MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE
INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK PART IV
by Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1993

NOTES BY LOT

(Page 9)

 

UMPHLETT, COLLINS, Lot 289

In an article, "Miscellaneous Personal Notes on Madison Co. Pioneers" by Marie Collins Johnson, 1946, it is stated that Henry D. Collins married Matilda Anderson; lived in the Cotton Grove area. That the graves of Henry D., his wife and his father, Peter Collins, and three children are in the family graveyard. That he had children: Anderson Collins, William Collins, James Anderson Collins, Mary B. Collins, Miriam Collins, who married Job Umphlett. Tennessee Collins, the first wife of Wyatt A. Taylor. Virginia Collins. Sam Collins; Jared Collins and Gabriel Collins. Whatever may have been the disposition of HENRY D. COLLINS' remains, the Henry D. Collins, father of Miriam Collins Umphlett, has a tall, rounded-top rectangular tombstone in the Umphlett-Collins lot in Riverside. Beneath a Masonic emblem, the name Henry D. Collins is followed with birth (October _4, 1799) and death (Jan. 24, 1866) dates. The little verse beneath the vital stats is unreadable!

 

McCLANAHAN LOT, South of Eighth Street

When doing research on the McClanahan family for Dr. Barbara G. Ellis who was writing the history of THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, which involved John R. McClanahan as a key factor in the newspaper's Civil War period, I read as best I could the slab tombstone of Nelson McClanahan, a younger brother of John R. McClanahan. Better cleaning of the stone then provided a correction of the inscription as I had been able to report it in my Riverside scrapbook, no. one, page 32. The inscription reads:

In/Memory of
NELSON McCLANAHAN
B/in Lawrence /Laurens/ District, S.C.
May 15, 1821
D/in Jackson, Tenn. /May 6, 1851

This young man had served in the Mexican War.

 

IFFLAND/EOFLAND, West 1/2, Lot 181

Several persons of this name, however it is correctly spelled, lie buried in Riverside. The head of the family, EDWARD IFFLAND, appears in the 1900 census, Jackson, born Feb. 1836 in Ga.

 

CHESTER AND OTHERS, Lot 348B

Rhoda Love McLean

A small, upright stone, heretofore unmentioned in any of the tombstone inscription publications for this cemetery. It is a very old 'stone and somewhat difficult "to read":

RHODA LOVE
Daughter of
C. D. & L. E.
McLEAN
Born March 20,
1837; died Sept.
13, 1838

Charles D. McLean was publisher of the newspaper, the JACKSON GAZETTE, 1824-1830. The issue in which little Rhoda's death notice/obituary would have appeared has not been preserved. Mentioned in the GAZETTE's issue, July 12, 1828. Died, July 6, SARAH McLEAN, widow of Dr. Lachlan McLean and mother of C. D. McLean, Aged 68 years, 8 mos., and 6 days. Ditto, April 18, 1829. Died, April 14, Miss Mary Ann McLean, sister of C. D. McLean. (There is the stub of a very old tombstone beside that of Rhoda's, which may very well have marked the grave of one of these two ladies. Both are undoubtedly in this same "lot" in Riverside, buried beside their granddaughter and niece.)

CHARLES D. McLEAN (1795-1881), a native of Albemarle County, Virginia, was a son of Dr. Lachlan McLean, a Scotsman, and Sarah (Cabourelle) McLean. A journalist, C. D. McLean lived for a time in Clarksville, Tennessee, and published the RECORDER, Clarksville, 1815-1820; affiliated with the Nashville WHIG, 1820-1823 and published the JACKSON GAZETTE, 1824-1830; served in the House of Representatives, Tennessee, 1831-1833. Moved to Shelby Co., Tennessee and died there. See, BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, volume 2, 1861-1901 (Nashville, 1979), pages 1043-1044.

 

CAVINESS AND OTHERS, Lot 124

In scrapbook three, page 30, I recorded the inscription from John T. Caviness' tombstone, which only stated that he had died in Feb. 1885, aged about 76 years. The notice of his death, in the WEST TENNESSEE WHIG, Jackson, January 19, 1885, reported that he died January 12, 1885; that he was born in Chatham County, N.C. 1809; moved to Tennessee in 1833. Lived in Henderson Co., Tenn. for years and while there served as a member of the county court (J.P.); served 5 years as alderman in Jackson. Member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Left wife and seven children. Buried in Riverside Cemetery.

 

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