Old Toles Chapel Cemetery is located in east Camden on the wooded hill-side called Dobson's Hill at the-southeast junction of Stigall Street and Lumber Street. There are reportedly several hundred unmarked graves in this burial ground, this having long been the principal cemetery for black persons in the Camden area for several generations. Several years ago the site was "cleared" and some of the tombstones were moved around and not replaced at the appropriate graves.

            To present the most complete record possible for this cemetery the list below combines data from Jonathan K. T. Smith's Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Benton County, Tennessee (copyright 1995, revised edition 1998) and the Benton County Genealogical Society's Cemetery Listings of Benton County, Tennessee (copyright 1997). Jonathan Smith visited Toles Chapel Cemetery in 1975, 1995 and 1998. Coy Horace Bawcum visited the cemetery in 1996. This merged list was compiled by David Donahue, July 2004.

Markers Read (Smith unless noted otherwise)

Boyd, Charles E., 1939-1958, temporary marker [Smith and Bawcum]

D., Ann, no dates [Ann Dunlow: March 2, 1847-Apr. 3, 1923 (death certificate)]

D., Isaiah, no dates [Isaiah Donloe, May 30, 1879-May 2, 1956 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Donloe, Lelia, April 2, 1889-Nov. 12, 1920, "Wife of Jim Donloe" (fallen)

Donlow, Solomon, Aug. 15, 1837-June 17, 1910 [read in 1975]

McC, Nettie, no dates [McAuley, Nettie, 19, 1900-December 11, 1942 (Camden Funeral Home record)]

McClure, F. [Frank] J., Aug. 23, 1884-Feb. 25, 1915, "Son of Allen & Lizzie McClure" (fragments)

Montgomery, Henry, May 10, 1855-June 8, 1921

Nance, Elbert, Dec. 28, 1892-June 14, 1921

Simons, Josh, Sept. 28, 1822-July 28, 1905
Simons, Phylis, June 20, 1836-Dec. 11, 1915

Toles, Arthur, d. Feb. 26, 1887 [Bawcum]

Baker, Ethel Yarbrough, Jan. 25, 1890-Apr. 1, 1963 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Barnett, Ernest David, July 22, 1931-Mar. 27, 1946 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Barnett, Etta, d. May 18, 1932, age 39 years (Camden Funeral Home record)

Blakely, William, Oct. 1860-Sept. 20, 1925 (death certificate)

Boyd, Wesley, born July 21, 1922, buried Aug. 26, 1933 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Boyd, Willie Mae, Oct. 2, 1926-Feb. 28, 1964 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Brown, Malissa, July 5, 1880-July 19, 1914 (death certificate)

Cooley, Leonard, buried Dec. 18, 1936, age 104 years (Camden Funeral Home record)

Cooley, Martha, Apr. 20, 1869-Mar. 17, 1924 (death certificate)

Cunningham, George, Jan. 5, 1872-July 13, 1939 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Donloe, Jim, Sept. 19, ____-May 10, 1956, age 69 (Canden Funeral Home record)

Donloe, W. E., Apr. 17, 1884-June 30, 1944 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Dunlow, Lula, May 30, 1889-Nov. 12, 1990 (death certificate)

Dudley, Edith, Jan. 31, 1887-July 9, 1919 (death certificate)

Easley, Walter B., May 24, 1918-June 6, 1918 (death certificate)

Jones, Add, Dec. 10, 1883-Feb. 7, 1944 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Kaufman, Albert, d. Dec. 15, 1924, age about 90 years (death certificate)

Lawrence, Mary Montgomery, June 20, 1899-July 28, 1961 (Camden Funeral Home record)

McAuley, Mary, Oct. 13, 1859-June 19, 1943 (Camden Funeral Home record)

McAuley, Sallie, Dec. 20, 1880-Aug. 13, 1949 (Camden Funeral Home record)

McCawley, Martha, Sept. 24, 1845-June 12, 1921 (death certificate)

McClure, Frank, Aug. 24, 1884-Feb. 25, 1915 (death certificate)

McClure, Mary Frank, Aug. 26, 1913-May 2, 1914 (death certificate)

McClure, Nathaniel, Apr. 8, 1911-Apr. 12, 1933 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Montgomery, Lillian Mae, Dec. 25, 1888-Sept. 27, 1952 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Prevatt, Riley, Aug. 9, 1858-May 28, 1920 (death certificate)

Silas, Georgia, Oct. 17, 1864-July 4, 1948

Strickland, Cleta, July 15, ____-Jan. 24, 1931, age 23 (Camden Funeral Home record)

Strickland, Eugene, d. May 19, 1930

Tharpe, Isie Dore, Mar. 1, 1901-May 9, 1918 (death certificate)

Wyly, George, Mar. 10, 1857-June 24, 1939 (Camden Funeral Home record)

            Information provided by Lonnie and Martha Boyd: "The following is a list of gone but not forgotten people whom we would like to have respected in this cemetery. This is only part of my family, but there are over 100 or more deceased buried there."

Boyd, Bud, Sr. (My Father)
Boyd, Bud, Jr. (Brother)
Boyd, Charles Edward (Brother)
Boyd, Westley (Brother) [see Boyd, Wesley, Camden Funeral Home record above]
Boyd, Willie Mae (Sister) [see Camden Funeral Home record above]
Strickland, Cletus (Sister) [see Strickland, Cleta, Camden Funeral Home record above]
Strickland, Eugene (My Wife's Father) [see Camden Funeral Home record above]
Strickland, Hallie (Mother)
Strickland, Lenore (Sister)
Strickland, Leroy (Brother)
Strickland, Mary Dean (Sister)
McCalley, Mary (Grandmother) [see McAuley, Mary, Camden Funeral Home record above]