Date: January 25, 1940
McKISSICK (COMMUNITY) or BONE YARD

Location: East side of mouth of Sylco Creek at Parksville Lake or 7 miles up lake from Parksville on south side of lake. Parksville is 6 miles SE of Benton .
Number of graves: Approximately 40
Established: Before Civil War by Abraham Mckissick and discontinued around 1900.
Acreage: 1 acre Abraham McKissick died about 1874.
Ed Glenn hauled the corpse and a horse named Tom would not pull, but there was enough men to push the wagon.
Jake Rymer died about 1876 (Rymer fell dead) Mrs. Abraham McKissick, James McKissick; Mrs. Will Triplett; Lewis Triplett died about 1876 Columbus McKissick, son of Jack McKissick John McKissick, died about 1850 Mrs. John McKissick. (she was a Williams) Mrs. William McKissick, (she was a Hagler) Nancy McKissick, daughter of William McKissick) Charley Rymer, son of Alse Rymer Mary McKissick Two children of Nancy McKissick Howard George Howard was killed in a raid William J. and Martha Clements McKissack. Catherine Kerr Barker died about 1871 Martha, born 1883 died in 1990 at age 107! Edom Dixon who married a McKissick * Seven men killed in Gatewood's Raid. (Editor's note: According to an article in The Heritage of Polk County, Tennessee, page 20, seven men listed as being killed in the Gatewood Raid on November 29, 1864 in this area are: Thomas Bell, James Nelson, Harvey Brewster, Jim Hughes, John Christopher, Sam Lovell and Riley Sisson.)