From Family Findings
Vol. I, No. 3, October 1969, p. 62
Copyright, Mid-West Tennessee Genealogical Society, 1969
Appears on this web site by permission

VANTRESSE FAMILY CEMETERY

VANTRESSE FAMILY CEMETERY, about 2½ miles southwest of Pinson, Tennessee, and 3/4 of a mile off the Casey Road, submitted by Miss Mary O. Holmes, 231 Jackson St., Jackson, Tenn., 38301. Any words in parenthesis are comments of Miss Holmes.

 

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VALENTINE, Husb. of Sarah Vantreese, Aug. 3, 1789-May 12, 1861
SARAH, Wife of Valentine Vantreese, Apr. 25, 1790-Apr. 12, 1856 (Sarah Gates, from other sources) (Double Marker)

TABITHA, Wife of John Vantrees, Apr. 13, 1819-Mar. 8, 1883, Living a Christian life forty six years "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"

(On One Marker)
JANE ANN, March 23, 1858-June 23, .1859
RICHARD O., May 10, 1861-July 16, 1871
Children of. John & Tabitha Vantreese

THOMAS N. VANTREESE, Died Apr.13, 1879, Age 25 yrs. and 1 day (Son of John & Tabitha Vantreese)

PLEZ S., Son of John & Tabitha Vantreese, Mar. 15, 1855-Mar. 25, 1881

According to Miss Holmes, VALENTINE VANTREESE married SARAH GATES. Their grandson JOHN W. VANTREESE (son .of John and Tabitha in the above cemetery record) married MARY FLORENCE GATES (in the Gates Family Bible Record on Page 51). It is not known if the two Gates women were related. The following census records apply to the above cemetery records:

Madison Co., Tenn., 1850, Visit 13, page 734, Dist. #1, 19 Nov., J. M. Parker, enumerator.

83-83	Volentine Vantrees (son of Valentine on cem. marker) Jane Alford (dau.on of Valentine on cemetery marker, widow of James Alford) Andrew V. (Alford) James M. T. (Alford)	36 32 8 6	Farmer	Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn.
84-84	John Vantreese (son of Valentine on cem. marker) Tabitha Poole (hers os one of markers in cemetery) William A. Benjamin JohnW. Mary F.	32 28 9 7 5 3		Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn. Tenn.