MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE
INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK PART II
By Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1992
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GRAVESTONES REPORTED IN MY FIRST RIVERSIDE SCRAPBOOK
[HTML editor's note: The lot numbers appearing in brackets below do not appear in Scrapbook Part II but have been added for this HTML presentation.]
IKE JACKSON, page 6
[Listed as "unknown burial site" in Tombstone Inscriptions]
In trying to read available Jackson newspaper coverage for the Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, I stumbled over the following about Ike Jackson.
WHIG-TRIBUNE, April 26, 1862:
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LIEUT. I. M. JACKSON Lieut. I. M. JACKSON was born in Halifax County, Virginia. He came when a boy to Jackson, Tennessee, where he has since lived, with the exception of six years spent in California. Our whole community laments deeply the untimely end of one so brave, so generous, so noble. It may be said truly that he had endeared himself to all. His fine, manly face was a true index to his heart. |
St. Luke Episcopal Church burial register indicates that Lt. Ike Jackson's final burial place was in the city cemetery, i.e. Riverside.
St. Luke Episcopal Church records reveal that Henry Kemp Jackson, son of Isaac and Sarah E. Jackson, was baptized April 10, 1862 and DIED April 11, 1862 and was buried in the city (Riverside) Cemetery.
ELROD, paqe 9
[Lots 341-B and 342-B in Tombstone Inscriptions]
THE JACKSON GAZETTE, Jackson, Tenn., Aug. 30, 1862.
Mention of recent marriage of James Elrod of Jackson. Tenn. to Sarah, daughter of Major Wm. Woodfolk of Jackson County, Tennessee.
TURLEY, pages 14, 40
[Lots 406-B and 407-B in Tombstone Inscriptions]
R. H. Cartmell, Diary, volume 33, page 60, May 1913.
Cartmell noted the recent death, and he heard of it, May 3rd, of Mary Turley, daughter of Judge Wm. B. Turley; went to Texas. He supposed she was about age 80.
In the genealogy files of the Jackson/Madison County Public Library, Turley notes, is a photocopy of a letter of March 21, 1884, Seguin. Texas, from Marian Turley Henderson to A. W. Campbell, Jackson, Tenn. She was a daughter of Judge W. B. Turley. She wrote, "The names of my fathers parents ware Sampson Turley and Sarah Bronaugh. He was born in Alexandria, Va. in the year 1800. . . . My father married Miss Annie C. Payne, Russellville, Ky. in May 1822, I think. . . . (He) died May 27, 1851.
MAGDA, page 8
[Scrapbook entry on p. 8 referred to Lot 399-A in Tombstone Inscriptions; the Magda lot is Lot 193½ in Tombstone Inscriptions]
According to records of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Jackson, JOHN MAGDA, living in Jackson, son of Martin and Petronella Magda, was married to Josephine Beiswingert, a daughter of Edward Beiswingert, Feb. 22, 1887. Several children were born to them, their baptismal records being in St. Mary's baptismal register.
STEPHEN SYPERT, page 37
[Lots 230-231 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
TRIBUNE-SUN, Jackson, April 1. 1880:
Died. Mary Sypert, March 28, aged 82 years; in home of son-in-law, H. N. Curtis, Jackson.
Family Findings, Mid-West Genealogical Society, Jackson, volume 5, no. 4, Oct. 1973, page 133, abstract mentions of pension file of MANY SYPERT, applying for pension based on the War of 1812 service of her late husband, Stephen Sypert, whom she married as Mary P. Brame, April 6. 1819. Their daughter's marriage was recorded also: May L. Sypert to Horace H. Curtis, Aug. 31, 1853.
THEUS, page 15
{Lots 388-A and B; 389-A and B in Tombstone Inscriptions]
The article by Campbell Symonds, entitled, "A Memorial Window in First Baptist Church Here," which appeared in THE JACKSON SUN, March 12, 1944, states that a stained-glass memorial window was to be seen in the former church of First Baptist Church in downtown Jackson. I could not find it on my visit to this place, now the Lighthouse United Pentecostal Church. Its thoughtful and kindly pastor, the Reverend Mr. Ronald L. Brown, assisted me in looking throughout this church for such a window, without success. It was evidently removed at some time since 1944.
A. JACKSON, page 10
[Lon 296½ in Tombstone Inscriptions]
In THE JACKSON WEEKLY SUN, June 17, 1898:
Died. Mrs. Eunice B. Jackson, June 13, 1898. Mother of Sam Jackson. Burial in Jackson. Abt. 80 years old.
