MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE
INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK PART II
By Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1992
NOTES BY LOT
ANDERSON LOT, NO. 203
One obelisk monument:
(south side)
In Memory of
WILLIAM T. ANDERSON
Born in
Sullivan Co., Tenn.
May 24. 1804
D/Apr. 8, 1870
(north side)
MAHALA WISDOM
wife of
Wm T. ANDERSON
Born in
Overton Co., Tenn.
Mar. 3, 1806
D/Feb. 14, 1890
One obelisk monument:
(south side)
JAMES V. ANDERSON
B/May 31, 1835
D/June 16, 1879
(north side)
ELLEN DUNAWAY ANDERSON
B/Aug. 22, 1839
D/May 16, 1908
Aged 69 Yrs. & 9 Mos.
R. H. Cartmell Diary, vol. 4, page 117, June 18, 1879:
James W. Anderson died yesterday, buried 18th. He was "a clever man, good citizen." Bro. of Hugh Anderson who md. Hellen Bond.
From "The Anderson Family" in genealogical files, Jackson/Madison Co. Public Library, no author cited. Children of Wm. Taylor Anderson and Mahala Wisdom Anderson: Mary Caroline who md. Joseph L. Rushing: Telitha Jane who md. William K. Walsh, Euphrasia Eveline who md. Robert Stribling; Susan, twice md.; James Wisdom who md. Ellen B. Dunaway; Eleanor who md. B. Rufus Harris; Thomas B. who md. Martha Walker; John H. who md. Sallie Temple; Neil Publius who md. Elizabeth Howard; Hu Crump who md. (1) Helen Bond; (2) Emma Burdette; (3) Lena Myers; several infants.
Wm. T. Anderson is sometimes cited as having been born May 4, 1804, but his tombstone states May 24. Ditto. James W Andersons death date, but it is June 16, 1879 on his stone.
DADO LOT, NO. 134
[Lot 133-C in Tombstone Inscriptions]
S. D. BARNETT
D/Apr. 3, 1878
Aged 45 years
TRIBUNE-SUN, Jackson, April 5. 1878:
Samuel D. Barnett died April 3, aged abt. 43 years. Left wife and one child. Seen in Jackson a few years. Clerk of the Madison Co. Court.
ANDERSON & OTHERS LOT, NO. 221
[Lot 221, north, in Tombstone Inscriptions]
HUGH C. ANDERSON
1851-1915
An Honest Man's the Noblest Work of God
EMMA BURDETTE
wife of
Hugh C. ANDERSON
B/Oct. 12, 1863
D/Mar. 22, 1892
WHP'S WHO IN TENNESSEE, 1911, p. 185:
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ANDERSON, Hugh Crump, banker; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Feb. 9. 1831; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William Taylor and Mahala (Wisdom) Anderson; father's occupation, farmer, merchant; paternal grandparents Thomas and Mary (Davis) Anderson; maternal grandparents, James and Susan (Seargent) Wisdom; educated at West Tennessee College, Jackson. Tenn., and Cuinberland University, Lebanon, graduated from latter Law department with B. L. degree in 1873; entered the practice of law early life at Jackson, Tenn.; married three times, first, Helen Bond, Nov. 1876, second, Emma Burdette, May, 1888, third, Lena Myers, Sept. 1895; member Elks, Masons, and K. P.; Democrat; served two years as City Attorney of Jackson, Tenn., 1874-1875; Mayor 1884; later fifteen years as Mayor of Jackson, 1893-1906; member of Legislature of Tenn., 1879, also 1861; Tenn. Com. to Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904; Election Commissioner of Madison Co.; Director of Tenn. Centennial, 1896; served as Asst. U.S Attorney under Cleveland's first administration, for Western District of Tenn.; at present he is Trustee of University of Tenn.; has been member of the Board of Education in Jackson, Tenn, for 16 years; and for twenty-two years President of Peoples' Savings Bank, Jackson, Tenn. |
In addition to the biographical information in the 1911 Who's Who book, it say be noted that Hugh (Hu) Crump Anderson served in the Senate of Tennessee, 59th General Assembly, 1915-1917, but died in office as Speaker Mar. 1, 1915.
