Jenkins Cemetery
The Jenkins Cemetery is located three and one-half miles north of Williams Store in Difficult on Difficult
Road towards Russell Hill. It is located approx 150 yards from highway on hill under large tree near power
line crossing. The periwinkle ground cover is mixed with a heavy growth of blackberry vines.
36-24-67N 85-52-46W
Lawson, Sherman 20 Sept 1882 - 16 Sept 1909
Jenkins, --?-- 10 May 1852 - No Death Date
Jenkins, --?-- 9 Oct 1850 - 22 Apr 1932
Jenkins, Norman W. 9 July 1881 -13 Sept 1917
Kennedy, Nannie 15 Oct 1895 - 5 Oct 1922
W/O John Kennedy
Emberton, Bertha Vay 10 Feb 1913 -1 Sept 1915
Kennedy, W.C. (William Carroll) 30 Dec 1831 - 23 Feb 1904
Kennedy, Elizabeth D. Donoho 18 Apr 1828 - 30 Aug 1880
Kennedy, Lester 23 Aug 1879 - 2 July 1880 S/O J.D. & M.A.
Kennedy, Stanton 1 June 1885- 16 Sept 1892 S/O J.D. & M. A.
Canter, Mary J. 22 Jan 1849 - 26 Aug 1909
Canter, William L. 15 Oct 1866 - 1945?
Canter, Minnie W. 24 Aug 1868 - 1931
Several fieldstones.
Copied by Retta Waggoner Oct. 30, 2002
Note: William Carroll Kennedy and Elizabeth Donoho Kennedy are Retta's gggrandparents.
Listed in Smith County Tennessee Cemeteries - North of the Cumberland River page 194.
See History of Smith County Tennessee pg. 429 for history of the Canter family
buried here and page 559 for the Kennedy family.