(This was the third wife of Dr. Alexander Jackson, 1805-1879.)
J. R. TAYLOR, page 34
[Lot 311 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
In the JACKSON DAILY SUN, May 31, 1903:
Died, May 24, in Jackson, Mrs. SARAH REBECCA TAYLOR, 86 years, 5 months and 2 weeks. Came to Jackson at age 7; md. at age 16 to James R. Taylor; buried in Riverside Cemetery.
The stained glass window in the former First Baptist Church, downtown Jackson, read: MEMORIAL TO SARAH TAYLOR. THIS WOMAN WAS FULL OF GOOD WORKS & ALMS DEEDS WHICH SHE DID.
CAMPBELL, page 16
[Lot 296 in Tombstone inscriptions]
R. H. Cartmell, Diary, vol. 10, page 97, July 28, 1892:
Noticed in Whig yesterday the death of Mrs. Louise Campbell. 2d wife of the late John E. Campbell and married before to Dixon Allen who lived but a short time. He died at Gallatin, Tenn. on 25th Oct. 1834 of congestive fever, aged 28 years. He had been a member of the Legislature 2 terms. (She) was a daughter of Gen'l. Gibbs, who lived and owned the land on which Union City is located. . . .
CHAPPELL, page 23
[Lot 226 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
In the TRIBUNE-SUN, Jackson, July 19, 1878:
Mrs. J. R. Chappell died in Atlanta, Texas, July 14; widow; mother of Miss Narcissa Chappell; sister of P. D. W. Conger.
HOLLAND, page 5
[Lot 256½ in Tombstone Inscriptions]
Regarding WILLIAM HOLLAND. A volunteered statement in THE JACKSON SUM, June 29, 1877:
Mr. Holland was trained in mercantile business by one of the most successful merchants of Greenville, South Carolina and has proven himself worthy of his preceptor and his career in this city is eminently meritorious and successful. He also has an untarnished record as a Southern soldier, having entered the Confederate service in 1861 and continued in the same until the Southern Cross went down on the dreary field of Appomattox. After several years of successful merchandizing in Greenville, he came to this city in the autumn of 1871.
ALEX. A. CAMPBELL, page 35
[Lot 410-A in Tombstone Inscriptions]
ANNALS OF THE AMERICAM PULPIT, by William S. Sprague, D.D., volume 4 (New York, 1858). My copy of this sketch was sent to me from the Presbyterian Department of History, Montreat, North Carolina.
Page 651: ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL
Alexander Augustus Campbell, a son of Captain Francis and Nancy (Barnet) Campbell, was born in Amherst County, Va., December 30, 1789. He spent his early years at home and had only the advantages for education furnished by the common schools of that day, until, at the age of about eighteen or nineteen, he commenced the study of medicine. Having studied for some time under the direction at Dr. Patton of Danville. Pa., he went to Philadelphia and completed his studies at the Medical School in that city, where he graduated is the year 1811.
In his boyhood he was at one time much concerned in regard to his eternal interests; but, while he was studying with a view to his profession, he became aceptical and tried hard to divest himself of a belief of the Divine existence. While attending the Lectures at Philadelphia, he was attacked with yellow fever and in his case, even in the judgement of his physicians, became hopeless.
Page 452 is largely taken up with an account of how Campbell "solemnly lifted up his soul to Heaven in an earnest prayer that, if I was in an error, God would be pleased to make it manifest to me by restoring me again to health and then would serve Him during the rest of my days.") Also, page 452: On his return from Philadelphia in 1811 he settled as a medical practitioner in Leakesville, N.C.; but in 1814 he removed back to Virginia and settled in Goochland County, where he renamed between two and three years. In 1817, he removed to Huntsville, Ala. As he grew in Christian knowledge and spirituality, he began to cherish the desire and ultimately formed the purpose to devote himself to the ministry of the Gospel. He at length abandoned the practice of medicine as a profession, studied theology under the Rev. Gideon Blackburn, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of North Carolina. On the 3d of April 1822., he was ordained by the same Presbytery as an Evangelist, on the 29th of September 1823. Mr. Campbell performed his earliest labors in the ministry as an itinerant, but in 1834, he removed to Tuscumbia, Ala. and officiated as a stated (Page 653) supply at that place and at Russellville, for about four years. In 1828 he was invited to take charge at the Church at Florence, Ala. but declined the call on the ground that the salary that was offered him was inadequate to the support of his family and besides he had already made arrangements to remove to the Western District of Tennessee, where he had actually purchased lands and made preparations for opening a farm. He, however, remained two years at Florence and his labours there were greatly blessed. . . . He left Florence in the winter at 1829-30 and removed to Haywood County in western Tennessee, where he preached as a missionary, traveling almost the whole District, organizing churches and sowing seed which has since yielded a rich harvest. In the autumn of 1832, he was invited to take charge of the Church in Jackson, Tenn. He accepted the invitation, removed thither and was installed Pastor of the Church on the 3d of October 1833. Here he remained labouring most diligently and faithfully until his ministrations were suddenly broken oft by death . . . on the 27th of May 1846, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. . . .
