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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GREEN ALLEN CEMETERY

Located on the southeast corner of Green Allen Springs and Buena Vista roads about a half-mile from the juncture of the latter road with U.S. Highway 70 in Huntingdon, Tennessee. This burial ground surrounds the white Hawkins family graveyard, that of John H. Hawkins (1796-1852), a native of Bath County, Kentucky, his wife and their family. It was an obvious outgrowth of the white family's antebellum slave burial ground.

D/SAM TAYLOR
1893-1930
EMMA TAYLOR
1890-1978

GEORGE NED TAYLOR
STM1 US Navy, World War II
1927-1977

D/SILAS CLARK died April 24, 1973
EXIE CLARK died June 19, 1977

D/ERNEST COLEMAN
1883-1966
ODIS COLEMAN
1897-1946

WILEY SUTTON
February 15, 1846-November 1, 1924
Thy God has claimed thee as his own

MITTIE SUTTON
died September 12, 1910

MARSHALL H. SUTTON
Tenn. PVT 18 Engr. SVC Co., W. W. I
December 25, 1895-May 30, 1950

MARY ______ daughter of _____
Bell(?)
Born January 4, 1874
Died April 15, 1885
(a broken tombstone)

LILLIE H. PARKER
March 23, 1906-December 5, 1987

JAMES HENRY DALTON
March 15, 1904-August 19, 1951

NED SHOFFNER
Born 1836
Died August 17, 1911
Blessed are the dead /that worship/the Lord, from henceforth yea saith the spirit that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them

ALBERTA CUNNINGHAM
1890-1963

IDA MAE TAYLOR
1924-1983
Beloved Sister

D/EMANUEL TAYLOR
1895-1989
BERTIE TAYLOR
1897-1982
In loving memory

ILAR VIVIAN JOHNSON
September 9, 1897-January 19, 1969
Beloved mother and wife

D/GREEN HAWKINS
Born August 1845
Died July 13, 1904
TIS HAWKINS
Born August 1843
Died April 21, 1915
Born to this union 11 children, six sons & five daughters

THOMAS SUTTON
May 8, 1869-February 25, 1948

LEATHEY wife of Wylie SUTTON
Born 1846
died April 1890
She died as she lived trusting in God

MARGARETT DOUGLAS BUCHANAN colored
Born in Henderson Co.;
died in Huntingdon, February 2, 1898
She was an industrious faithful friend, pleading earnestly for the uplifting of her race

ISHAM KILLENS
Born 1826 Died 1909 Aged 83 yrs.

WALTER SHOFFNER
Born January 1, 1878
Died February 4, 1896
Another good boy is gone; man is born of woman, is of a few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down, he fleeth as a shadow and continueth not

A. FOREMAN
Born 1828 Died 1891
Gone but not forgotten

 

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BILL MEALS
Born May 4, 1865
Died June 20, 1910
Surely goodness and mercy shal follov me all the days of my life and /1/ will dwell in the house of the Lord forever

HOMER JOHNSON
Tenn. PVT 18 SVC Co. 20 Engineer
World War I
April 15, 1893-April 6, 1961

GLADYS BRIDGEMAN
Born May 22, 1916
Died June 5, 1934

D/ERNEST SCATES
1874-1960
PEARLIE SCATES
1891-

ARNIE SHOFFNER
Tenn. PVT 44 Co. 157 Depot Brigade
World War I
July 4, 1896-September 10, 1957

 

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