Pettit Cemetery

Pettit Cemetery is located in Land Between the Lakes on Pettit Cemetery Road (across from Fire Tower Road), about 2 miles South of Model on The Trace (Hwy. 49).

Photos shared by Deanna W., who took these while visiting the cemetery with her granddaughters:


David Sills, Sept. 12, 1820 - May 31, 1893
Fereby Belisle Sills, Dec. 12, 1817 - May 2, 1900


Francis Wallace, December 26, 1861 - Nov. 19, 1929


Hattie H., wife of M. T. Wallace, Born Aug. 9, 1888, Died Aug. 24, 1904

The Pettit Cemetery was also a relocation cemetery for graves from the Shemwell and Nolin cemeteries, moved before Lake Barkley was formed.


Captain Philip B. Nolin, 1796 - Dec. 4, 1853


Allen J. Shemwell, Born Nov. 26, 1804, Died Dec. 8, 1879


Elizabeth N., wife of A. J. Shemwell, Born Sep. 17, 1817, Died Mar. 28, 1876


Rebecca Lassiter, Born Nov. 28, 1787, Died Sep. 25, 1870, aged 82 Ys., 10 Mos., ?? Dys.


Florence, daughter of T. M. & M. A. Rolls, Born July 8, 1885, Died Mar. 26, 1893