MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
SCRAPBOOK PART VI
by Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1995

NOTES BY LOT

(Page 21)

LOT 280, McCUTCHEN

H. C. McCUTCHEN
1818-1875

MARY E. McCUTCHEN
1829-1872

According to Madison Co. Court Minute Book 13, page 454, on Feb. 3, 1875 the court approved W. T. McCutchen as administrator of the estate of H. C. McCutchen "who departed this life about the 27th day of January 1875." This was Henry Collins McCutchen, most often called by his second given name. As of April 5, 1870 he made his bond and took office as County Register of Deeds, having been elected to that office. (IBID., Minute Book 11, page 380) He was re-elected and took office the first Monday in Sept. 1874. (IBID., Minute Book 12, page 306). He died serving in this office. The death certificate of Miss Fannie McCutchen, born 1853, died 1935, shows that she was the daughter of Collins McCutchen and Mary Edwards McCutchen.

 

(Page 25)

LOT 122½, JARMAN

south to north:

MATTIE F., daughter of
G. W. & P. C. JARMAN
Died Aug. 9, 1882
Aged 22 yrs.

WILLIE STREET JARMAN
Jan. 16, 1878-Feb. 7, 1885

1880 U.S. Census, Madison Co., Jackson, Tenn., Enumerator's Dist. 101, page 1. June 1st.
Geo. W. Jarman, age 54, born Alabama; parents born in N.C. Pres. of Univ.
Pattie C. Jarman, age 45, born Tenn.; parents born in Tenn. Wife
Noble Jarman, dau., age 21, born Tenn.
Maggie F. Jarman, dau., age 19, born Tenn.
Geo. W. Jarman, son, age 17, born Tenn.
Jennie C. Jarman, dau., age 15, born Ala.
John F. Jarman, son, age 12, born Tenn.
Winnie S. Jarman, dau., age 4, born Tenn.

A HISTORY OF UNION UNIVERSITY, by Richard H. Ward (1975), page 35:
George W. Jarman, native of Lawrence Co., Ala., graduate of LaGrange College in Alabama, elected principal of new preparatory academy of newly-established Southwestern Baptist University in Jackson, August 25, 1874 and served as such into 1875. Thereafter Professor of Ancient Languages at this university; chairman of the faculty, 1876-1890, in the latter of which year he resigned (also pages 39, 50).

 

LOT 137-E, HILLMAN-MOORE

north to south:

Double tombstone:
W. A. HILLMAN
1849-1901
DELLA SMITH, his wife,
1851-1925

Wm. AUGUSTA HILLMAN
Apr. 21-Apr. 30, 1925

LOUISE ELIZABETH MOORE
1898-1962

KATIE HILLMAN MOORE
1875-1963

ASBURY PATRICK MOORE
1863-1937

THE JACKSON SUN, Jan. 3, 1937:
Rev. Asbury Patrick Moore, aged 73, died Jan. 1, 1937. A Baptist minister; native of Warren County, Tennessee. Married Kate Hillman. Buried Riverside Cemetery.

 

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