BLEDSOE LOT, NO. 304
(south side)
HORACE G. BLEOSOE
Soldier of the Mexican War
B/Oct. 31, 1810
D/Feb. 10, 1891
(north side)
ELIZABETH H.
wife of Horace G. BLEDSOE
B/June 11, 1812
D/Dec. 29, 1895
Official Mexican War records reveal that Horace G. Bledsoe was a Sgt. in Co. G., Second Tenn. Infantry, May 22, 1846, was discharged May 25, 1847, in New Orleans.
CONNOR LOT, NO. 67
[Lot 67-B, south, in Tombstone Inscriptions]
W. H. CONNOR
B/July 19, 1819
D/Sept. 14, 1881
TRIBUNE-SUN, Jackson, Sept 16, 1881:
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Fatal Difficulty On Wednesday afternoon, 14t-inst., a difficulty occurred near the Union depot in this city, between Wm. H. Conner, a carpenter, and Frank Strother, a brickmason, in which Conner met his death by a pistol shot fired by Strother. We do not propose to go into the particulars of the cause of the trouble, but it seems that Strother wished to marry the daughter of the deceased, to which objection was made by the parents of the girl. It appears that Strother was at the depot awaiting a train to take him somewhere up the road and passed between two freight cars for some purpose when Connor seized a piece of barrel hoop and followed and assaulted him with it. He then attempted to escape by flight but was pursued and again assaulted with the hoop when he turned and shot his, the ball entering the heart. Strother again fled, pursued by Connor, until the later fell dead. Strother escaped to the Cavness (Caviness) House, where he concealed himself in a privy and was there captured by Capt. Wm. H. Lancaster and J. W. Allison, Esq. . . . We did not know young Strother, but we have known Mr. Connor for years as one of the most peaceful, quiet citizens of Jackson and his untimely death is universally regretted. |
The jury called to decide on this shooting-death rendered a verdict that Wm. H. Connor came to his death by a pistol shot fired by Frank Strother, "but did not say whether or not it was justifiable."
SPAH LOT, NO. 70S
[Lot 70 in Tombstone Inscriptons]
(east)
F. SPAH
B/Nov. 9, 1812
D/Nov. 30, 1885
(west side)
MARY CATHARINE
wife of
F. SPAH
D/Feb. 5, 1880
Aged 48 Years
1880 Census, Msdison Co., page 62 (June 24):
Fidale Spah, 68, born in Germany, cemetery sexton (Riverside); widower.
Leonora Spah, 32, dau., born Tenn.; parents b. Germany.
THE FORKED DEER BLADE, Jackson, Dec. 5, 1885:
Died. Mr. F. Spah, Nov. 30 at his residence in Jackson.
J. D. BOND LOT, NO. 290
Individual slab tombstones:
JOHN D. BOND
1820-1894
An upright tombstone erected to the memory of John D. Bond before the slab stone vas placed over his grave, shows that he was born Oct. 27. 1620 and died March 9. 1894.
MARY CARTMELL
wife of
John D. Bond
1830-1915
In his family notes, Robert H. Cartmell wrote that his sister Mary Elizabeth Cartmell, wife of John D. Bond, was born Dec. 27, 1830 and died July 12, 1915.
R. H. Cartmell Diary, volume 12, page 29, March 9, 1894:
"Martin Bond called by since supper to let us know his father, John D. Bond, died this evening about 5 o'clock. . . . He came to Jackson to live in 1846; had a sister, Mrs. Sarah McLemore living in this county at that time . . . clerked for a number of year(s) in the dry goods store of G. N. Harris, married my sister Mary E. in '51; lived on a farm a number of yeas; has lived in Jackson 15 or 20 years. Mr. Bond was a member of the Campbellite or Christian Church." Bond had been an invalid for years. Had 4 children: Martin. Anna (Snider), Mary. Nellen (who md. Hugh Anderson and died abt. 1878, leaving a son. Bond). His bro., Sydney Bond, died at Poplar Corner in Madisoa Co., etc.
LITTLE HERVEY
son of
B. F. & Mattie BOND
Born Jan. ??, 1862
Died July ??, 1862
Benj. V. Bond and Martha Bond md. February 19, 1861. Bond was an insurance agent for years. Two large and still elegant monuments, near the Adamson lot in the 1870 addition to Riverside seem to be those of "Mattie, wife of B. F. Bond," dates dissolved. The other stones inscription has been completely dissolved.