On the 12th at December 1812, he was married to Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Margaret Boyce. They had seven children — five sons and two daughters — all of whom he lived to see in the Communion of the Church. Two of his sons became ministers of the Gospel. The elder is now (1857) (Page 654) stated supply of the Church in Brownsville, Tenn. The younger, George Alexander, was born July 27, 1824 at Tuscumbia, Ala; was graduated at West Tennessee College, Jackson; was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of the Western District of Tennessee, July 1853; and died of a pulmonary affliction on the 27th of May 1855. He was a young man of lovely character and high promise. Mr. Campbell's widow still survives and resides in Jackson, Tenn. Mr. Campbell published a tract on the design and use of baptism and another work on the same subject, entitled "Scripture Baptism" 1844.
(Page 654: letter from the Rev. James Holmes, Professor in the West Tennessee College in Jackson, dated April 18, 1857; evidently to W. B. Sprague, in which he wrote at length about the Rev. A. A. Campbell, closing with (page 655), "Like every man of decision and earnestness, he had some enemies during his lifetime but this feeling was hushed at his death end his loss is deeply mourned by a large circle of acquaintances.)
RUSSELL, page 23
[Lot 165 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
Regarding the death date of JESSE RUSSELL, Sr. He died October 20, 1889, rather than 1859. In a land settlement case dated June 8, 1889 (Madison Co. Court Min. Bk. 1, paqe 120, "The age of Jesse Russell is 86 years." IBID, page 203, he was given as deceased in November 1889.
WHIG-TRIBUNE, Jackson, Dec. 23,. 1871:
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The first marriage ceremony ever performed in the town of Jackson united Miss Nancy Sevier, a daughter of Charles Sevier, a soldier in the War of 1812, under Gen. Jackson, to Mr. Jeesse D. Russell. They were married in 1823 and having the honor to be the parents of the first male child born in Jackson. They have had eight children, all living, the youngest being 26 years of age. . . . Health and clear minds bless their old age. |
HASKELL, page 12
[Lot 326½ in Tombstone Inscriptions]
William T. Haskell
July 21, 1818-Mar. 12, 1859
From the BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS, 1774-1971 (Washington, D.C., 1971), page 1084:
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HASKELL, William T. (nephew of Charles Ready), a Representative from Tennessee, born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tenn., July 21, 1818; privately tutored; also attended public schools of Murfreesboro and the University of Nashville, Tennessee; fought in the Seminole War in 1836, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Jackson, Tenn.; member of the State house of representatives in 1840 and 1841, served in Mexican War;; appointed on May 13, 1846, as Colonel of the First Brigade, Second Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers; elected as Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); resumed the practice of his profession, died in an asylum in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., March 12, 1859; interment in Riverside Cemetry, Jackson, Tenn. |
IBID., page 1590. Sketch about Charles Ready, uncle of W. T. Haskell. Ready, who lived in Rutherford Co., Tenn., served in Congress, 1853-1859.
W. T. Haskell s father, Joshua, was in Madison Co. by Feb. 1824, when he bought land there as a resident. (Madison Co. Dd. Bk. 1, page 246) In Feb. 1836, a tract of land was legally placed in trust for Nancy Ready Haskell, wife of Joshua Haskell, a gift from her father, Charles Ready; land bought from Adam Huntsman, about a half-mile east of Jackson. (IBID. Dd. Bk. 4, page 452)
On Jan. 3, 1853, W. T. Haskell made to A. W. Campbell, the place "near Jackson," on an extension of Main Street, where Haskell was "now living" (formerly known as the Tanyard Lot). Campbell did not record the deed until after Haskell's death, registering it April 12, 1859. (Madison Co. Dd. Bk. 21, page 290)
W. T. Haskell married Sarah Porter, in Henry Co., Tenn., Feb. 7, 1838. They had children: Shephard P., William C., Joshua, Viola, Anna and Mary. Sarah's name may have been Sarah Paralee. She is referred to in moat records as Paralee Haskell.
