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 HICO/HICO CEMETERY

From Highway 22, south of McKenzie, Tennessee, turn west onto Hico Road; drive about .3 mile to a sharp curve in the latter road; from that point walk with the barbed wire fence west through a wooded area to this hillside cemetery. There appear to be several hundred graves in this cemetery, only a few of which are marked.

GEORGIE ANN THARPE, Mother October 2, 1851-April 18, 1943 She lived and died a Christian J. /John/ IRON, no dates MYRTLE AKIN November 1909-July 3, 1940 MARY DINWIDDIE Died October 5, 1938 Aged 13 years Cox FH marker ELLIS SCOTT Born October 16, 1896 Died June 30, 1963 /son of Samuel and Mary Scott/ TOMEY HENDERSON Born May 4, 1854 Died May 4, 1918 Age 64 At rest (a fallen tombstone) TOM DUDLEY Born December 28, 1903 Died September 2, 1917 /son of Edd & Hannah Dudley/

CLARA GILBERT Died June 20, 1960 aged 62 years; Rawls FH marker /wife of Danker Gilbert/ EDWARD SNEED Georgia PVT Co H, 368 Inf. 92 Div., World War I August 15, 1897-August 2, 1963 EARLIE M. DUDLEY Born December 2, 1938 Died February 21, 1939 SAM SCOTT Died January 8, 1959 aged 54 years Ford FH marker /son of Samuel and Mary Scott/ EDD DUDLEY Born 1879 Died February 8, 1921 Age 42 years /husband of Hannah Gwin Dudley/ ELLA OGLESBY Born August 19, 1903 Died October 9, 1911 FRANKIE OGLESBY Born April 10, 1901 Died October 30, 1905

 

Death certificates indicate burials here:
MARTHA DINWIDDIE died February 23, 1925 aged about 84 years
MANDY DOUGLASS died April 8, 1916 aged about 70 years
MAJOR DOUGLASS died June 17, 1924 aged about 85 years

COX Funeral Home indicates burials here:
ADA GILBERT died April 10, 1951 aged 64 years
PRINK PRICE died October 22, 1946 aged 49 years
CLARA BEATRICE PRICE died March 31, 1951 /aged 14 months; dau of Ike and Vera Price/
DANKER GILBERT died April 23, 1954 aged 76 years
MARY GILBERT died July 8, 1945 aged 26 years
DICIE HENDERSON died May 16, 1937 aged 60 years; wife of J. W.
LOUISE HENDERSON died August 19, 1956 aged 44 years; dau of Danker Gilbert

 

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NOTE ONE:
A short distance south of Old Hico/Hico Cemetery, .l mile west from the Juncture of Highway 22 and Vernon Thomas Road, about .2 mile south of the latter road, was a cemetery where burials ceased about sixty-five years or more ago, an older Hico Cemetery; remembered now by only a few older local residents, this cemetery was obliterated later and now is part of a residential site.

NOTE TWO:
A short distance from Old Hico/Hico Cemetery was located, about .5 mile from Highway 22 over Airport Lane, at a site now occupied by the Plumley building and parking area, was once located the family cemetery of JOHN HANNA (1804-1893) and wife, JANE HANNA (1804-1870) and several members of their family. In August 1987 their remains and tombstones were removed to nearby Shiloh Cemetery. Buried there, in unmarked graves, were about six blacks, including a former slave of the Hannas, ANN HANNA (November 1842-190?) whose grave and those of the other blacks being unmarked were not exhumed and were built over.

 

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