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Rutherford Cemetery

Located 7 miles west of Halls, Tennessee off highway 88, on Rutherford Road in the
Double Bridges-Porter's Gap Community of Lauderdale County.
Transcribed by Doris Duncan on 2/4/99
Updated by Robbie Harrell, December 2005
Tombstone photos by Martha Morgan O'Dell (2006 and 2008)

NAME BIRTH DEATH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

CLEMENT, Mary McCulloch Porter

PORTER, Mary Ann McCullock Clement

 1832 1912 Mother Mary McCulloch Porter Clement (1832-1912)
Note (from Mary Clement Douglass, g-gr-dau of Mary Porter): There is an error engraved into the Clement tombstone. Mary Ann McCulloch Clement Porter should be the way the inscription reads, but the engraver reversed the two last names because it was on the Clement stone. Mary wed Ben Porter after the death of her husband Edwin Clement.
CLEMENT, Benjamin Moore 1860 1936 Buried in Halls, Husband Clement / Porter TombstoneBenjamin Moore Clement (1860-1936)
CLEMENT, Coquilla "Cora" Applewhite 1864 1907 Wife Coquilla "Cora" Applewhite Clement (1864-1907)
CLEMENT, Johnnie
.
 1900 infant son of Ben and Cora Clement
CLEMENT, two infant daughters 1885 1907 .
The above CLEMENT stones were erected by their grandchildren

HOLLAND, Judieth

July 24, 1828 April 4, 1854 Aged 26 yr. 3 mo. 12 days Tombstone - Judieth HOLLAND, 1828-1854
Sacred to the memory of
Erected by her son & daughter
H. E. & Sarah Rutherford
McCABE , A. P. Granville 1825 1842 In memory of
*Broken stone Tombstone - A. P. Granville McCABE, 1825-1842

RUTHERFORD, Henry

 Aug. 17, 1762 May 20, 1847 Aged 84 yr. 9 mo. & 3 days
Erected by his son Henry F. Rutherford Tombstone - Henry RUTHERFORD, 1762-1847
Sacred to the memor of
A plaque placed by Fort Prudhomme Chapter DAR
Revolutionary Soldier 1775 - 1783 Tombstone Plaque Revolutionary Soldier - Henry RUTHERFORD, 1762-1847

RUTHERFORD, James A.

 Sept. 17, 1837 Nov. 19, 1852 Aged 15 yr. 2 mo. 2 days
Sacred to the memory of

RUTHERFORD, Leonella  R.

 Nov. 24, 1848 Feb. 8, 1851 Aged 2 yr. 2 mo. & 15 days Tombstone - Leonella R. RUTHERFORD, 1848-1851
Sacred to the memory of

RUTHERFORD, Mary

 Mar. 1, 1763 June 12, 1839 Aged 70 yr. 3 mo. Tombstone - Mary RUTHERFORD, 1763-1839
Sacred to the memory of
*A plaque placed by Prudhomme Chapter DAR
Wife of Revolutionary Soldier 1775 - 1783

RUTHERFORD, Mary J.

 July 3, 1831 July 2, 1851 Aged 20 years
Sacred to the memory of
Footstone: M.J.R.
THOMPSON, A. B. Dec. 26, 1836   *Broken stone Tombstone - A. B. THOMPSON, born 1836

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