Alex Haley
African American Churches and Church Members
African American Funeral Homes
Reprinted with permission from Sumner County, Tennessee Cemetery Records, compiled by Margaret Cummings Snider and Joan Hollis Yorgason, 1981.
Below is only a partial listing of cemeteries. To search our full cemetery index or request a Cemetery Lookup Click Here.
| CEMETERY NAME | DISTRICT NUMBER |
| Austin | 16 |
| Barnes | 16 |
| Bell | 2 |
| Bender | 5 |
| Bennett | 1 |
| Bentley | 1 -- No markers. |
| Bratton | 11 |
| Bullock | 1 |
| Buntin | 16 |
| Carter | 4 |
| Davis | 15 |
| Drake | 1 |
| Duncan | 4 |
| Durham Chapel | 10 |
| Franklin Chapel | 3 |
| Gallatin City | 4 -- Section L |
| Hall | 14 |
| Harper | 11 |
| Hopewell Methodist Church | 16 |
| Hunter | 10 |
| Jameson Slave | 2 -- No markers, only field stones. |
| Lowe | 1 |
| McMurry-Haynes | 1 -- No longer exists. |
| Malone | 1 |
| Mills | 1 |
| Mt. Zion Kansas Church | 10 |
| Oak Grove | 15 |
| Old Beech Church | 7 -- Black section |
| Old Hopewell Methodist Church | 16 |
| Owens | 5 |
| Parkers Chapel Church | 16 |
| Payne | 1, 15 |
| Potete | 14 |
| Roach | 1-- No markers |
| Rogan | 1 |
| Scattersville New Hope Baptist Church | 16 |
| Senter's Chapel | 11 -- Black section |
| St. Matthews Methodist Church | 2 |
| Stark Knob Baptist Church | 5 |
| Swaney Slave | 1 -- No markers, only field
stones. These are said to be the slaves of John Lee Swaney |
| Sweatt | 1 |
| Templeton | 1 |
| Tolliver | 1 -- No markers |
| Village Green | 9 |
| Wallace | 14 |
| Walton | 5 |
| Watkins | 9 |
Go to the Church Histories and Membership Lists page. See the Bethpage Methodist Church and Parker's Chapel.
Go to the Community Histories page. See the History of Scattersville Community, written by Wava (Bratton) Young.
House Of White Funeral Home
261 E. Winchester St.
Gallatin, TN 37066-3352
615-452-4182
Johnson & Coleman Funeral Home
723 Anthony St.
Gallatin, TN 37066-2060
615-452-2060
Go to Funeral Homes in Sumner County, Tennessee
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| African American Cemeteries Online - TN | http://www.prairiebluff.com/aacemetery/tn.htm |
| AfriGeneas | African Ancestored Genealogy |
| Christine's Genealogy Page |
http://www.ccharity.com/ African Americans in TN & KY.Great site! |
| Cyndi's Genealogy Page |
List of African American
Genealogy Sites Excellent list of online resources! |
| Freedman & Southern Society Project | http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/ |
| Library of Congress: (Oral histories collected during the Work Projects Administration program for writers in the 1930s and 1940s) |
http://rs6.loc.gov |
| Partial Listing of lynching in the U.S. since 1859 | http://ccharity.com/lynching/ |
| People of Color in Old TN | http://www.tngenweb.org/tncolor |
INFORMATION |
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| Barrow, Charles Kelly | Forgotten Confederates Southern Heritage Press P.O. Box 347163 Atlanta, GA 30334 |
Contains transcribed letters from men to their families and friends. |
| Blockson, Charles L, & Fry, Ron. | Black Genealogy | |
| Brinkley, Velma & Malone, Mary Huddleston | Generations: A Pictorial Journey into the Lives of African-Americans in Sumner County, Tenn., 1796-1996 | Pictures with some information on people. |
| Byers, Paula K. | African American Genealogical Source book Gale Research Inc., 1995 |
Includes migration patterns and specific records for African Americans, etc. |
| Elder, Pat Spurlock | Tennessee Colored Confederate Pension
Applications Continuity Press, 1997 |
Includes a full name/place/military units index. Order from: Continuity Press, P. O. Box 567, Blountville, TN 37617-0567 |
| Gatewood, Willard B., Jr. | Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro
Soldiers, 1898-1902. 1971. |
The book consists of about 99% of letters written by Black soldiers to the various newspapers. They provided newspapers with details of their activities, primarily about the Spanish American War. |
| Lamon, Lester C. | Blacks in TN, 1791-1970 Knoxville: University of TN Press, 1981 |
Chapters include, Blacks and Slavery 1790-1860, Unfulfilled Promises 1860-1800, etc. Also, includes pictures and population figures. |
| McCormack, Edward | Slavery on the Tennessee Frontier Nashville TN: TN American Rev. Bicentennial Comm., 1971 |
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| Newman, Debra L. | List of Free Blacks Heads of Families in the First Census of the US
Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1973 |
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| Snider, Margaret Cummings & Yorgason, Joan Hollis. | Sumner County Tennessee Cemetery Records KY: McDowell Pub., 1981 |
Includes Black cemeteries |
| Stephenson, Wendell H. | Isaac Franklin: Slave Trader & Planter of the Old South, with
Plantation Records. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1938. |
368 pages. Reprinted in 1971 by P. Smith. |
| Walton-Raji, Angela | Black Indian Genealogy Research | |
| Wells, Carol | Sumner County Tennessee Court Minutes, 1787-1805 and
1808-1810 Heritage Books, 1995 |
Includes names of slaves in inventories, wills, etc. |
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