Madison Co. Court Minute Bk. 16, page 376, notes that B. F. Bond died in 1861.
His widow lived at least to 1890.
SUTTON LOT, NO. 119
[Lot 119-A in Tombstone Inscriptions]
REV. S. P. SUTTON
B/Mar. 3, 1836
D/June 1, 1866
No pain, no grief. no anxious fear
Can reach the peaceful sleeper here.
(The second initial in his name is definitely "P." on this stone.)
The 1860 Census, Jackson, Tn., June 5, page 11, shows that R. P. Sutton was a carpenter; born in Indiana.
WAKEFIELD LOT, NO. 113
[Lot 113, east, in Tombstone Inscriptions]
Three upright slab tombstones:
JOHN WAKEFIELD
Born in England
Dec. 1819
Died in Jackson, Tenn.
May 1886
ANN
wife of
John WAKEFIELD
Born in Bolton Lemore England
Apr. 19, 1802
D/Feb. 7. 1876
Kind angels watch her sleeping dust, till Jesus comes to raise the just.
(Masonic Emblem)
Erected . . . In Memory (of) a friend,
JOHN A. WHITE
Born in England
May 1825
D/June 14, 1876
Madison Co. Court Minute Book 17, page 169:
John Wakefield died on the (blank) day of May 1686, intestate," without issue but left a widow, R. V. Wakefield.
THE JACKSON SUN, June 16, 1876:
Died. J. A. White, abt. 55, died June 14; "an engineer on the Miss. Cen. RR. He vas buried with masonic honors and leaves behind him in his adopted home. . . . An Englishman who had lived off and on in Jackson for a decade.
HAYES LOT, NO. 128
[Lot 128, north, in Tombstone Inscriptions]
(a large single monument)
REV. BENJAMIN A. HAYES
Apr. 23, 1818-Dec. 1, 1904
TENNESSEE NEWSOM
wife of
Rev. Benjamin A. HAYES
Sept. 7, 1828-May 25, 1911
Memphis Conference Minutes (Methodist), 1905, page 44:
The Rev. Benjamin Allison Hayes, born in East Tenn., April 2, 1810 and died in Jackson, Dec. 1, 1904; married Tennessee Newsom, Dec. 22, 1847 (three children). Admitted on trial to Memphis Conf. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the ministry in 1844; reported that in his numerous charges, he was true, faithful and efficient.
SOUTH SLOPE, NEAR KERSHAW TOMBSTONE
[Lot 379-B-2 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
A. J. SMITH
B/June 9, 1830
D/Jan. 14, 1878
(info inscribed on a lovely stone scroll)
TRIBUNE~SUN, Jackson, Jan. 25, 1878:
Died. A. J. Smith, Jan. 14, aged 40; son of Henry Smith of Denmark, Madison Co., had lived a while in Brazil in So. America; left a small family.
J. H. WILLIAMS LOT, NO. 36
JANE M.
wife of
J. H. WILLIAMS
D/Jan. 20, 1879
Aged 62 yrs. 9 months 17 days
TRIBUNE-SUN, Jackson, Jan. 23, 1879:
Mrs. Jane M. Williams died Jan. 20, 1879, aged 62. Relict of J. H. Williams, and she died at the home of her son-in-law, J. B. Conger.
IBID., Feb. 27, 1879:
"In Memory of Mrs. Jane M. Williams," a long poetic tribute to her, written by "Lela."
A large upright tombstone of the same size and design of Jane M. Williams, just to the north of hers, is likely that of her husband. John Henry Williams, who died May 26, 1870, according to the court record in which his widow, Jane M. Williams, was appt'd. admx. of his estate on Oct. 6, 1870. (Madison Co. Court Minute Bk. 11, page 529) The face of his tombstone has corroded completely'
NANCE LOT, NO. 125
Lucas (Luke) Nance came to Jackson from Tuscumbia, Ala., in the fall of 1874; drygoods merchant.
"To My Wife"
MOLLIE RIVERS
wife of
LUCAS NANCE
Born at Somerville, Tenn.
Oct. 2, 1844
Died January 4, 1882
The 1880 census-taker wrote marginally that Mrs. Mollie Nance and Mrs. Laura V. McClanahan kept a boarding house on College Street in Jackson.
