Benton County, Tennessee Genealogical Society
Committee on Restoration and Identification
of Neglected and Abandoned Cemeteries

UPDATE: November 2004

The Society is no longer attempting to clean up and repair abandoned cemeteries. They continue to locate and identify cemeteries.
If you are participating in a cleanup of a family cemetery, and it was not being done through the Society, please let them know.

This project is to identify abandoned and neglected cemeteries that have no affiliation with a church or other organization.

Duties of the committee will be to clean debris and make the monuments and cemetery visible and to erect signs if needed for the purpose of identification and preservation of these Benton County cemeteries for future generations of researchers.

Duties will also consist of notifing the advertising committee in ample time to advertise the designated cemetery and time of clean-up, so other interested individuals can have the opportunity of donating time, money or materials.

If a sign needs to be purchased and erected, the committee will be responsible in acquiring estimates and bringing this information to the society at the next monthly meeting for approval.

This is an ongoing project that will not be expected to be completed in one year.

Please keep in mind that we are renovating the abandoned cemeteries but we do not have the man power or the resources to maintain them. So this is everyone's chance to form groups & dates to get together and maintain their family cemetery.

These are the people that volunteered for the cemetery committee:

Doris and Tracy Hightower
Ben Hightower
Adam Hightower
Brenda and Artie Griffith
Bobby Hollingsworth
Don Floyd
Floyd Robins
Nell Morisette
Larry Sooter
Kenny Autry
Raymond Lindsey (deceased)
Fay Cain

Anyone wishing to help work on these or donate materials please contact one of the members of the Cemetery Committee or send a letter to:

Benton County Genealogical Society
c/o Cemetery Committee
P.O. Box 775
Camden, TN 38320

When making donations, specify which cemetery.

If you know of a cemetery that needs attention, contact the Committee or address above, listing the cemetery, location, condition and give the last known condition of the cemetery with a rough location. The current listing of cemeteries that are candidates are listed at Cemetery Candidates For Marking and Cleaning

After much hard work and fun, please view the
Cemeteries Completed

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