TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM BLACK CEMETERIES
IN CARROLL COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Compiled by Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2000

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JOHNSON/CINDY CEMETERY

To reach this abandoned cemetery turn from U.S. Highway 70 onto Buena Vista Road in Huntingdon, Tennessee and drive about 1.7 miles to Green Allen Springs Road; turn thereon and drive vest about 4.3 miles to a gravel access road (gated); drive south on this road about 1.2 miles to a wooded ridge; from there walk north over the old field road through the woods about .4 mile to this cemetery situated on the west side of this old road. There are many unmarked graves here. Generally known as Cindy graveyard it was also called, by some people, the Johnson graveyard.

E. /Edmond/ CHAMBLISS Born September 2, 1860 Died September 25, 1921 Smyrna Chamber 2007, Huntingdon, Tenn. SEZAR son of Joe JOHNSON Born November 12, 1914 Died February 2, 1915 Age 4 mo. /his death certificate gives death date: January 13, 1915/ CLARA daughter of H. & H. JOHNSON /Henry and Harriet Johnson/ Born March 20, 1905 Died February 23, 1908 Dr. HENRY JOHNSON, Husband of Hairt Johnson Died January 1, 1916 Age 53 yrs. Be ready in such an hour as we think not the Son of Man cometh HESTER daughter of H. & H. JOHNSON Born January 10, 1883 Died March 12, 1883 A. C. son of B. W. & M. A. JOHNSON Born August 12, 1869 Died September 13, 1869 Gone to bloom in the garden of heaven with the happy & blest FRANCIS B. daughter of B. W. & M. A. JOHNSON Born September 10, 1862 Died September 13, 1869 Thou art gone little darling from earth's fairy strand to bright mansions above

ELLA wife of Miner JOHNSON Died March 17, 1878 aged about 33 yrs. HENRIETA WEBB Born March 3, 1906 Died February 25, 1925 At rest TOM CALDWELL Born January 15, 1865 Died February 17, 1925 RANEY JOHNSON son of H. & H. Johnson Born January 30, 1900 Died February 7, 1900 WILSON son of H. & H. JOHNSON Born February 10, 1884 Died March 1, 1903 HENRY son of H. & H. JOHNSON Born March 21, 1897 Died March (no day), 1899 CHARLIE W. son of B. W. & M. A. JOHNSON Born November 1 0, 1878 Died April 19, 1881 MARTHA S. daughter of B. W. & M. A. JOHNSON Born September 26, 1870 Died October 1, 1870 MAGGIE MELTON Died November 23, 1926

 

Also buried here were MARY BELL daughter of Willie and Pearlie Willis, born 1949; died in childhood; the young daughter of Gussie & Lucille (Willis) King

Death certificates indicate burials here:
WINSTEAD son of Allen and Martha pearson, Sept. 7, 1916-May 29, 1917
JASPER MARBERRY, 1895, Stewart Co., Tenn. -April 6, 1918
STEVEN MINER JOHNSON, son of Cezar and Cindy Johnson, Nov. 1858-Mar. 16, 1920
ELLA CALDWELL died March 20, 1920 aged 27 years
MELINDY JOHNSON died June 4, 1921 aged about 85 years
NANCY HAMPTON, July 1865-June 21, 1921
JOHN EDWARD son of Lewis and Genevie PEARSON, July 4, 1923-Aug. 5, 1923
SOUSANA BARNETT, daughter of Dock and Cilia Parsons, July 10, 1853-November 16, 1923

 

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