TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM BLACK CEMETERIES
IN CARROLL COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Compiled by Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2000

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OWENS CEMETERY

Located about five and a half miles east of Huntingdon, Tennessee off the Buena Vista and Cole Roads, in the field behind the Robert Johnson residence and on the farm of Harold Miller. This is an abandoned black and white cemetery, the numerous blacks being buried on the east side.

ELLEN CHAMBLISS, wife of Orange Died October 8, 1897 aged about 75 yrs DANIEL MORROW Died November 12, 1912

SARAH MORROW Born 1833 Died July 21, 1911

 

Death certificates indicate burials here:
LAURA BRADFORD, 1872-June 13, 1904; dau of Sam and Lizzie Pearson
GREEN HARRIS died November 19, 1923 aged 52 years
JANE OWENS, 1840-April 30, 1920; dau of Jim and Tempy Morgan
CALLIE KING, August 3, 1888-August 22, 1916
GILBERT PARKER died May 16, 1914 aged 70 years
NERVIE KING died December 27, 1917 aged about 88 years; dau of Charles and Easter Owens
RICHARD HARRIS died March 10, 1922 aged about 74 years
HURLEY ROYAL, December 25, 1910-December 20, 1914
MARTHA POWELL died December 2, 1917 aged about 80 years

 

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