HAMBLEN COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Tidence Lane Graveyard
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Tidence Lane Graveyard

Location:  Located north of Whitesburg, Tennessee on the Whitesburg
Pike.  It was copied  March 19, 1938 by Margaret Helms Richardson and
she stated the farm was owned by T. C. Hayes but was known as the
Garrett Lane Farm.  There are six graves maried with fieldstones.

Tidence lane was born Aug 31, 1724 and died Jan 30, 1806.  He was a
pioneer Baptist preacher.  He organized and became the first pastor of
Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church in 1779.  He became pastor of Bent Creek
Baptist Church which was organized Jun 12, 1785.  He was son of Richard
and Sarah Lane and was born in Maryland near Baltimore.  He married
Esther Bibbin (or Bibber) on May 9, 1743.  They had seven sons and two
daughters.  (Source:  JOURNEY INTO CENTURY THREE, Volume One, by Glenn
Alfred Toomey, pages 2, 3, 11.