WALKER LOT, NO. 87
[Marker below is describes as being on the north side of Lot 90 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
In Affectionate Remembrance of HENRY
youngest son of Mark & Elizabeth DANNATT,
of Caylon Lee Marsh
Lincolnshire England
B/Aug. 15, 1850
D/Sept. 30, 1875
Age 25 Yrs.
Behold. He taketh away any, who can hinder him, who will say unto him, what doest thou?
Madison Co. Court Minute Bk. 13, page 619. Henry Dannatt died Sept. 30, 1875, leaving a small estate.
GAMEWELL LOT, NO. 320
THOMAS W. GAMEWELL
Died Oct. 7, 1865
Aged 47 Years
THE WEST TENNESSEE WHIG, Jackson. Oct. 28, 1865:
Died. recently, Thomas W. Gamewell, in his 47th year. Born in S.C.; to Jackson when a young man.
NEAR THE GRAVE OF JOHN MAGRANE
[Listed in Lot 415-A in Tombstone Inscriptions]
W. B. MARSHALL
Died May 1863
Age 60 years
A tombstone now missing, for a long time, now, it seems, once located at the grave of W. B. Marshall, near the John Magrane tombstone, according to Ingram James in 1937.
In the 1860 census of Madison Co. W. B. MARSHALL of Jackson, was given as a native of Tenn., aged 40; total estate value of $65,000. (Page 7, June 4)
Marshall's LWT, proven in August 1865, would indicate that he was not married, perhaps a widower; left estate to various other relatives. Will Bk. A, page 5.
BRIGHT/BELL LOT, NO. 189
[Lots 188 and 189 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
DARLING JIMMIE
B/May 10, 1866
D/May 2, 1877
THE JACKSON SUN, May 4, 1877:
Died. In this city, Wednesday, May 2nd, James N., son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bright, of typho-malarial fever, aged 11 years.
HICKS-ROBERTSON LOT, NO. 281½
JOHN T. HICKS
B/Dec. 26, 1831
D/June 5, 1877
Aged 46 Yrs. 5 mos. 7 das.
THE JACKSON SUN, June 8. 1677:
"Tribute of Respect." Masonic Lodge 45, Jackson, for John T. Hicks, who departed this life June 5, 1877. Hicks was foreman of the WHIG and TRIBUNE in Jackson for a time.
COPELAND LOT, NO. 26
{Lot 26, south, in Tombstone Inscriptions]
THOS. COPELAND
B/in Scotland
D/in Jackson, Tenn.
Aug. 30, 1880
Aged 42 Years
His record is on high.
Thee, Oh. my husband, tis not thee
Beneath the coffin's lid I see.
Thou to a fairer land art gone.
There, may I hope when life is done
to see thee still.
J. S. Clark & Co. of Louisville, Ky. created this 'stone according to an inscription on the south side. Copeland's widow was Julia C. Copeland.
THE JACKSON SUN April 13, 1877:
YANCY LOT, NO. 288
(Masonic emblem):
F. W. YANCY
B/in Halifax County/
June 15, 1819
D/Sept. 13,. 1871
SUSAN R.
wife of
F. W. YANCY
Born Sept. 7, 1823
Died Dec. 30, 1899
JAMES G.
son of F. W. & S. R. YANCY
B/Apr. 20, 1854
D/Feb. 2, 1867
JOHN H. YANCY
B/Jan. 2?, 1847
D/Mar. 9, 1871
F(red) W. Yancey's tombstone does not tell us in which state Halifax Co. was located, but the following does:
WHIG-TRIBUNE, Jackson, Sept. 23, 1871.
Died. F. W. Yancy, Sept. 13, 1871. At his residence in this city, on, the evening of the 13th, Mr. F. W. Yancy, in the 52 year of his age. Mr. Yancy was born in Halifax Co., Va. and moved to Jackson in 1833. He married Jan. 18th 1844, Miss Susan Beveridge, daughter of Thomas Beveridge, Esq., one of the oldest citizens of this city. Mr. Yancy was elected County Trustee in 1861 and served the county in that capacity up to his death. In all the relations of life he was esteemed. . . . Three months prior to his death he professed religion and joined the Methodist Church. He leaves a wife and four children.
