her blessed savior['s] voice. D. H. Winans Cairo, Ill., [stonecutter] SARAH C. wife of James M. WOOD Born Feb. 11, 1806 Died Jan. 18, 1862 Remember friends as you pass by as you are now so once was I. As I am now so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me. [A fallen, broken tombstone] KARON O. daughter of E. & M. HAYNES Died Oct. 4, 1860 aged 15 yrs. 8 mos. 24 ds   Because of the present poor condition of Mary Haynes' tombstone its inscription has been copied and a photo has been taken of the 'stone itself.   MARY wife of Eldridge HAYNES Died Aug. 25, 1876 aged 56 yrs. 6 mos & 12 dys Leyman & Co. McKenzie, Tenn. [stonecutter]

 

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MARGARET, wife of Phillip BURROW Feb. 13, 1779-Oct. 16, 1852 Sons of Phillip & Margaret Burrow		MARY wife of William J. SLOAN Born 1789 Died Feb. 17, 1862 aged 73 years [a fallen, broken tombstone] The tombstone of MARY SLOAN is cracked/broken through the death date. Presently the lower part of F February is visible on the lower portion of the tombstone and the upper bar of the F is visible on the upper portion of the stone. The lower loop of the e in Feb. is visible and the little slant bar in the b of Feb. is visible. The day, 17, is determined by close cleaning and the 2 in 1862 is visible to the practiced eye.
Jarrell Nimrod Martin Banks James John	Hiram Granville Isham Rheuben William
Photo too poor to reproduce The replacement tombstone for MARGARET BURROW bears the names of her sons
JOSEPH S. SLOAN Born Jan. 7, 1823 Died Nov. 3, 1865
WILLIAM J. SLOAN Born in the Co. Antrim IRELAND June 1786 Died June 14, 1870 Aged 84 years		This tombstone is broken, inscription very worn at places; it took considerable cleaning to properly read the inscription in its entirety.

 

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PISGAH CEMETERY

Located about .4 mile east of the junction of Highway 79-N and 70-A in Atwood, Tennessee.

RACHEL ROACH Born June 22, 1770 Died Oct. 23, 1856 Aged 86 ys 4 ms 1 day ELI GUTHRIE ROACH Born Sept. 20, 1822 [Died Oct. 4, 1861] [A broken stone] ROBERT LANSDEN Died Sept. 6, 1855 [Aged 46 years] MALISSA wife of Samuel STRIBLING Died April 26, 1861 Aged 59 y 9 m 16 ds LITTLE BUD son of J. W. &S. E. HARWOOD B & D Oct. 28, 1860 MARY M. McCOLLUM Died Sept. 29, 1859 Aged 6 years SUSAN E. DICKSON Born May 12, 1854 Died June 5, 1859 Aged 5 yrs. & 23 ds. EMMA E. Daughter of E. M. & E. A CANON Born Feb. 3, 1854 Died Sept. 24, 1859 JOHN CANNON Born Nov. 5, 1792 Died June 5, 1865 Aged 72 yrs. & 2 ms.

WILLIAM A. son of J. [John] C. and S. [Sarah] A. JONES Died Feb. 12, 1865 aged 5 ys 9 ms 8 da [A fallen, broken tombstone] ASAHEL DICKSON Aged 72 years [a broken tombstone] ASAHEL DICKSON 1790-1856 J. E. and J. R. Dickson 1994 JULIA WEDDINGTON Departed this life Sept. 24, 1857 aged 73 years. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Amen. CLARA OCTAVIA WEDDINGTON Born March 2, 1857 Died Sept. 17, 1858 Suffer Little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God. Wm. M. son of B. & M. J. WATTES Died Jan. 23, 1865 Aged 8 mos. 4 das. In bloom in Heaven. Resting lamb on upper portion of the stone [On the south side of this child's grave is that of another, marked with a fragmented tombstone, likely another Wattes/Watts child; only the lower portion is extant, reading: Died July _ _, [18]_ _, Aged __ __ & 2 __.]

 

PROSPECT CEMETERY

Located on the north side of U. S. Highway 70 in Hollow Rock. The following tombstones mark graves in the older section of this large cemetery.

