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Thomas Prowell and Mary Hammock Baines Ligon
The information regarding the burials in the Thomas Prowell Ligon Cemetery were provided to
my father, Ernest Clark, by Lassye Stallings Pendleton. I have added information regarding
their full names, their birth dates - death dates and who they were related to.
There are many more interned here than was provided by the headstones.

The Thomas Prowell Ligon Cemetery can be viewed on the cemetery pages:

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Thomas Prowell Ligon is buried between his two wives in this, his family cemetery.

Burials

Thomas Prowell Ligon - son of William Watt Ligon and Martha Jane Prowell Ligon
b. Oct. 23, 1820 Smith Co., TN m. Drucilla J. Sampson Ligon Nov. 11, 1841, Smith Co.,TN
d. Feb. 11,1900 Smith Co., TN

Drucilla J. Sampson Ligon -  (Thomas Prowell Ligon's first wife)
daughter of Stephen J. Sampson and Sarah Lurana Sims Sampson,
b. June 24, 1815, Smith Co., TN
d. Sept. 28, 1858 Smith Co., TN

Mary Hammock Baines Ligon -  (Thomas Prowell Ligon's second wife)
daughter of Sam Baines and Christiana Lassiter Baines
b. Mar. 29, 1826 Smith Co., TN  m. Jan.16,1861, Smith Co., TN,
d. July 27, 1909, Smith Co., TN

William T. Tyree - first husband of Mary Matilda Ligon,
daughter of Thomas Prowell Ligon and son of David Andrew Tyree Sr.
& Catherine  Patience Stallings. Tyree.
b. Aug. 13, 1844  Smith Co., TN
d. Nov. 24, 1894 Smith Co., TN

Mary Matilda  Ligon Tyree Manning - daughter of
Thoms Prowell Ligon and Drucilla J. Sampson Ligon
b. May 3, 1850 Smith Co., TN
d. Jan. 19, 1932 Smith Co., TN

Willie Tyree - son of Mary Matilda Ligon Tyree and William T. Tyree
b. abt. 1878 Smith Co., TN
d. abt. 1888 Smith Co., TN

Drucilla J. Ligon Douglas - first wife of Harrison Lee Douglas and
daughter of Thomas Prowell Ligon and his first wife Drucilla J. Sampson Ligon
b. April 14, 1852 Smith Co., TN
d. Oct. 25, 1876 Smith Co., TN

George Samuel Ligon - son of Thomas Prowell Ligon
and his second wife, Mary Hammock Baines Ligon
b. Oct. 23, 1867 Smith Co., TN
d. April 5, 1931 Smith Co., TN

Malinda Malvina Ligon - first wife of George Samuel Ligon
b. June 8 , 1878 Smith Co., TN
d. May 14, 1912 Smith Co., TN

Melissa Edna Smartt Ligon - third wife of George Samuel Ligon
b. January 22, 1877
d. July 11, 1945 Smith Co., TN

Alfred Baines Ligon - son of Thomas Prowell Ligon
and his second wife, Mary Hammock Baines
b. May 18, 1862 Smith Co., TN
d. Nov. 16, 1924 Smith Co., TN

Sallie Ligon - Sarah Elmira Tyree Ligon wife of Alfred Baines Ligon
b. abt. 1855
d. April 26, 1918 Smith Co., TN

Minnie Bell Ligon - daughter of Alfred Baines Ligon and Sarah Elmira Tyree Ligon
b. Sept. 10, 1886 Smith Co., TN
d. Feb. 7, 1893 Smith Co., TN

Lillie Vina Ligon Thackston - daughter of Alfred Baines Ligon
and wife of William B. Thackston
b. Sept. 20, 1898 Smith Co., TN
d. Feb. 29, 1920 Smith Co., TN

Estil Thackston - son of Lillie Ligon Thackston and William B. Thackston

William Richard Stallings - husband of Ella Ligon Stallings, daughter
of Thomas Prowell Ligon and his second wife, Mary Hammock Baines Ligon
b. Nov. 22, 1860 Smith Co., TN
d. June 27, 1939 Smith Co., TN

Ella Elizabeth Ligon Stallings - daughter of Thomas Prowell Ligon and
his second wife, Mary Hammock Baines Ligon
b. Sept. 1, 1865 Smith Co., TN
d. July 4, 1941 Smith Co., TN


Charles John Stallings - husband of Ella Elizabeth Ligon Stallings and
son of Hezekiah Hale Stallings and Elizabeth Ann Carter Stallings
b. Nov. 22, 1860 Smith Co., TN
d. July 7, 1939 Smith Co., TN


Joe Phillips Pendleton - husband of Lassye Stallings Pendleton
b. Aug. 7, 1884 Smith Co., TN
d. April 18, 1953 Smith Co., TN

Lassye Christiana Stallings Pendleton - daughter of
Ella Elizabeth Ligon Stallings and William Richard Stallings
b. Oct. 7, 1889 Smith Co., TN
d. Feb. 5, 1958 TN

William Butler Ligon - son of Thomas Prowell Ligon
and Mary Hammock Baines Ligon
b. April 18, 1870 Smith Co., TN
d. Sept. 4, 1894 Smith Co., TN

Infant child of Lottie Elmira Ligon Petty - and William Petty,
Lottie Elmira Ligon Petty, daughter of Alfred Baines Ligon and
Sarah Elmira Tyree Petty

Marquis de Lafayette Ligon - brother of Thomas Prowell Ligon
b. April 22, 1817 Smith Co., TN
d. bet. 1870-1876 Smith Co., TN

Martha Jane Prowell Ligon - mother of Thomas Prowell Ligon
and daughter of Thomas Prowell and Sarah Roper Prowell
b. Feb. 15, 1796 NC
d. Feb. 15, 1865 Smith Co., TN

James B. Ligon - small son of James Anderson Ligon,
brother of Thomas Prowell Ligon
b. April 7, 1855 Smith Co., TN
d. Oct. 16, 1859 Smith Co., TN

Male Ligon - child was a nephew of Thomas Prowell Ligon

Alice Ligon - Infant daughter of George Samuel Ligon and
Malinda Malvina Ballenger Ligon
b. 1899 Smith Co., TN
d. 1899 Smith Co., TN

Benton Ligon - Infant son of George Samuel Ligon
and Malinda Malvina Ballenger Ligon
b. 1911 Smith Co., TN
d. bef. May 14, 1912 Smith Co., TN

Thomas Hezekiah Stallings - son of Ella Elizabetgh Ligon Stallings
and William Richard Stallings
b. June 22, 1892 Smith Co., TN
d. Jan. 28, 1919 Commercy, France

Polly McIntyre - d. Nov 1873 age about 72
motherinlaw of James Anderson Ligon, brother of Thomas Prowell Ligon

At the turn of the last censutry, the Thomas Prowell Ligon Cemetery was
bounded on two sides by roads, the Carthage-New Middleton and Hogan's
Creek Road and on the other side by lands of Cleveland Hubbard.

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