TNGenWeb Cemetery Database

This database contains cemetery surveys and transcriptions from a number of counties across the state of Tennessee. It contains all cemeteries in the US Geological Survey for Tennessee as well as several cemeteries that are not identified by the USGS. This is a work in progress and is the result of the work of many, many volunteers. Your feedback on this effort and suggestions for improvements are welcomed.

Anderson Bunch Cemetery
Perry Co. TN

ID	1278986
Cemetery	Anderson Bunch
USGS GNIS ID	1278986
State	TN
County	Perry
Latitude	35.522293091
Longitude	-87.934196472
Elevation	463
USGS map	Pope
Location	Located on Bunch Cemetery Road off Holder Cemetery Road
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Unmarked graves
Fieldstone markers
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Record created	1 Mar 2008
Record updated	14 Sep 2008

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More Information

The Anderson Bunch Cemetery is one of three Bunch cemeteries in the Cedar Creek area of Perry County, Tennessee. The cemetery is shown on the U.S.G.S. Pope quadrangle in the south central part of the map on the road which passes the Holder Cemetery. The cemetery probably dates to the 1820s and contains 26 stone burial cairns. In 1988 most of the cemetery was overgrown and only active portions had been mown. There were many fieldstones among the three-foot tall grasses. In 1999 the entire cemetery was being mown; however, almost all the fieldstones had been removed. Probably fewer that one-third of the burials here are identified.

David Donahue recorded Anderson Bunch Cemetery December 25, 1988, updated it April 16, 1999, and checked and updated it September 14, 2004. Ermadine Riley and J. Ervin Riley recorded this cemetery previously. Their work appears as "Anderson Bunch Cemetery" in The River Counties, Vol. 13, Nos. 1-4, 1984, pp. 29-33. References are made to their work where appropriate.

Mary (Stewart) Bowen and Melissa (Snyder) Bowen recorded this cemetery in the early 1990s. Their record appears in Perry County, Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions (Vol. 1) (Mary N. Bowen, Linden, Tennessee, 1992). They designate the western side of the cemetery as a separate Moore Cemetery.

Reported by the Rileys

The following names appear on the Riley's listing for this cemetery. Markers for these individuals were not found in 1989, because either the markers were no longer readable or were hidden in the 4 ft. tall grass.

Bunch, Argie?
Bunch, Mary E., Apr. 15, 1838-??? [apparently adjacent to marker for Geo. D. Bunch]
Bunch, S. A., 1788-1867
Cotton, Caroline, Mrs. d. July 30, 1937
Landers, Ben, Jan. 20, 1946, "1 month"
 

Ermadine Riley writes the following note about S. A. Bunch:
"This is Anderson Bunch. He is entombed in a cairn. We find 28 cairns and 4 fieldstones grouped together in this cemetery. Anderson's wife and some of their children are entombed in some of these. We found letters J. D.?, Mary, A. I. (or A. L.). S. Anderson Bunch married a Bunch. He had 4 daughters, two married Mayberrys, 1 married a Helm, and 1 married a Holder. Four sons married four daughters of Samuel Denton."

The Rileys' listing appears in The River Counties, 13(1-4), 1984. The editor of the journal notes that the following individuals are reported to be buried in this cemetery:

Bunch, Rev. Troy, 79, died 25 March 1982, native of Perry County, minister of the Methodist Church for 37 years; son of George and Martha Kelley Bunch; married Nina Peavahouse. (Daily Herald, Columbia, TN, 26 March 1982)

Crossnoe, W. Benjamin, 87, retired farmer, died 19 Oct. 1976, married Delia Barnes, who survived. (Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 1976)

Dedrick, Robert Samuel, 19, body found 14 Oct. 1979, native of Ohio, but had lived greater part of his life in Clifton; son of Mrs. Karen Cottrell Haugenhaugh of Ravenna, Ohio, and Ashley Dedrick of Clifton. (Wayne County News, 18 Oct. 1979)

Hickerson, Albert, 91, of Cedar Creek, died 17 Jan. 1975, married Delphia Richardson. (Nashville Tennessean, 18 Jan. 1975)

Landers, Benny, 83, retired commercial fisherman, died 20 Feb. 1978, married Claris Gallyon. (Nashville Tennessean, 22 Feb. 1978)

Wilson, Robert Monroe, 92, died 27 Sept. 1976, survived by nieces and nephews. (Perry Countian, 1 Oct. 1976)

This cemetery is located in the Cedar Creek section of the Tennessee River Watershed.

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Anderson Bunch Cemetery Pictures

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Sources for Anderson Bunch Cemetery

• Perry County, Tennessee Cemetery Records
• The River Counties
• David Donahue Research
• USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), source for map

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Transcription of Headstones from Anderson Bunch Cemetery, Perry Co. TN

This table is a summary of the burial information sorted in survey order when available. Click on the Burial ID to get the complete set of information available for each individual burial including headstone inscriptions, pictures and GPS coordinates when available. In some cases, comments are added with information from other sources.

The table can be sorted by clicking on the heading of a particular column. The order of sorting is reversed for each click on the heading of a particular column. Click on the "Grave ID" heading to return to the survey order when available.

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