Douglass Graveyard
Tombstone Inscriptions

Contributed and Transcribed by
DeAnne A. Shelley

© 2001

Note: The following cemetery record comes from TSL&A
Microfilm #81 Historical Records Project,
Official Project No. 65-44-1499.
Copied under Work's Progress Administration
by Mrs. Alice Guthrie in 1936 & 1937

Note: Not all headstones in this cemetery are included. If you do not find the person you are looking for just e-mail the Cemetery Lookup person, Peggy Colella at Cemetery Lookups.


Located in a field on place owned by Mrs. W. S. Grimm, 9 miles west of Gallatin, TN on Station Camp Creek Road. Copied by Mrs. Alice Guthrie, April 13, 1937.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason give the following directions, "6 1/0 mi west of Gallatin on Long Hollow Read; than 6/10 mi north on Station Camp Creek Road. Cemetery...behind home of Mrs. Durham")

To the Memory of
Malissa Douglass, Daughter of
Reubin & Elizabeth Douglass.
Born May 21, 1802.
Died June 22, 1862.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason give the death year as 1833)

William Richard Douglass, Born June 24, 1808. Died Apr. 5, 1829

To the Memory of
Reubin Douglass
Born Apr. 6, 1767.
Died Aug. 26, 1832.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason give the birth year as 1763)

Elisa L. Wife of
W. J. Douglass
Born May 23, 1802.
Died Sept. 13, 1835.

Willie J. Douglass
Born Sept. 21, 1792.
Died Mar. 18, 1866.

To the Memory of
W. M. Franklin,
Born Sept. 15, 1784.
Died Oct. 31, 1876.
Age 82 yrs.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason give the first name as Wm)

Sacred to the Memory of
The Rev. William S. F. Clark,
Who came Hither
Jan. 6, 1806.
And west Home,
Aug. 16, 1847

Emma Clark
Born Aug. 21, 1806.
Died Dec. 10, 1881.

Reubin Clark,
Born Aug. 28, 1834
Died Dec. 29, 1864.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason gives the birth month as Jan.)

Ellen Clark Brown,
Born Dec. 16, 1845.
Died Jan. 2, 1928

Eveline Franklin, Wife of
W. M. Franklin,
Born Jan. 23, 1799.
Died Apr. 14, 1855
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason gives the birth year as 1792)

To the Memory of
Elizabeth Douglass, Wife of
Reubin Douglass, Daughter of
William & Sara Edwards,
Born June 25, 1774.
Departed this Life,
Jan. 9, 1859.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason gives the death as 9 Feb 1839)

Alfred D. Brown
Died Feb. 7, 1884.
Age 44 years.

Charles Clark,
Born May 8, 1835.
Died Apr. 1, 1911.

Martha Brown Clark, Born June 23, 1838. Died Sept. 22, 1912.
Charles B. Clark, Born April 27, 1875.Died June 5, 1892.
Jennie M., Wife of Rev. R. K. Brown, Born March 10, 1843. Died Dec. 26, 1862.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason gives the death year as 1867)
Benjamin D. Franklin, Born Aug. 2, 1840. Died Jan. 15, 1862.
Bettie Looney, Wife of Dr. P. Looney, Born Feb. 26, 1832. Died Sept. ____.
Here lies, James R. D. Franklin, Born Oct. 23, 1834. Died Apr. 7, 1835.
Here lies the Remains of William D. Franklin, Born Apr. 23, 1829. Died March __, 1834.
Henry Franklin, Born Aug. 23, 1826.
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason gives the death as 14 May 1829)
Peggy Green, Consort of Lewis Green, Born Dec. 23, 1796. Died Aug. 20, 1828.
In Memory of William Green, Born Feb. 12, 1814. Died June 20, 1850 .
(Note by DP: Book by Snider & Yorgason gives the death year as 1817)
In Memory of Thomas H. Bell, Born Dec. 23, 1817. Died Aug. 28, 1869.


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