Madison Co. Court Min. Bk. 12, page 203, on which the minor heirs of F. W. Yancy, were, November 1871: Ann Elizabeth, age 20; Susan Amanda, age 13; Virginia Lee, age 7; Robert Jackson, age 4.
[HTML editor's note: There are discrepancies in spelling — Yancy vs. Yancey — between this Scrapbook and Tombstone Inscriptions.]
J. J. BROOKS, LOT NO. 114
On a long, horizontal tombstone is inscribed
LUCRETIA W.
wife of
Gen. J. J. BROOKS
B/June 11, 1824
D/Nov. 21, 1892
FATHER & MOTHER
GEN. J. J. BROOKS
B/Jan. 3, 1824
D/Sept. 15, 1875
Madison Co. Will BOOK A. page 203:
LWT of John J. Brooks, ". . . having entered into the service of my country with defensive war against my northern enemies and in view of its contingencies. . . ." June 5, 1861. Proven October 1875. Left estate to wife.
McREE LOT, NO. 25
An exquisitely sculpted tombstone, the pinnacle of which is a stone lady much the worse for wear.
(south side)
JAMES M. McREE
Born in N. Carolina
Mar. 26, 1814
Died Sept. 21. 1891
Earth has no sorrows that Heaven cannot heal.
(west side)
OLIVIA T.
wife of
James M. McREE
Born in Virginia
Feb. 5, 1828
Died June ?2, 188?
Madison Co. Court Min. Bk. 16, page 233. In court, Dec. 4, 1881, "Mrs. O. T. McRee departed this life at her home in Madison County on the 12th day of June 1881, intestate; left husb., James M. McRee and children: Martha Green, Gertrude Parker, Buenevista Chaney, W. H. McGee. Russell S. McRee, Jas. S. McRee.
BRIGHT/BELL LOT, NO. 189
[Lots 188 and 189 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
A beautifully sculpted tombstone:
"TO MY HUSBAND"
DANIEL WARREN GETTY
B/Aug. 12. 1837
D/Aug. 23, 1878
TRIBUNE-SUN, Jackson, August 30, 1870:
Died. At the Bright House in this city on Friday last, Capt. Dan Getty, a gallant and kind hearted gentleman and a conductor on the Chicago St. Louis & New Orleans R.R. Deceased had been a resident of the South for ten or more years, coming here from New York State. . . . Quiet and kind, yet he was a devotee to duty and died a martyr to it. Farewell, brave and noble man; the world would have been better had more men like him lived in it.
GALBAUGH GRAVE, BACK (EAST) OF SOUTH SLOPE
[Lot 376-A in Tombstone Inscriptions]
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This rough drawing of the tombstone of JOHN C. GALBAUGH gives the readable inscription. Ingram James read the last number in the birth year as one but a flour-soil mixture, enhanced with enlarged photography, shows that it was a "7." Also, the day of death was "12" not 2 of Nov. I accept his reading of 1881 as the death year as I cannot now read the last digit of this date. |
COLLINS LOT, NO. 168
JAMES A. COLLINS
B/Sep. 3, 1830
D/Mar. 19, 1876
SARAH BIVENS
Beloved wife of
James D. COLLINS
Nov. 12, 1845-Aug. 1, 1920
THE JACKSON SUN, March 24. 1876:
Died. At his residence in this city, on Sunday last, of pneumonia. Mr. J. A. Collins, aged 46 years. Deceased was born in Henderson county but was a citizen of this city from boyhood. He was a Methodist, member of the I.O.O.F., a Mason, a merchant. Left widow and five children.
HUTCHERSON LOT, NO. 237
One small shaft tombstone:
WILLIAM C. HUTCHERSON
B/Nov. 6, 1805
D/Nov. 21, 1875
ELIZABETH P. HUTCHERSON
B/Sept. 20, 1814
D/May 26, 1895
The various Madison Co. censuses reveal W. C. Hutcherson as a prosperous farmer.
THE JACKSON SUN, Nov. 26, 1875
Died. William C. Hutcherson, Nov. 21; born 1805 in Va.; moved to Madison Co., 1820; married May 1830, Elizabeth May. Large family.