Mrs. Paralee Haskell, widow of W. T. Haskell, was the first woman state librarian of Tenn., appointed in 1871.
SCURLOCK, page 223
[Lot 331 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
R. M. Cartmell, Diary vol. 21. page 52, April 9. 1909:
Mrs. Fannie Long, dau. of T. P. Scurlock and granddau. of Ada. Huntsman, lived near Columbia, Tn. died recently. She had bros. Jo & Clarence & 2 other daughters (sic).
IBID., volume 4, May 14, 1882:
He attended the "burial of Mrs. Ann Scurlock (Miss Ann . Huntsman) aged about 59 or 60. I would suppose a daughter of Adam Huntsman, an old citizen of this county."
JOBE, page 6
[Lot 385-B in Tombstone Inscriptions]
R. H. Cartmell, Diary, vol. 23, July 14, 1906:
A. K. Jobe was buried today. "His grandfather Job (Jobe) was an early settler in Jackson, both died in Jackson, Grand F. & Mother. A. K. J. was born in Columbus, Miss. in 1866; moved to Jackson about 1885.
"Job or Jobe Family in America," compiled by Mrs. Fannie Job, McGuire, Birmingham, Ala. Donated to the Jackson/Madison Co. Pub. Library by Ed Robinson, Oct. 1891. Andrew Job was living in Davidson Co., Tenn. and was 21 before he knew his correct age. Then an aunt told him he had been born in Muhlenburg Co., Ky. on Feb. 4th 1800. . . . His mother had died so he went to Paris, Tenn., evidently to some relatives. . . . He only stayed a few years, then went to Jackson, Tenn. ANDREW JOBE md. LUCINDA BROOKS, born Charlotte Co., Va. 1804; died Jackson, Tenn., Sept. 2, 1841. Andrew's dates: Feb. 4, 1800-Aug. 28. 1870. Children: l. Samuel Miller Jobe, 1831-1878, who lived in Memphis, Tenn. 2. Susan Haiwina Jobe, 1834-1913, who md. Wm. Benj. Hawkins. 3. Lucinda Isabella Jobe, b. 1836, md. Mark Crawford. 4. Wm. Levi Jobe, 1840. 1897, and moved to Columbus, Miss.; father of Andrew Krecker Jobe (1866-1906), jeweler of Jackson.
Hubbard, page 19
[Lot 256½ in Tombstone Inscriptions]
Picture . . . of the Reverend Benjamin H. Hubbard (d. 1853), Methodist minister and teacher at the female institute in Jackson.
(Picture courtesy of Lambuth University Archives)
McCORRY, page 4
[Lots 345-347 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
St. Mary's Catholic Church, Jackson; its records reveal that Musidora C. Ellener, Mary, Corrina McCorry and Corrina Henderson were baptized members of this faith at St. Mary's, December 1866, by the Rev. Francis O'Brien. Musidora A. McCorry, dau. of Henry McCorry and Luci P. Cole McCorry, was so baptized, April 17, 1892 (and she was born Oct 3, 1881).
Among the McCorry genealogical data in the Jackson/Madison Co. Public Library, is a photocopy of family data pages in the Bible published in Philadelphia. Pa.,1834 and once owned by J. P. Clark.
"Thos. McCorry was born 5th Oct. 1776, at the town of Noneymone, County Derry, Ireland. Sally Jones Parker whose parents were . . . of Sussex County, Va.; fled before the Brittish in 1780 & William Parker placed his wife & two children in a fort on Watauga river, commanded by John Sevier returning to the Virginia army. In that fort 8th April 1780 Sally J. Parker was born. Thomas McCorry & Sally J. Parker were married at Rodgersville 12th Nov. 1801. They were the parents of nine children: Susan Hunt, Jane Woods, William Parker, Frances Parker, Henry Woods, Sally Jane, Mary Parker, Musidora Clarke & Eleanor Nichols. Susan Hunt McCorry, born 30th August 1802, was married . . . June 26, 1820 to Jonas P. Clark, who was born 5th Oct. 1797. They were the parents of fourteen children. . . ."
The first of the Jonas Payne Clark children was Thomas Clark born May 24, 1821. Noted: James Payne Clark died Feb. 6, 1863.
Susan H. Clark died Nov. 18, 1883.
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