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Tennessee Bible Records and Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions, 1930-1933

COLLECTION SUMMARY

Creator:

Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson, 1871-

Inclusive Dates:

1930-1933

Scope & Content:

Consists of two volumes containing tombstone inscriptions and genealogical data copied from cemetery records, family bible records, and histories of cemeteries with notarized affidavits certifying records. The two volumes are the typescript, unpublished versions of the two volumes that were later published. They highlight Revolutionary War soldiers and the record keeping of several Tennessee chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Volume 1 mainly lists the tombstone inscriptions and cemeteries. Volume 2 lists numerous family bible records that include births, deaths, and marriages. Some records include extended family biographies, copies of wills, and obituaries.

Made from compiled carbon copies, these volumes have several markings demonstrating the editing process. Handwritten notes in pen and colored pencil show disputes or deletions in the editing process. Some examples include who turned in the records for publication, corrected dates on tombstone inscriptions, or misspelling the last name Copper instead of Cooper.

A note in the front inside cover of Volume 1 reads: “Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions compiled by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen, State Regent, Daughters of the American Revolution, Presented to the Continental Hall Library in Washington, in honor of Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart President General N. S. D. A. R. Mrs. Russell William Magna [Edith A. Scott Magna] Librarian General N. S. D. A. R. 1931, October 12, 1933 a gift from Mrs. Jeannette Acklen.”

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Of note, some cemeteries mentioned in the volumes no longer existed in the 1930s. For example, the Lindsay Family Graveyard in Hendersonville, Sumner County, bears the notation “Defunct.” The Volume 1 records also provide Tennessee history of some founding cities and figures including the Henderson family and the founding of Hendersonville.

A handwritten note on the inside front cover of Volume 2 reads: “My dear Mrs. Moore, It is with great pleasure that I present to the State Library the carbon copies of the records compiled by me while state regent, credit to Cumberland chapter, DAR Nashville. The originals were bound and placed by me in the library of the DAR in Washington - very sincerely yours, Jeannette.”

Additionally, the volume lists marriages solemnized by Reverend Robert Boyte Crawford Howell in Norfolk, from 1827-1834, Nashville, Tennessee from 1834-1849 and 1857-1868, and Richmond, Virginia from 1850-1857. A section in Volume 2 highlights the biography of specific Revolutionary War soldiers including Thomas Kilgore, Dudley Brooke, and Henry Johnson. The volume features an autobiographical sketch of early Tennessee explorer John Cockrill. It also lists Revolutionary War service pension applications of men living in Robertson County in 1804.

Physical Description/Extent:

1.5 cubic feet

Accession/Record Group Number:

1970-004

Language:

English

Permanent Location:

I-C-1

Repository:

Tennessee State Library and Archives, 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, 37243-0312

Administrative/Biographical History

Jeannette Catherine Tillotson Acklen was born on November 11, 1871 in Leavenworth County, Kansas to Richard Montgomery Tillotson and Mary Agnes Parke. She moved to Nashville in 1888 and attended Ward Seminary School. In 1890, she married Colonel Joseph Acklen (1850-1938), who was the son of prominent Tennesseans Joseph and Adelicia Acklen. Jeannette and Joseph Acklen 2

had eight children: Robert Livingston Acklen, Richard Montgomery Acklen, Pauline Landis, William Hayes Acklen, Joseph Hayes Acklen, Claudia Maria Livingston Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson Noel, and Catherine Parke Brown.

She was actively involved in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and helped to restore . Additionally, she served as Vice President General of the National DAR and State Regent for the Tennessee branch. As a founding member, she helped organize the Cumberland Chapter and served as Regent. In 1952, she received the chapter’s award of merit for “outstanding achievement in Nashville and Tennessee.” In addition to her involvement in civic organizations, she taught French and history for 20 years at Watkins Institute. Acklen died on April 2, 1955 and was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.

(Adapted from Nashville Tennessean, Volume 48, Issue 340, on April 5, 1955, an obituary featured on page 84)

Daughters of the American Revolution in Tennessee

Mary Desha, Mary S. Lockwood, Ellen Walworth, and Eugenia Washington founded The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution on October 11, 1890, during a revival in patriotism and interest in the beginnings of the of America. The national headquarters is in Washington, D.C. On December 18, 1892, Mrs. Harvey Mathes of Memphis organized the first chapter of the Tennessee Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. The Dolly Madison Chapter of Memphis was the first chapter in Tennessee, and it later became the Hermitage Chapter. There are 103 chapters within the State of Tennessee. The state consists of five districts: Chickasaw, Cumberland, Sequoyah, Cherokee, and Appalachian.

