Mr. Haywood Green, local historian and writer of the Mason Hall and Turnpike area, and I recently visted three (3) local cemeteries not included in the cemetery pages. The cemeteries were transcribed in 1960 by Mr Green and are mentioned in his book Mason Hall Community History. Mr. Green has given his permission to post them in the hope that someone may be able to use this information. Milton Webb of Rutherford has found a few more markers in Miles Cemetery and they are posted on his family web page on the Gibson Co site.
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in Obion County Dennis in Union City
THE TURNPIKE CEMETERIES
These three cemeteries are some of the oldest in the county and at one time contained very many grave markers. They are located just south of the old Turnpike Bridge north of Mason Hall. The cemeteries have long been abandoned and very few markers remain today.
ROACH Cemetery
Two miles southwest of the Turnpike north of Ferrell Road on a road that no longer exists
fromTrimble to the Turnpike.
J. O. Roach 8 Apr 1806 - 3 Dec 1884
Ladooska Roach 25 Mar 1835 - 14 Jan 1868 w/o J. R. Roach
Susan Crain 28 Sep 1860 - 22 Mar 1861 d/o F. and S. Crain
Eliza Reeves 17 Nov 1824 - 30 Sep 1860
William N. Noonan 7 Jul 159 - 2 Jan 1885
MILES Cemetery
One mile south of the Turnpike on C. K. Hardin Rd.
Nancy A. Carr 8 Oct 1825 - 7 May 1844 w/o J. A. Carr
Sally Reeves 16 Sep 1857 - 13 Nov 1875
Hanna Rust 6 Feb 1821 - 10 Sep 1896 w/o Armand Rust
Vanleah Miles 14 Dec 1884 - 16 Oct 1908 Lofton Miles 16 Jul 1882 - 25 May 1906
Milissa Miles 4 May 1851 - 25 Aug 1878 w/o W. C. 'Billy' Miles 1849 - 1897
Mary Wright 8 Mar 1808 - 1879 w/o H. W. Wright
James Jonathon Jackson CSA 1808 - 1879
Harold J. Wright 16 Jan 1917 - 23 Oct 1919
FINCH cemetery
One mile southeast of Turnpike on the Harman Caudle Road
which was once the main road from Kenton to Troy.
Norton Oakes 17 Feb 1799 - 2 May 1866
A. J. Pierce 31 Aug 1872 - 13 Aug 1898
J. M. Pierce 22 Feb 1841 - 4 Jan 1912
Robert Lee Pierce 11 Mar 1873 - 1882 s/o J. M. Pierce
Elsie Pierce 1 May 1842 - 18 May 1884 w/o J. M. Pierce
Amos Finch 16 Dec 1821 - 1 Sep 1881
Susan Augusta Pierce Finch 15 Apr 1819 - 1895 w/o Amos Finch
Frances Tennessee Finch 3 Jun 1846 - 27 Apr 1916 d/o Amos Finch