note:
There are no naturally occuring rocks in Weakley County suitable for carving into tombstones. (Weakley only has some very soft sandstone and some gravel, which lie in deep veins.)   Very few tombstones are known to exist in Weakley County prior to the arrival of the railroads in the early 1870s ... the few stones that can be found prior to the 1870s, are usually very thin small stones.  Since William's and Hannah's stones seem to be a matched pair, William's stone was probably placed at his grave many years after his death, and was probably set close to the time of Hannah's death.

Jerry Cavender