Madison Co. Will Bk. A, page 210. LWT of Wm. C. Hutcherson, proven Dec. 1875; mentions the place he lived on called the "Adam Huntsman place;" his wife, children, including Nancy V. Herron.
IBID., Madison Co. Court Min. Bk. 14, page 16, Jan. 10, 1876.
Elizabeth P. Hutcherson was appointed grdn. of her grandchildren: John, Emma Dick, Anne Edwards, Maggie and Levi, children of dec'd. Dr. Levi B. Herron.
The granddaughter, Anne Edwards Herron, married John Lafayette Pearson of Jackson. They were the parents of the Hon. Herron Carney Pearson, U.S. Representative in Congress; long an attorney of Jackson. Several of the Pearsons are buried on this Hutcherson lot.
AT THE NEFF-KEITH LOT, NO. 123
[Listed under Lot 124 in Tombstone Inscriptions]
REV. B. M. FARIS
B/Aug. 14, 1840
D/Sept. 9, 1888
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Dear Jonathan You asked about Rev. B. M. Faris. He was a Presbyterian preacher. He was pastor of Somerville Presby. Chrurch from 1883-1886. He left Somerville, having accepted a call to a church in South Frankfort, Ky. Remembrance of Rev. B. M. Faris by Rev. S. Caldwell is an article written for the Christian Observer, said that he met Rev. Faris in 1876 in the Presby. Church in Denmark, Tn. (Source: Feb. 6, 1889 clipping in the Oatley Scrapbooks microfilm, Somerville Library — clippings from the Somerville papers. Another clipping said that Mrs. B. W. Faris, her daughter, Miss Edith and two sons left for Jackson, TN to spend a few days with Mrs. Faris' mother before Mr. Faris joined them for their new home in Kentucky . (1887 Oatlet Scrapbook clipping) |
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HOGSETT LOT, NO. 419B
[Lots 419-B and 420-B in Tombstone Inscriptions]
ONE TOMBSTONE, evidently replacing several older stones:
HOGSETT
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Chas. Todd Sr. |
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Robert H. Cartmell, Diary, volume 10, April 10, 1892:
Rode over to Chas. Hogsetts to see old Aunt Jane. She has been feeble of late, having a bad cough, but is better now. She is or soon will be 92, born 1800 in Franklin Co. Ky., came with her father and mother to Tenn. in 1827. They settled in Lauderdale Co. near Ripley (and) there they died. Old Aunt Jane married a Mr. Lemon & lived a no. of years in Gibson Co. At his death about 1858 or 9 she has since made her home with her brother, Chas. Hogsett.
Later, August 28, 1892, the diarist makes similar statements about Jane Lemon, noting as well that her father was a Revolutionary War soldier; her mother was a sister of Gen'l. Wm. Arnold, whose father, John Arnold was also a Revolutionary soldier.
IBID., volume 11, page 90, Aug. 20. 1893:
Old Aunt Jane died this morning about 9 o'clock. . . . it seems strange that she, the oldest of 8 or 9 children should be the last except one, the youngest . . . Charles is the youngest.
IBID., volume 17, page 10, Feb. 8, 1899:
Charles T. Hogsett died this morning . . . born in Franklin Co., Ky. 25 Dec. 1816. . . . His parents moved to Lauderdale Co. about 1830. . . . An uncle living in Madison Co. brought 2 of (the) boys Charles & Harrison with him. Chas. lived with Martin Cartmell until he was 28 yrs. & married Jennie C. Sharp, 1846. She died 1859. 3 sons & a daughter.
KING-UMPHLETT LOT, NO. 289
[Lot 289½ in Tombstone Inscriptions]
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Hamner King |
A tall, pink granite obelisk: (west side) (east side) (south side) |
D. Hamner King (1835-1891) was mayor of Jackson, 1873, 1875-1876. The 1870 and 1880 censuses list him as a "saloon keeper."
Madison Co. Court Min. Bk. 18, page 591, November 3, 1891. D. H. King "departed this life at home in Madison County, Tennessee, on the 14th day of Oct. 1891," intestate, leaving a widow, Mrs. S. C. King and sons, John D. King and Chas. H. King. W. T. Rogers was appointed adms. of King's estate.
