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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OLD PISGAH CEMETERY

This is a black-white cemetery located a short distance northeast of Hollow Rock, Tennessee. It is situated on the north side of Old Pisgah Road, reached by travelling Highway 114 north of Hollow Rock. This was once the location of the white Methodist congregation named Pisgah. There is a broad vista from the cemetery to the north and northeast.

 

VIDER WEATHERS, no dates CHARLIE EFFIE WEATHER 1907-1963 LUTHER LEE TAYLOR Tenn. PVT Co H 363 Inf., W.W.I March 19, 1889-February 16, 1971 CORINE STANFORD 1910-1985 CHARLIE WEATHERS, no dates WALTER LEWIS, no dates LOUIS WEATHERS Tenn. PVT QM Corps, W.W.II July 15, 1903-March 13, 1949 PRINCE UTLEY, no dates

COLA JOHNSON 1909-1967 ANNIE B. WEATHERS 1915-1985 FLORA EFFIE TAYLOR, Beloved Mother February 26, 1900-April 21, 1980 JEFFREY SCOTT LEWIS SRA U. S. Air Force September 29, 1967-September 12, 1992 BEAVIE WEBB Died March 5, 1958 JOHN ELDRIDGE LEWIS PFC U.S. Army, Korea September 23, 1932-July 31, 1999

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There are a number of older tombstones for whites, although some of these have been destroyed. Four copied by the present writer:
WILLIAM ROGERS, died February 6, 1842 aged about 72 years
WILLIAM JORDAN, born August 25, 1804; died January 18, 1860 aged 55 years, 3 mos., 23 days
SUSAN, wife of William JORDAN, born December 12, 1810; died October 11, 1873
NANCY, wife of W. Rogers, died March 24, 1866 aged 85 years, 2 mos. and 8 days.

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Death certificates indicate burials here of black folk:
JOHN McKINNEY, December 7, 1840-December 7, 1925, born Greenwood, Miss.; son of John M. McKinney, born Greenwood, Miss. and Mary Mossman, born Henderson County , Tennessee.
WILL DUNLAP, January 2, 1866-April 23, 1918
ELIZA GOOLSEY died January 13, 1924 aged about 85 years; dau of Henry Belew
HENDERSON SHOFFNER, March 22, 1844-July 18, 1918

Burials indicated in PISGAH CEMETERY, Cox Funeral Home records:
SARAH GREEN died December 19, 1933 aged 75 years
CLEM HICKS died February 21, 1937 aged 67 years
WALTER LEWIS died December 19, 1933 aged 60 years
HARRIETT ROGERS died April 6, 1941 - no age given
AMANDA SHOFFNER died January 13, 1865 aged 82 years; dau of Dave Shephard

NOTE: Buried in what became the cemetery for Nebo Baptist Church (now known as Nebo-Pisgah Cemetery) because it was then part of their own land, were JOHN WORKS who died an elderly man, June 7, 1939; his wife, LULA WORKS who died April 12, 1936 aged 60 years. He was a native of Davidson Co., Tenn.; she of Henry Co., Tenn.; they had no surviving children. In the 1910 Census, U.S., Carroll Co., CD 23, E. D. 40, Sht. 5, John Works is given as aged 46 years, native of Tennessee; Lula Works, aged 35 years, native of Tennessee; married 17 years; had one child, then deceased. Reverend R. B. Morgan recalled for the present writer that this couple, whom he remembered well, were members of Mt. Nebo Church; that while he had farmed he may have been a railroad employee also.

 

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