(Adapted from https://www.dar.org/national-society/about-dar/dar-history and Kimberly Mills Wires’s finding aid for Daughters of the American Revolution, Tennessee Society Records and Collection Materials, 1894-2017, Tennessee State Library and Archives)

Organization/Arrangement of Materials List of Cemeteries, organized by County

Bedford County Martin Cemetery, Bell Buckle

Bradley County Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland

Cannon County Riverside Cemetery, Woodbury

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Carter County N.G. Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church Cemetery, between Johnson City and Erwin

Davidson County Allison Cemetery, Nashville Family Cemetery, Hermitage Binkley-Steele-Hagar Cemetery, Hermitage Bryan-Dillahunty Cemetery, Belle Meade Carmack Cemetery, Nashville Cartwright-Cunningham Cemetery, Goodlettsville Ewing Family Graveyard, Nashville Gleaves Cemetery, Hermitage Gower Cemetery, Nashville Granny White Gravesite, Nashville Hamblen Graveyard, Nashville Hoggatt Graveyard, Nashville Hooper Graveyard, Nashville Hyde Cemetery, Nashville James Buchanan Cemetery, Nashville Mill Creek Baptist Church Graveyard, Nashville Mount Calvary cemetery, Nashville Mount Olivet cemetery, Nashville , Nashville New Hope Church Cemetery, Hermitage Pasquo Cemetery, Pasquo Philips Sylvan Hall Cemetery, Nashville Smith Family Cemetery, Highway 100 South Harpeth Cemetery, Linton Springhill cemetery, Nashville Building and Grounds, Nashville Tucker-Hayes Cemetery, Forest Hills Vanderbilt Divinity School Cemetery, Nashville White-Ogden Cemetery, Nashville Wray Graveyard, Nashville

Giles County Mount Mariah Cemetery, Pulaski

Greene County Oak Grove Cemetery, Greeneville Old Harmony Graveyard, Greeneville

Grundy County Cemetery, Mount Olive

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Henderson County Center Hill Cemetery, seven miles south of Lexington

Jackson County Graves & Teele Graveyard, North Springs

Knox County Berry Highland Memorial Cemetery, Knoxville First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville Flenniken-Cunningham Cemetery, Knoxville Lebanon in the Fork Cemetery, Knoxville Old Knox County Courthouse Grounds, Knoxville

Lewis County Pioneer cemetery, Hohenwald

Lincoln County Kennedy-Thomison Cemetery, Fayetteville

Loudon County Harrison Cemetery, 1-1/2 miles from the town of Loudon New Providence Baptist Church Cemetery, Loudon Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, 8.6 miles from Loudon County Court House, north of Loudon 1/2 mile from Loudon

Macon County Bradley Cemetery, Lafayette

McMinn County Browder-County Line Cemetery, County Line Hwy 11, border of McMinn and Monroe County Cedar Grove Cemetery, Mount Harmony Baptist Cemetery, Athens Netherland-Rice Cemetery, Athens

McNairy County Barnhill Cemetery, Guys

Monroe County Cleveland Cemetery, Sweetwater Madisonville Cemetery, Madisonville Old Sweetwater Cemetery, Sweetwater

Robertson County Brooke Cemetery, Robertson County, between Cross Plains and Orlinda

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Carr Cemetery, Cross Plains, Hart Cemetery, Youngville Johnson Cemetery, along White House Road and Clarity Road near Springfield Mason Cemetery, Springfield Mount Sharon Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, Greenbrier Nuckolls Cemetery, Springfield Starks Cemetery, Orlinda Villines Cemetery, Cross Plains Woodard Cemetery, near Owens Chapel Road near Springfield

Rutherford County Batey Cemetery, Blackman Blackman Cemetery, Blackman Cemetery, Sandhill Eagleton Cemetery, Joyceland Evergreen Cemetery, Murfreesboro Lytle Cemetery, Murfreesboro Marrs Hill Cemetery, Eagleville Old City Cemetery, Murfreesboro Thomas Blanton Gravesite, Murfreesboro

Sevier County Forks of the Little Pigeon Cemetery, Sevierville Fox Cemetery, Sevierville McMahan Richardson Cove Cemetery, Richardson Cove Shiloh Memorial Cemetery, Pigeon Forge

