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INTRODUCTION This compilation contains records of cemeteries, graveyards, and graves as found in Rutherford County, Tennessee and along the county lines contiguous to Rutherford County, i.e., Davidson County, Wilson County, Cannon County, Coffee County, Bedford County, Marshall County, and Williamson County. Also within this compilation are some Family Records, death information from Session Minutes of 1st Presbyterian Church of Murfreesboro, and information from death notices found in early newspapers in Rutherford County and the Middle Tennessee area. A copy of the 1878 Beers Map, divided into nine (9) segments, has also been included. The beginning of this book contains copies of USGS map quadrangles. I have placed a number on these quadrangle maps which correspond to the number of the cemetery in this book. With the map location of the cemetery along with the brief direction descriptions given with each cemetery, it is hoped that the reader will be aided in identifying each cemetery location. I have also included a copy of the 1878 Beers map of Rutherford County. A larger copy of this map is located in the Rutherford County Register’s Office in Murfreesboro. Percy Priest Lake Relocation and Mt. Juliet Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee The federal government acquired 20,000 acres of land, located in Davidson, Wilson and Rutherford counties, for the Percy Priest Lake and Dam Project. 97 family cemeteries located within the three counties had to be relocated prior to the construction of the dam and the filling of the lake. The contract for removal and relocation of these cemeteries fell to the Army Corps of Engineers and was signed on March 18, 1966, and all work was completed on July 13, 1966. In the Completion Report, it was stated that the first step was the purchase of re-interment space at Mt. Juliet Cemetery, Wilson County, TN. The Relocation Project required the relocation of 2,243 graves and 97 cemeteries to Mt. Juliet Cemetery or other cemetery, as designated by family descendants; the removal and re-setting of 478 gravestones and monuments, the installation of 1,738 new concrete graves markers and 109 Section markers. Also, included in the Completion Report were photographs of the individual cemeteries prior to removal and after relocation. List of property owners where the cemeteries were located. Name, number of each cemetery, with the names and death dates, of those burials which had grave markers. Plat map of graves in each cemetery prior to removal. Maps showing the locations of the original cemeteries prior to removal. List of cemeteries, number of reburials, and Sections of these reburials in Mt. Juliet Cemetery, Wilson County, TN. Plat maps and Section maps, showing the relocation sites, in Mt. Juliet Cemetery. A family history researcher may study copies of the Corps of Engineer records at the Nashville-Davidson Metro Government Archives. Evergreen Cemetery The data for Evergreen Cemetery inscriptions is enormous and for that reason I have listed it in alphabetical order at the end of this volume. NAMES OF BURIALS IN EVERGREEN CEMETERY DO NOT APPEAR IN THE MASTER INDEX. Stones River National Battlefield Cemetery & Roselawn Cemetery These 2 cemeteries are NOT included in this book. The Battlefield Cemetery is well-documented and information concerning burials may be obtained from their office at the Battlefield site. Roselawn Cemetery is a very recent cemetery and their office can furnish information concerning burials. Abbreviations The following abbreviations were used to consolidate space: m. = married; b. = born; d. = died; dau. = daughter; husb. = husband; b/d = born & died on same day; y m d = year month day; N = north; E = east; S = south; W = west; NW = northwest, etc. Cemetery Information All pertinent genealogical information has been copied as correctly as possible, though some errors may have been made. Spelling of names is listed as inscribed on the gravestone. Only those who have worked with old tombstones know how difficult it can be at times to read some of the stones. However, an attempt was made to preserve information before it is forever lost by the ravages of time and elements, vandalism, neglect due to family relocations and the inevitable march of progress. Inevitably, there is some duplication of information as supposition of burials and relocations of graves occurred. The locations of the cemeteries correspond to and are indicated by number on reductions of the U. S. Geological Survey, 7½ minute quadrangle maps, each identified by name with a grid in the front of this volume to show its placement. A short descriptive paragraph is given with each cemetery, which includes directions to the cemetery or graveyard from Murfreesboro as a starting point. Many graves have been lost to history