CLOVER CREEK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
This cemetery is located on the south side of Clover Creek Missionary Baptist Church. The church is located south of Medon, Tennessee, on the west side of State Highway 18, about a mile south of the white Clover Creek Baptist Church and cemetery. Ther church but not the cemetery is visible from the highway. More than a dozen graves are either unmarked or marked temporary markers without information, mostly on the south side of the cemetery at the edge of the woods.
David Donahue recorded this cemetery on September 15, 2003 based on earlier work by Jonathan K. T. Smith. Mr. Smith's 1995 record appears in his Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Madison County, Tennessee and a 2000 update appears in his Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Madison County, Tennessee, Volume 2. These works are referred to collectively as Smith in the notes below. Smith noted that the church was founded in 1856.
Agins, Mary Inez [see Jones, Mary Inez Agins]
Alston, Ella, Dec. 13, 1904-Aug. 10, 1987
Alston, George, 1902-1966
Bowie, Jewell L., May 20, 1944-Apr. 29, 1994
Brooks, Austin Donnell, August 8, 1998-Oct. 3, 1998
Brown, Booker T., Sr., Mar. 6, 1924-June 7, 2002
Brown, Bernice M., Apr. 27, 1926-____Chism, Octavia, Nov. 10, 1884-May 7, 1961
Chism, Robert, Jan. 9, 1879-Feb. 26, 1963
Chism, Robert H., Aug. 8, 1911-Nov. 15, 1990, "Father"
Chism, Stonewall, Sr., Oct. 6, 1919-July 19, 1988, "Daddy"
Chism, Susie, Oct. 4, 1922-Nov. 27, 1994, "Our mother"
Chism, William, Nov. 10, 1884-May 7, 1961
Collins, Hattie, Oct. 31, 195-Apr. 25, 1972
Cunningham, Brandee Michel, d. Sept. 20, 1998 [infant-style marker]
Dawkins, Jennifer N., d. June 27, 1986, Age 17 Mons. [not foundd in 2003; reported by Smith in 1995]
Gladney, Charles, d. Died June 3, 2000 [not found in 2003; reported by Smith in 2000]
Gladney, Clodie, Sr.,d. Jan. 16, 1989, temporary marker, Stephenson-Shaw Funeral Home, 5½ yards north of marker for Hattie Collins
Gladney, Hattie, Mrs., d. Dec. 26, 1967, Age 83, temporary marker, Dixie Funeral Home Marker, Bolivar, Tenn., 3 feet north of marker for Hattie Collins
Hampton, Luther L., May 26, 1918-Oct. 20, 1984, military marker "PFC US Army World War II"
Holloway, Sandra Kay, May 3, 1951-Jan. 7, 1983
Jones, Mary Inez Agins, Dec. 10, 1939-Apr. 15, 1984
Love, ______, Mr., d. Mar. 12, 1977, temporary marker, Dixie Funeral Home, Bolivar, Tennessee, 7 feet north of marker for Hattie Collins
Mackey, Joe Louis, 1936-1950, temporary marker, Stephenson, 10 feet west of marker for William Chism
Mackey, Mable L., 1908-1950, Age 41, temporary marker, Stephenson, 3 yards west-northwest of marker for Octavia Chism
McBride, Rachel N., May 17, 1890-Nov. 13, 1981
Mosley, Clinton Z., Oct. 30, 1918-Nov. 6, 1984 [has military marker which was improperly set on its edge, sank into the grave, and in 2003 was totally unreadable]
Mosley, Adella, Aug. 17, 1911-____Mosley, James M., Oct. 4, 1927-June 10, 1992, military marker as footstone "US Army Korea"
Mosley, Beatrice C., Dec. 3, 1943-____Mosley, Tom, Sept. 10, 1894-March 16, 1950, military marker "Tennessee Pvt 320 Service Bn QMC World War I"
Mosley, Zacariah, Aug. 6, 1894-June 4, 1992, military marker as footstone "Pvt US Army World War II"
Mosley, Elner, Mar. 31, 1894-July 12, 1975
[main marker partially sunken, with dates unreadable; Zachariah's dates are from military marker, Elner's dates are those reported by Smith in 1995]Newsom, Canary, July 23, 1914-Apr. 2, 1969, "Mrs." "Mother"
Newsom, Frank, Mar. 10, 1912-May 26, 1966, military marker "PFC Enl Res Corps"
Newsom, Walter W., July 5, 1907-Sept. 16, 1976
Newsom, William Milton, Feb. 2, 1907-Mar. 14, 1964
Newsome, Fannie, May 17, 1888-May 5, 1979, "Mother"
Newsome, Roscoe, Apr. 13, 1888-Oct. 8, 1965, "Father"Reeves, Edna Bernice, Oct. 11, 1950-Dec. 1, 1950 [replacement]
Reeves, Hubert, Dec. 4, 1910-Sept 11, 1992
Reeves, Richard Dallas, Mar. 24, 1944-Dec. 27, 2001, "Husband, father, & grandfather"
Smith, Beadie, Jan. 28, 1888-Nov. 3, 1966
Smith, Jamie G., Mar. 7, 1916-Aug. 19, 1970
Smith, Lee Tom, May 1, 1871-Apr. 26, 1945
Yarbrough, Porter, Jr., Mar. 13, 1937-Dec. 9, 2000
Yarbrough, Rosezenner Animos, Dec. 25, 1910-July 26, 1997