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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PRICE CEMETERY

At one time the approach to this large cemetery was from Old Stage Road. The least complicated approach, now:turn at U.S. Highway 70 onto Ledsinger Road and drive about 2 miles to Old Stage Road, onto which one turns and drives about .2 mile to McLemoresville Road, onto which one turns and drives about .9 mile to the driveway of Mr. John Thomsen, on the west side of the road. From this point one walks due south, through a wide field, crosses a drain, ascends a wooded ridge about .5 mile to this cemetery.

EDNA PRICE Mt. Ollie Circle No. 1351;died October 15, 1925 /born September 1898;dau of Charles and Lizzie Price/

LIDDA, wife of Dan FOSTER Born January 16, 1840 Died June 2, 1903 Though lost to sight to memory dear _______ HORNS Died June 16, 19_6 FH marker HURLEY ADAMS Born August 5, 1881 Died February 4, 1896 JENNIE COLEMAN wife of E. Coleman, no dates DORA dau of I. S. & J. S. COLEMAN Born May 4, 1876 Died August 24, 1896 ROBERT son of J. J. & M. E. COLEMAN Born July 26, 1867 Died September 7, 1885 EDDIE PRICE Born October 1891 Died March 26, 1937 FH marker /son of Levi Price/

McKINLEY WILLIAMS March 25, 1904-July 22, 1926 CORA LEE WILSON Died February 22, 1932 aged 17 years, 11 months Dilday FH marker LULA ADAMS Born October 19, 1878 Died February 5, 1896 AMANDA COLEMAN Mt. Ollie Circle No. 1351 Died January 22, 1928 ISAAC, Husband of Jennie COLEMAN Born January 1848 Died August 22, 1900 JENNIE wife of Isaac COLEMAN Born June 26, 1843 Died July 5, 1895 Home sweet home CHARLOTT McDONALD Mt. Ollie Circle No. 1351 Died September 8, 1926 /born 1871;dau of Levi Price/

 

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Mrs. LINNIE B. /Hilliard/ PRICE, died August 16, 1938 aged 42 years; FH marker

 

Buried here, according to Mrs. Vera Price Gilbert (born 1925), Huntingdon, Tennessee:
Rev. LEVI PRICE (December 1837-190?); his first wife, MARY; second wife, MANDY COLEMAN /married October 1880/; his third wife, LIZZIE SPRATT, widow Luter /married April 1884/ (August 1859-1951); son of Levi and Lizzie Price, GIDEON DUB PRICE (October 1886-October 30, 1941) and his wife, LINNIE (Hilliard) PRICE (died 1938); ETHLER ADAMS died April 17, 1936 aged 75 years; LEVI ROBERT PRICE, born May 1885; died November 9, 1944; JAMES EDWARD PRICE, infant son of Charles Price; IDA HILLIARD; GEORGE WILSON (died 1941) and his wife, IDELLA WILSON; CHARLES PRICE (1832-190?); ANGELINE WILSON, sister of George Wilson. PERHAPS buried here POKE COLEMAN and wife, EMILINE (Puss) COLEMAN (born October 1836), a sister of Rev. Levi Price, Charles Price and James Price.

According to Mrs. Gilbert, daughter of Gideon Dub Price and granddaughter of Reverend Levi Price, the latter established Mt. Zion Baptist Church at Mt. Olive; that his widow, Lizzie (who had first married a Luter) married /December 1918/ to Mart Adams; that the settlement at Mt. Olive disintegrated during the Second World War when families moved away to work in war industries.

Death certificates would indicate burials here:
FRANCIS ADAMS, female, August 16, 1866-March 2, 1917
VINNIE COLEMAN, February 1884-October 26, 1917;dau of Samuel and Adaline Wilson
CLEMMIE ADAMS died April 28, 1916 aged about 75 years

Cox Funeral Home indicates burials here:
CALVIN M. MERRIWEATHER died February 7, 1938 aged 99 years
DEALUS HILLSMAN died May 21, 1939 aged 23 years
ADELINE WILSON died August 20, 1933 aged 81 years
CALVIN ADAMS died October 21, 1941 aged 56 years

 

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