SAMUEL W. PORTERFIELD Born June 4, 1847 Died Nov. 4, 1851

INFANT SON of J. H. & Nancy PORTERFIELD [no dates]

 

The combined tombstone of James H. Porterfield (1818-1873) and Nancy Porterfield (1827-1887), inscribed "Father" and "Mother" are in the same lot as the above children. Also, here, a fallen, broken tombstone, included because of its deterioration

In memory of
JANE PORTERFIELD
Died June 20, 1880
Aged 84 years

 

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MEBANE CEMETERY #2

Located at the corner (north) of Abbott Lane and Northwood Drive about 2.1 mile east of the latter's junction with High Street in Huntingdon, Tennessee.

JULIA consort of JOHN MEBANE Born Dec. 4, 1811 Died April 14, 1864

JAMES L. son of John & Julia MEBANE Born Dec. 16, 1834 Died Sept. 8, 1860

 

THOMPSON CEMETERY

According to Gordon B. Grooms (born 1923), who took the compiler to the site of this cemetery, he had a life-time knowledge of this graveyard as he was reared in that community. Sometime in the 1980s, a former landowner, now deceased, had workers remove the tombstones and bases completely and cast them into a hole and covered them up. Vinca marks the site now. Fortunately the data had been copied from the tombstones and these appear in CARROLL COUNTY CEMETERY RECORDS by the Carters, 1981, page 1028. Those relevant to this publication are given below.

Located about .1 mile south of Grooms Road, formerly U.S. Highway 70, from a point on this road about .6 mile of its juncture with the new U.S. Highway 70 (laid through here about 1951). It is in the woods slightly south in the southeast corner of Grooms Road and Bobbitt Road.

HANNAH THOMPSON Born Jan. 30, 1799 Died Mar. 24, 1854 C. P. THOMPSON Born Feb. 10, 1831 Died Nov. 13, 1861

J. G. THOMP SON Born Nov. 10, 1826 Died Sept. 27, 1860 ALMARINDA THOMPSON Born Jan. 21, 1838 Died May 8, 1853

 

SELLERS HILL CEMETERY

Located on the east side of Highway 22 about eight miles south of the public square in Huntingdon.

JOHN SELLERS Born June 19, 1782 Died Jan. 22, 1844 Our father may he rest in peace HENRIETTA wife of John SELLERS Born Nov. 4, 1784 Died July 24, 1866 Our mother may she rest in peace ELLENDER wife of John TOSH Born Jan. 30, 1805 Died Mar. 26, 1860 She died as she lived trusting in God [a fallen tombstone] JANE O. wife of W. H. McGEE & dau. of J. & E. TOSH Born Feb. 10, 1833 Died Oct. 1, 1859 All her pain and sorrows are over. A loving wife. J. White, Memphis [stonecutter] [According to mortality sch., 1860 census, she died in childbirth.]

WILLIAM H. McGEE Born near Lexington, Tenn. Feb. 10, 1825 Died in Metropolis, Ill. Dec. 16 A. D. 1864 Aged 39 ys 10 ms 6 ds NANCY wife of John W. Sellers Born July 25, 1820 Died Jan. 2, 1847 She died as she lived trusting in God. S. E. Dau. of J. W. & Telitha SELLERS Born Oct. 17, 1854 Died May 23, 1858 INFANT DAU. OF J. W. & Nancy SELLERS Born Sept. 5, 1840 Died Oct. 8, 1840 MARTHA C. Dau. of H. [Hardy] S. & S. M. SELLERS Born Mar. 8, 1857 Died Sept. 30, 1857

 

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JOHN M. Son of H. S. & S. M. SELLERS Born Sept. 15, 1850 Died Sept. 8, 1851 SUSAN Dau. of J. W. & Telitha SELLERS Born Sept. 11, 1858 Died June 23, 1859 GRANVILLE Son of John & E. TOSH Born Jan. 20, 1838 Died Nov. 7, 1858

M. L. Dau. of J. W. & Telitha SELLERS Born Dec. 29, 1856 Died Apr. 17, 1858 N. C. Dau. of J. W. & Telitha SELLERS Born Feb. 7, 1863 Died Mar. 5, 1864 FREDONIA C. Dau. of I. [Irvin] R. & F. [Frances] E. HAMPTON Died Aug. 2, 1865 aged 9 ms. Budded on earth to bloom in heaven

 

Note: In some sources the wife of J. W. Sellers is given as Tabitha Sellers but the tombstones clearly are inscribed TELITHA.

 

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