TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM BLACK CEMETERIES IN MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, compiled by Jonathan K. T. Smith

COPYRIGHT, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1995

Special thanks go to Jonathan K. T. Smith for his work to preserve and share this information about black cemeteries in Madison County and for giving permission to convert this work to web pages.

MAP LOCATIONS OF BLACK
CEMETERIES IN MADISON COUNTY,
TENNESSEE

            Prepared by Mr. JAMES H. HANNA, civil engineer (ret.) ,Jackson, Tennessee, based on his fieldwork, using a list of black cemeteries with approximate locations furnished him by Mr. Jonathan Smith. Mr. Hanna marked the cemeteries on the map segments herein reproduced with triangles and numerals in order to designate specific locations of individual cemeteries. These map segments are part of the 1985 base map of Madison County, Tennessee prepared by the Planning Division, Bureau of Planning and Development, Tennessee Department of Transportation and are used in this publication as a courtesy of this agency. Mr. Hanna extended permission (on February 8,1995) to Mr.Smith to use "Map Locations of Black Cemeteries in Madison County, Tennessee" in Smith's supplement to his publication, TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM BLACK CEMETERIES IN MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE.

MAP #1

 1. Providence Cemetery
 2. Johnson Grove Cemetery
 3. St. John Church Cemetery #1
 4. Epperson Cemetery
 5. Brooks Cemetery
 6. McClellan Cemetery
 7. Walnut Grove Cemetery
 8. Bethlehem Church Cemetery #2
 9. Cole Cemetery

MAP #4

 1. Lane Chapel. Cemetery
 2. St. John Church Cemetery #2
 3. Denmark Baptist Church Cemetery
 4. Denmark C.M.E. Church Cemetery
 5. Greater Mercer Memorial Gardens
 6. Ebenezer Cemetery
 7. Mt. Olive Cemetery
 8. Bethlehem Cemetery #1
 9. Merriwether Cemetery

 

MAP #2

 1. Bascom Chapel Cemetery
 2. Hicks-Exum Cemetery
 3. Montgomery Cemetery
 4. Anderson Cemetery
 5. Brown's Chapel Cemetery
 6. Pleasant Plains Cemetery
 7. Parkway Memorial Gardens
 8. Mt. Olivet Cemetery
 9. Riverside Cemetery
10. Greater St. Luke Cemetery
11. Elmwood Cemetery
12. Meachem Cemetery
13. Brown-Askev Cemetery
14. Old Hicks Place Cemetery
15. Deloach Cemetery
16. Gill Cemetery
17. Hollywood Cemetery
18. Highland Memorial Cemetery
19. Glenn Cemetery

MAP #5

 1. Cerro Gordo Cemetery
 2. Bobbitt Cemetery
 3. Blairs Chapel Cemetery
 4. Mt. Tabor Cemetery
 5. Marshall Cemetery
 6. Croom Cemetery
 7. St. Paul Church Cemetery
 8. Cane Creek Church Cemetery
 9. Lester Chapel Road Cemetery
10. Oak Grove Cemetery
11. Whitehall Pentecostal Cemetery
12. Clover Creek Cemetery
13. Medon C.M.E. Church Cemetery
14. Old Liberty Grove Cemetery
15. Boon Cemetery
16. Currie Cemetery
17. Hill Cemetery

 

MAP #3

 1. New Carmel Cemetery
 2. Berry Zion Cemetery
 3. Union Hill Cemetery
 4. Hurts Chapel Cemetery
 5. Salem-Morning Star Cemetery
 6. Center Point Cemeteries
 7. Church of Israel Cemetery
 8. Isaiah Chapel Cemetery
 9. Old Carmel Cemetery
10. Poor House Cemetery (general location)
11. Rilliard Cemetery
12. Grant Cemetery
13. Key Cemetery
14. Donnell Cemetery
15. Rogers Cemetery
16. Laniers's Chapel

MAP #6

 l. Beech Grove C.M.E. Church Cemetery
 2. Big Springs Cemetery
 3. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
 4. Pleasant Hill Cemetery
 5. Woods Cemetery
 6. Old Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
 7. Zion Hill Cemetery
 8. Rogers Cemetery
 9. Rose Hill Cemetery

 

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