From what I have read and much that I would infer, about his career, I should say that his was an example of a man pulling himself up by his bootstraps, having overcome some very tiresome difficulties. Under his name and dates on the obelisk is this epitaph, "If every one for whom he did an act of kindness would bring a single bloom to his grave, he would sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers."
GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF TENNESSEE (Madison Co. Edition), 1887, page 880:
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Col. D. H. King, a prominent business man and citizen of Jackson, Tenn., is a native of Williamson County, Tenn., born February 14, 1835, son of George P. and Lucinda T. (Gooch) King, both natives of Tennessee. Subject was reared and educated in his native county; left there in 1849; followed farming three years in Carroll; came to Madison County in 1852. In 1855 came to Jackson; followed clerking one year; engaged in the retail liquor business in 1856, and continued successfully until the war. He enlisted in Forrest's cavalry in 1864, and served until the close of the war; was previous to this, however, in the quartermaster's department, being at the battle of Shiloh and other engagements of note. After the war Mr. King resumed the liquor business, in which he has been interested ever since, conducting at present a strictly first-class house in all its appointments (one of the finest in the State). He has also conducted a paying feed and commission business since 1883, and has as fine a stud of horses in his stables as can be found in West Tennessee. Col. King has taken an active interest in all public and private enterprises in the city and county. He owns a large flouring mill and cotton-gin at Spring Creek and two good plantations in the county. On the 8th of September, 1858, he was married to Miss Sarah C. Wilson, of this county; by her he has three children, two now living: John D. (partner in the liquor business with the Colonel) and Charles H. The Colonel is an unswerving Democrat in politics, representing this county in the Legislature in 1869-71; was mayor of Jackson in 1872-76, and for many years a member of the city council. He is a member of the Encampment of I.O.O. F. He was a member of the Madison County Agricultural and Mechanical Association fourteen years, and is justly regarded as one among the enterprising and eminently successful business men and citizens of Jackson. He built King's Opera House in 1874 at an expense of $44,000, one of the finest in the South, and conducted it successfully until it burned down, March, 1883, at a loss of $22,000. |
A SPECIAL ENTRY. JAMES LOT, NO. 270A
W. Ingram James (1896-1975) was employed by the W.P.A. in early 1937 to copy the tombstone inscriptions in several Madison Co. cemeteries, including Riverside. We who have an interest in Riverside, its history and the people buried in it would need salute James!
T. C. REAVIS LOT, NO. 240
Ingram James copied this tombstone inscription, in 1937, as: My Father, Thos G. (C.) Reavis, born August 15, 1802 and died August 15, 1858. This 'stone, near that of Samuel E. Reavis, is now gone and probably that of his wife, Alice. Perhaps the fourth/fifth grave south of Samuel E. Reavis' stone, which is in fine condition, is marked with a small tombstone, the only part being readable: MARY ANN, wife of D. C. NEAL. The Madison Co. marriage records show that Mary Ann Reavis married Dempsey C. Neal, November 13, 1856.
From Goodspeed's HISTORY OF TENNESSEE (Madison Co. Edition), 1887, page 897:
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Jas. M. Reavis, Sr., member of J. M. Reavis & Son, tin, stove, glass and queensware merchants, was born July 31, 1834, in Rutherford Co., N.C., and is of a family of four sons and two daughters, born to Thos. C. and Alice (Laws) Reavis, natives of Granville and Orange Counties, N.C., father and mother respectively. They were married in Orange County, and followed farming until they moved to this county in 1834; then followed shoe-making a few years, after which he began the practice of dentistry about 1840, continuing the same in Jackson until his death in 1858, the mother following in 1871. He was city marshal of Jackson a number of years prior to his death. Our subject remained at home till 1856, when he went to New Orleans and there completed the tinner's trade, returning in 1860. He followed his trade until the beginning of hostilities between the North and South. He then enlisted, and was assigned to the engineer corps, under Forrest, remained in service until the close of the war, and in May, 1866, embarked in his present line in Jackson. In February, 1862 he married Margaret A. Brown, a native of Kentucky, to whom three sons and one daughter have been born: Frank, Alice, Hartwell and James L. Hartwell is deceased. Mr. Reavis is a member of the I.O.O.F., and his wife of the First Methodist Church. |
His tombstone reveals that James N. Reavis died September 15, 1889.
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