TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM BLACK CEMETERIES
IN BENTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
(Revised Edition with Maps)
Compiled by Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1995

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SETTLES SLAVE GRAVEYARD

Located a little over a mile southeast of Cowell's Chapel, near Camden, on the north side of Birdsong Cut-Off Road and near Prairie Branch, a tributary of Cypress Creek. Sources: Mr. William C. Branch (1890-1981) and Mr. John Dwight Melton (1902-1985), of the Camden, Tennessee vicinity, both having had this graveyard pointed out to them by older citizens.

 

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