Sumner County Barr Cemetery, Bethpage Beech Cemetery, Hendersonville Bethpage Cemetery, Bethpage Cage Family Cemetery, Cages Bend Cullen Douglass Family Cemetery, Gallatin Douglas-Pardue Cemetery, Gallatin Ferrell Family Cemetery, Gallatin Gallatin City Cemetery, Gallatin Grimm Cemetery, on the Long Hollow Highway, a mile west of Douglas Chapel Keeling Graveyard, Gallatin Lindsay Family Graveyard (Defunct), Hendersonville Old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Rogana Old Shiloh Church Graveyard, Gallatin Pioneer Cemetery, Castalian Springs Rock Castle Cemetery, Hendersonville Saunders Cemetery, Hendersonville Shiloh Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rogana, Stark Family Homestead Cemetery, Hendersonville

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Stratton Cemetery, Gallatin Willis Cemetery, Hendersonville

Trousdale County Willow Grove Cemetery, Templow

Unicoi County Fishery Union Church Cemetery, Erwin Jobe Cemetery, Erwin Martins Creek Cemetery, Erwin McInturff Cemetery, from Erwin take Hwy 107 NE 1.2 miles turn right on to Hwy 395 (Rock Creek Rd) go 1.5 miles turn right on McInturff cemetery Rd.

Washington County Cherokee Community Cemetery, Jonesborough Dry Creek Cemetery, Johnson City Fairview United Methodist Church Cemetery, Jonesborough Jonesborough City Cemetery, Jonesborough Leesburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Leesburg New Hope Cemetery, Jonesborough Old Dutch Meeting House Cemetery, Jonesborough Uriel Cemetery, near Jonesborough Washington College Station Cemetery, Washington College

Warren County Armstrong Church Cemetery, Irving College, Center Hill Cemetery, between Spring Creek and Steppsville Gwyn Family Graveyard, Viola Liberty Cemetery, McMinnville Mud Creek Shiloh Cemetery, Campaign Old Brown Cemetery, McMinnville Pine Bluff Church Cemetery, near Campaign, 1 ½ miles west of Rock Island on the Old Campaign road Shellsford Cemetery, McMinnville Shiloh United Methodist Church Cemetery, Steppsville Smyrna Cemetery, Irving College

White County Hudgens-Swift Cemetery, on knoll in pasture south of 365 Swift Rd., 0.25 mi. from junction Country Club Rd. Go south on gravel lane 0.1 mi., then southwest along fence 0.1 mi. Old Sparta Cemetery, Sparta Old Zion Cemetery, Sparta, Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Sparta

Williamson County

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Beard-Moss-Potts Cemetery, Greenbrier Crockett Cemetery, Brentwood Franklin City Cemetery, Franklin Green Hill Cemetery, Brentwood Jordan Cemetery Old, Triune Martin-Critz Cemetery, Burwood Mount Hope Cemetery, Franklin Murfree Cemetery, Franklin Price Robinson Lampkin Meeks Cemetery, College Grove Squire William Franklin Covington Cemetery, College Grove Sumners Knob Cemetery, 14 miles west away from Franklin

Wilson County Carter Family Graveyard, Lebanon Isaac Carver Cemetery, located on John Hagar Road, one mile south of Central Pike Mount Juliet Memorial Gardens, Mount Juliet Rutland Cemetery, Mount Juliet

Cemeteries outside of Tennessee

Alabama Fort Dale Cemetery, Butler County, Greenville Hutchings Cemetery, Madison County, Harvest

Kentucky Anderson Family Cemetery, Jefferson County, Louisville Garrard Family Cemetery, Bourbon County, Ruddles Mills Mathew Thomson Graveyard, Clark County, Thomson Richmond Cemetery, Madison County, Richmond Rogers Family Graveyard, Fayette County, Bryan Station

Missouri Kennedy Burying Ground, Warren County, Wright City

North Carolina Ashland-Richardson Family Estate Cemetery, Vance County, Williamsboro Centre Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Iredell County, Mooresville Montpelier Plantation Cemetery, Vance County, Henderson Settle Cemetery, Rockingham County

South Carolina Beersheba Presbyterian Church Cemetery, York County, Clover

Virginia

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Bruton Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery, Williamsburg County, Williamsburg City Hughes Cemetery, Patrick County McNew Cemetery, Washington County

Conditions of Access and Use

Restrictions on Access:

No restrictions.

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction:

While the Tennessee State Library and Archives houses an item, it does not necessarily hold the copyright on the item, nor may it be able to determine if the item is still protected under current copyright law. Users are solely responsible for determining the existence of such instances and for obtaining any other permissions and paying associated fees that may be necessary for the intended use.

