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.

HILLIARD CEMETERY

On page 16 of this supplement this cemetery is listed. Primarily a white burial ground it has a black section. Besides Mr. Dee Black, heretofore mentioned as having died about 1933, there are others buried in the Hilliard Cemetery, according to their death certificates (and doubtless others unknown to the compiler):

 

Supplement, Page 23

EUNA LEE MAY, Dec. 26, 1907-August 21, 1914. Parents: Newton May-Minnie Hilliard

FLORA HUDSON, died July 14, 1914; married

GOLDIE KNOX, April 11, 1897-Jan. l, 1918. Parents: Andrew Knox-Sopha Turley

FED HILLIARD, 1847-October 30, 1917

DEWITT MAY, November 4, 1918-March 6, 1919.Parents: T. B. May-Rhoda Knox

JOHNIE MAY HAUGHTON, died March 7, 1921, aged about 18 years. Parents: John Henry Turley-Isibel Robertson

 

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