MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE
INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK PART III
By Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1992

GRIFFIN FUNERAL HOME BURIAL LEDGER

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A listing of RIVERSIDE CEMETERY burials that are not marked as far as ascertainable with tombstones; as taken from the Griffin Funeral Home Burial Ledger, 1889-1911, by Mrs. Helen Oxley Johnson, with her permission, extended to Jonathan Smith, August 3, 1992. Information given: decedent, death date, age, cause of death and name of person handling decedent's Funeral arrangements:

DR. PENN
January 27, 1890, 87 years, general debility, H. L. Penn

JOHN LEONARD
Feb. 17, 1890, 16 years, meningitis, Dr. J. W. Leonard

MRS. MARY EMMONS
March 18, 1890, 63 years, general debility, none cited

T. H. PAYNE, JR.
March 21, 1890, 23 years, consumption, Thos. H. Payne

MISS MINNIE ANDERSON
April 21, 1890, 22 years, childbirth, W. T. Anderson

W. H. BRIGGS
April 22, 1890, 56 years, apoplexy, Brigs Estate

WILLIAM McLAUGHLIN
May 3, 1890, 49 years, consumption, McLaughlin Estate

MRS. JESSIE LANGFORD
May 13, 1890, 54 years, consumption, Jessie Langford

BRUCE LONG
May 31, 1890, 2 years, malarial fever, T. C. Long

JESSIE LANGFORD
May 28, 1890, 64 years, disease of heart and throat, Estate

INFANT FEMALE
September 20, 1893, b. 1893, cholera Infirms., W. R. Moore

W. H. POLK
October 3, 1893, 27 years, bilious fever, Mrs. DeCosey

HAL C. THOMPSON
October 11, 1893, consumption, H. C. Thompson, 37 years old

JAMES W. TURNEY
October 16, 1893, killed while coupling railroad cars, Thomas Quinn

W. H. NEWELL
October 24, 1893, 78 years, Travis Newell

MRS. ELIZA MASON
died Media, Pa., October 1893, 66 yrs, 9 mos, Clifton Dancy

JOHN McCORRY KING
December 3, 1893, infant, pneumonia, J. D. King

MRS. GREGORY
December 28, 1893, 34 years, childbirth, F. P. McCullum

JOE FOGG
Jan. 28, 1894, 8 years, rheumatism, J. H. Fogg

MISS NEWMAN
May 14, 1894, 30 years, invalid, T. D. Newman

INFANT MALE OF HOMER ROBINSON
April 10, 1894, 2 years, 6 months, burned to death. Ham Robinson

MISS LIZZIE BROWN
May 8, 1894, 23 years, consumption, Milton Brown

INFANT OF J. J. GRIMES, JR.
May 23, 1894, 2 years, J. J. Grimes

MALE
July 1, 1894, 2 years, fever, J. M. Thornberg

INFANT MALE OF J. M. CLARK
July 2, 1894, 9 months, J. M. Clark

INFANT MALE OF A. P. MOORE
July 1894, 2 years, A. P. Moore

INFANT MALE OF LUTHER PARHAM
July 1894, Luther Parham

MRS. BAKER
August 5, 1894, 50 years, stomach tumor, Charles Jones

S. H. McALEXANDER
August 8, 1894, 68 years, suppression of urine, Estate

MRS. J. R. EXUM
August 1, 1894, 22 years, typhoid fever, J. R. Exum

INFANT DAUGHTER OF ED MOFFITT
Born September 12, 1894 and died Sept. 20, 1894, Ed Moffitt

JOHN C. ROBINSON
November 4, 1894, 60 years, kidney disease, F. E. Bond

MRS. SUTTON
November 22, 1894, 23 years, born Gibson Co., Tenn., Morgan Sutton

BURTON W. DUNLAP
November 24, 1894, 3 years, fever, W. N. Dunlap

KATIE MAY ESTES
November 25, 1894, 17 years, consumption, J. C. Estes

DUNLAP MALE
December 9, 1894, 1 year, 6 months, William Dunlap

CHARLES HENRY HOWARD
January 11, 1900, 29 years, pneumonia, W. P. Howard

W. W. POLK
June 27, 1900, J. D. Newton

A. B. WHITE
January 19, 1900, 55 years, cancer of stomach, John Hight

MARY IOME DRENNANEN McADAMS
January 19, 1906, 22 months, J. E. McAdams
MRS. HEBERNIA NEILL
June 14, 1909, 62 years, general breakdown

J. W. YARBROUGH
February 2, 1910, 68 years, Estate

DAUGHTER OF S. P. ANDERSON
April 1910, S. P. Anderson

MRS. COLLINS
April 27, 1910, MRS. W. T. Blackard.

Mr. E. BRAY
August 16, 1910, cancer of stomach, Mrs. E. Bray

M. A. BROWN
September 28, 1910, gunshot-homicide Shot near Medon, Tenn., Sept. 17, 1910.

MRS. MAXIE
July 9, 1910, 71 years, W. L. Parish

Mrs. P. A. ROOKS
October 10, 1910

MORGAN ANDERSON
November 28, 1910, 21 years, railroad accident, J. R. Wright

 

OTHER GRIFFIN FUNERAL HOME BURIALS, IN RIVERSIDE, BUT GRAVES ARE MARKED:

MAMIE FARISS
March 8, 1890, 11 years, congestion of brain, W. H. Fariss.

MRS. MAMIE BOND
March 28, 1890, 22 years, congestion of brain, E. V. Bond

MRS. L. A. THEUS
September 13, 1893, born 1834, cancer of leg, Frank Campbell

MISS LOUISE SPRATT
November 14, 1893, born Mississippi, J. N. Seales

TEDDY JAMES
March 2, 1894, born Tenn., Ted James

MARIE LOU HOFFMAN
April 25, 1894, 19 years, childbed fever, C. P. Hoffman
(She is in the J. M. Cartmell lot, with stone and dates: Dec. 12, 1872-April 25, 1894)

MRS. R. R. DASHIELDS
June 23, 1894, rheumatism, Dr. R. R. Dashields (Eliza Jane, wife of R. R. Dashiel)

MISS GARRISON
July 4, 1894, 60, E. S. Malory
(one of three spinsters of this name)

MRS. PEGUES
July 20, 1894, Will Gates

JACK POLK
August 25, 1894, 19 years, typhoid fever, Thomas Polk
(stone actually states: J. J. Polk, son of Chas. & Willie Polk, died Aug. 25, 1894, aged 19 years and 4 months)

HOWEL A. HUNT
November 21, 1894, 23 years, kidney trouble (whiskey) Mrs. O. T. Jackson
(His tombstone has dates: Feb. 16, 1872-Nov. 20, 1894)

SARAH GREER
March 16, 1900, 64 years, pneumonia, John A. Greer (name incorrectly listed -LOUISA Greer, wife of John A. Greer; prominent couple of Jackson)

MRS. NAGLE
Feb. 7, 1910, 66 years, pneumonia, Mrs. Thomas Nagle

WILL EDWARD PEARSON
born Oct. 3, 1896, died August 31, 1910, John L. Pearson

 

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