TANNER CEMETERY

Tanner Cemetery, February 2001

 

            Tanner Cemetery is a large, very old community cemetery near the mouth of Lick Creek in Perry County, Tennessee. There are many fieldstones and sunken spots. The cemetery may contain as many as 200 burials. This record was made February 17, 2001.

            Mary (Stewart) Bowen and Melissa (Snyder) Bowen recorded the cemetery in the early 1990s. Their record appears in Mary Bowen's Perry County, Tennessee Cemetery Records (Vol. I). This earlier record is referred to as Bowen in the notes below.

 

Bates, Nancy E., Oct. 16, 1846-Nov. 4, 1881, "Wife of S. T. Bates"

Churchwell, Velma M., Apr. 17, 1922-Aug. 3, 1942 [replacement]

Horner, Nathanal, Dec. 21, 1910-Jan. 5, 1911, "Son of J. R. & S. L. Horner"

Horner, Oles B., Sept. 9, 1901-June 14, 1903, "Son of J. R. & S. L. Horner" (broken)

Lomax, Elizabeth, Nov. 28, 1835-Oct. 1878 (homemade)

Lomax, Sarah R., Jan. 12, 1847-Nov. 26, 1916, "Wife of John Lomax"

McDonald, Archie Lee, d. Feb. 16, 1945, "Age 73-13 days" [not found in 2001; reported by Bowen to be an undertaker's marker]

McDonald, Charlie D., Mar. 30, 1908-Nov. 22, 1909, "Son of A. L. and M. A. McDonald"

McDonald, Mary Ann, "Mrs." [not found in 2001; reported by Bowen to be an undertaker's marker]

Smith, Ira, June 5, __97-Jan. 7, __57 (homemade)

Smith, Malisa, 1875-Sept. 19, 1911 (homemade)

Smith, W. T., Feb. 16, 1865-Oct. 7, 1940 (homemade)

Tanner, ______, d. May 22, 1906, "Age 52 years" "Wife of E. E. Tanner" [cannot find a first name, nor could Bowen]

Tanner, Eligah E., Nov. 1839-Aug. 1913, military marker "Pvt Co A 10 Regt Tenn Cav Confederate States Army"

Wilson, J. R., July 9, 1856-June 11, 1940

 

Return to Perry County, Tennessee Cemetery Records