and can never be found or recorded. Graves also exist with only a sandstone or fieldstone marker, which may or may not have had an inscription. Weather and time have erased anything which may have been inscribed. This compilation is an attempt to bring together into one volume the many pieces of information collected over the years by countless people, many of whom have now gone on to their own grave. Jeannette Tillotson Acklen in her book “Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts” Pub. 1933 is referred to as “Acklen.” Jill K. Garrett & Iris H. McClain in their book “Some Rutherford Co., Tenn. Cemetery Records” Pub 1968 is referred to as “Garrett & McClain.” Deane Porch published in July 1965 “Evergreen Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.” Rutherford Co., Tenn. Cemeteries: Vol I, Northwest Third of County; Vol II, Eastern Third of County, & Vol III, Southwest Third of County prepared by Stones River Chapter, S.A.R. and Rutherford County Historical Society, 1975. Others who tromped through heavy underbrush, up and down hills, behind barns, etc., etc., gathering data from old tombstone inscriptions and acknowledged here are: Hector Floyd Adams, Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Barringer, Robert Baskin, Margaret Batey, Mrs. C. E. Beaty, Troy Bell, Margaret Blair, Franklin Blanton, Mrs. Joe Bowman, Moses Boyd, Miss Elvira Brothers, David Brown, Leffel Brown, Janet Buckner, Caroline K. Burrus, Gary Caffey, Mrs. Joe Cates, Steve Cates, Almond Chaney, Andrew Chaney, George & Shirley Chaney, C. A. Chaney, Tom Covington, Stephen D. Cox, Thomas Craddock, Mark Crocker, Polly Dam, Kim Denny, Debbie Duke, Bill Dyer, Jr., Mrs. John Dyer, Steve Eaton, Karen Eggleston, Susie Eiselstein, Jane Elrod, Annie Jo Frost, Diana Gannon, Mike Gentry, Donna Gibson, Allen Gooch, Wayne Gray, Allen Green, Margaret Green, Mrs. Robert Gwynne, Estelle Hall, Miss Mary Hall, Sue Harrison, Anne Hatcher, Jimmy Haynes, Sandra Haynes, Kathy Heaton, Eva Mai Herrod, Rickey Herrod, Vicky Herrod, Charles E. Hodge, Lytle Hodge, Gary Hollandsworth, Claudia Hollandsworth, Elizabeth Hoover, Walter K. Hoover, Bettye Jane Huggins, Lillian Hunkins, John Hunter, Robert Jacobs, Allen Jakes, William Jakes, Mrs. Mary Jenkins, Madeline Jernigan, Martha Jernigan, Roger Jett, Ernest King Johns, T. N. Johns, Buford & Lillian Brown Johnson, Mrs. Raymond H. Johnson, W. H. & Sarah King, Mr. & Mrs. George Kinnard, Ruth Krueger, Edna Todd Lackie, Church Lamb, Cindy Lamb, John Lancaster, Jerry Laws, William C. Ledbetter, Bruce Lynch, Mrs. Herman Major, Angus Maples, Marion Brittain Maxwell, Mrs. James H. McBroom, Jr., Don McCord, Ben Hall McFarlin, Donnie McKnight, Mr. & Mrs. J. B. McNeil, Mrs. Carrie Mitchell, John Morgan, Nancy Morgan, Tom & Mary Will Morgan, Kevin Mulligan, Janice Nolen, Denny Page, Patricia Parker, Jean Peay, Robert Peay, Glenn & Ruth Perdill, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Perry, A. B. Phelps, Homer Pittard, Bobby Pope, Brenda Prewitt, Nancy Puckett, Leon Qualls, Robert & Sue Ragland, Betty Ragsdale, Myrtle Smotherman Ragsdale, Alice Ray, Patti Richie, Bill Rogers, Stan Sadler, Mr. and Mrs. George Sanders, Robert Sanders, Patti Schneider, Bobbie Sue Shelton, Dr. Kevin Smith & his students (MTSU), Pat Smith, Carolyn Smotherman, Dorothy E. Smotherman, Leoma & Noble Smotherman, Gladys Stacy, Ray Stacy, Thomas Steagall, James Lawson Stone, Jane Lawrence Stone, Doug Stroop, Mrs. Mary Stroop, R. P. Summers, Frank Sweeney, Roy Tarwater, Franklin Thomas, Kenneth C. Thomson, Jr., Lonnie Tolbert, Mrs. Willie E. Toombs, Deborah Travis, Vernon H. Traylor, Mrs. C. O. Vance, Emily Vance, Foster Vaught, John C. Waggoner, Jr., Mary E. Waldron, Katherine & William Walkup, Keith Wallace, Mr. & Mrs. George F. Watson, John Weaver, W. H. Westbrooks, Ronald D. Wharten, Bertram Hamilton White, Eustace Williams, Mrs. James I. Williams, Robert Willis, Elaine Wolfe, Nancy Worley, Henry G. Wray, Rita Wright, Ike Young., and others whom I may have overlooked but gratefully acknowledge their contributions to this massive undertaking. General Information Although there are some current (2004) burials listed in this volume, little attempt was made to update or correct listings after ca 1966. At approximately that time people entered the Social Security rolls and their death dates, along with their birth dates, can be obtained from the Social Security Death Index which is located in several places on the internet. I have great respect for the earlier compilers of cemetery information who did not have a computer to work with to index the thousands of names that appear in this book. Although an attempt has been made to include every known cemetery and graveyard, inevitably many will be found and “unearthed” after publication of this book. I have tried to make this book as comprehensive and as usable