Index Terms

Personal/Family Names:

Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson, 1871- Barlow family Barnes family Barnhill family Bell family Berry family Billingsley family Binkley family Boyd family Brevard family Brickell family Brooke, Dudley, 1762-1844 Browder family Brown family Buchanan family Burton family Campbell family Carlen family Carter family Cartwright family Carver family

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Cashmere family Chappell family Clark family Cockrell family Cockrill, John, 1757-1837 Cox family Crockett family Crouch family Cunningham family Daniels family DeWitt family Dickinson family Dodson family Douglas family Draper family Duncan family Eaves family Eden family Edwards family Embrey family Emerson family English family Everett family Ewing family Foster family Gamble family Gault family Graves family Haley family Hammond family Hardeman family Harding family Harper family Harrison family Hart family Hartzell family Hayes family Hill family Hinton family Holden family Hotchkiss family Howell, Robert Boyte C. (Robert Boyte Crawford), 1801-1868 Hudson family Hyde family Hyder family Isbell family

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Jetton family Johnson family Johnson, Henry, 1738-1815 Keel family Keys family Kilgore, Thomas, 1715-1778 King family Lee family Lenoir family Lester family Lotspeich family Lowe family Macomb family Macon family Masengille family Matthews family Maxwell family McCausland family McCown family McGavock family McGregor family McKee family McMahon family McMinn family Miller family Mize family Moore family Morrison family Mullendore family Murfree family Murphy family Noble family Noel family Officer family Oslin family Park family Pearson family Pettus family Peyton family Prather family Primm family Pritchard family Ramsey family Ray family Regan family Rickman family

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Roberts family Rogers family Sayer family Scott family Seaton family Shackelford family Shane family Sharp family Simms family Smith family Stark family Steele family Stoops family Stott family Stubblefield family Taliaferros family Taylor family Thompson family Tipton family Tirrill family Twigg family Walker family Wallen family Ward family Welch family West family Williams family Wills family Wren family Yocum family Young family

Corporate Names/Organizations/Government Bodies:

Daughters of the American Revolution Daughters of the American Revolution. Campbell Chapter (Nashville, Tenn.)

Subjects:

Burial records -- Tennessee -- Genealogy -- Sources Cemeteries -- Tennessee -- Genealogy -- Sources Marriage records -- Tennessee -- Genealogy -- Sources Sepulchral monuments -- Tennessee -- Sources

Geographic Names:

Bedford County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Bourbon County (Ky.) -- Genealogy -- Sources 12

Butler County (Ala.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Clark County (Ky.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Davidson County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Fayette County (Ky.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Giles County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Greene County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Grundy County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Henderson County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Iredell County (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Jackson County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Jefferson County (Ky.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Knox County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Lewis County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Lincoln County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Loudon County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Macon County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Madison County (Ala.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy -- Sources McMinn County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources McNairy County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Monroe County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Patrick County (Va.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Robertson County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Rockingham County (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Rutherford County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Sevier County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Sumner County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Trousdale County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Unicoi County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources Vance County (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Warren County (Mo.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Warren County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Washington County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Washington County (Va.) -- Genealogy -- Sources White County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Williamsburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Williamson County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources Wilson County (Tenn.) -- Genealogy -- Sources York County (S.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources

Document Types:

Affidavits Bible records Biographies (literary works) Birth records

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Burial records Carbon copies Death records Histories (literary works) Manuscripts (documents) Marriage records Obituaries Wills

Acquisition and Appraisal

Provenance and Acquisition:

Jeannette Tillotson Acklen donated this bound carbon copy to the Tennessee State Library on October 12, 1933. She was the State Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The original copy was placed in Washington, D.C., at the Daughters of the American Revolution library.

Processing and Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Tennessee Bible Records and Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions, 1930- 1933, Tennessee State Library and Archives.

Processing Information:

Processing was completed by TSLA Archives Collection Services intern Jacqueline Devereaux in January 2021. No items were removed from this collection during processing.

Existence and Location of Copies:

The Daughters of the American Revolution library in Washington D.C. houses manuscript copies in two library buildings. At the main library, the typescript 1932 book is classified as TENN VITAL ACK. The Seimes Technology Microfilm Center owns two copies of the 1933 edition of the book which is classified under FILM/SP. COL/TENN/21 and FILM/GEN/FAMILIES/SW16-18.

Related Archival Materials:

Daughters of the American Revolution, Campbell Chapter, Records, 1806- 1997, Tennessee State Library and Archives.

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Daughters of the American Revolution, Tennessee Society, Records and Collected Materials, 1894-2017, Tennessee State Library and Archives.

Publication Note:

Acklen, Jeannette T. Tennessee Records: Bible Records and Marriage Bonds. : Genealogical Pub. Co, 1980.

Acklen, Jeannette T. Tennessee Records: Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Co, 1994.

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DETAILED COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

CONTAINER LIST

Contents/Item Title Date Box Volume 1 1930-1933 1 Volume 2 1930-1933 2

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