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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WOODS CEMETERY

Located in the Rosser community. From U.S. Highway 70 enter Northwood Drive and go about .5 mile, turn into the driveway of Mrs. Parnell Taylor from whose yard one may walk about .2 mile northwest through fields to the copse of trees in which this cemetery is situated. Most of the tombstones have fallen.

JAMES PHILLIPS Born March 1832 Died October 28, 1904 At rest RUBEN WOODS Born September 15, 1869 Died August 18, 1906 HULAN FOULKS February 14, 1916-Aug. 20, 1934 18 yrs. 6 mos. 6 ds. ROGER LEE FOULKS Born February 25, 1931 Died January 8, 1948 Gone but not forgotten

JULIUS RIDLEY April 21, 1852-May 26, 1906 ALICE WOODS December 20, 1880-July 24, 1938 EASTER PEARSON, Mother Born 1840 Died 1880 (a broken, fallen tombstone) VIRGIE FOULKS 1900-1952

 

Death certificates indicate burials here:
P. D. PARKER, March 11, 1872-April 8, 1925
GUS PHILLIPS died February 23, 1922 aged about 70 years
ESSIE BUTLER, June 15, 1895-February 25, 1924; dau of Reuben Woods
MARY PHILLIPS died January 20, 1920 aged about 95 years
ROSA MAY WOODS, August 5, 1916-November 19, 1916; dau of William and Martha Woods

Cox Funeral Home indicates burials:
JANE HEGLAR died August 19, 1938 aged 95 years
JESSIE McCAIN died December 27, 1941 aged 45 years

 

1900 U.S. Census (June 30), Civil District 23, Carroll County, Tennessee. Enumerator District 135, Sheet 21-B:

RUBEN WOODS, born Sept. 1854, Tennessee; farmer ALLICE WOODS, wife, born Dec. (yr. unkn), Tenn.; eight children JIM WOODS, son, born March 1882, Tennessee NOLA WOODS, daughter, born February 1884, Tennessee AGENT WOODS, son, born February 1887, Tennessee WILLIAM WOODS, son, born September 1889, Tennessee URSY WOODS, daughter, born June 1890, Tennessee ORIN WOODS, son, born April 1894, Tennessee WHILHELLA WOODS, daughter, born February 1897 , Tennessee GERTRUDE WOODS, daughter, born February 1900, Tennessee

 

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