MY OLD SALEM CEMETERY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK
(Madison County, Tennessee)
Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1995

OLD SALEM CEMETERY

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Located about three and a half miles northeast of court square in Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee. Situated on the northwest side of Cotton Grove Road about .3 mile from the junction of this road with Paul Coffman Drive.

 

Center of Cemetery

MARY A/rest missing/
Dau. of Cynthia J. & Wm. G. SMITH
Born Dec. 16, 1849
Died Dec. 13, 1854
(broken stone)

In memory of
DAVID WARLICK
Born in Lincoln Cty., N.C.
Jan. 1st 1800
Died May 14th 1845

NANCY, wife of Philip WARLICK
Born in Lowden /Loudoun/ Co., Va.,
Oct. 11, 1799
Died in Carroll Co., Tenn.,
Dec. 19, 1877
Thou art gone like the . . . beloved
To the home . . . Saviour prepared thee above
footstone: N.W.

This stone marks the resting place of Little ESTLLE
Daughter of Maj. J. E. & Emma C. McDONALD
Born Aug. 2, 1860 Died Nov. 6, 1863

In memory of
JAMES A. BURRUS
Born 12th June 1816
Died 21st Jan. 1845

CYNTHIA JANE, wife of Wm. G. SMITH
Born Dec. 6, 1838 Died Dec. 19, 1866
She has gone to mansions of rest
From a re/alm?/ of sorrow and pain.
To the glorious land of the blest
Where she never can suffer again.

In memory of
PHILIP WARLICK
Born in Lincoln County, N.C.
Nov. 30th 1791
Died February 4th 1842
Aged 47 years 2 months & 5 days
footstone: P.W. located a few feet away from the foot of Warlick's grave

In memory of
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, son of Philip & Nancy WARLICK
Born June 22nd 1830 And died Oct. 5th 1839
footstone :W.F.W.

In memory of
THOMAS BURRUS
Born in Surry County, Virginia
June 23rd 1791
Died February 28th 1842
Erected by the bereaved wife Susan Burrus

 

North Side

CAMILLUS P. GREER
Born Aug. 4, 1830
Died Feb. 7, 1859

To the memory of
MARGARET I. GRIER
Departed this life January 22nd 1841
In the 43 year of her age
/A broken slab tombstone, flush with the ground; readable when cleaned/

To the memory of SUSAN H. PERSON
Who departed this life Oct. 27th 1842
in the 23 year of her age
/A slab tombstone, flush with ground/

PLEASANT; infant son of Alexander & Margaret GRIER
Born Jan. 3d 1832 Departed this life July 27th 1833
Loving & beloved Children, Your bodies sleep together in the dust. Your spirits mingle before his throne.

Just north and adjoining the grave and tombstone of Pleasant Greer is a missing tombstone, the base only of which is intact. From the 1938 inventory of tombstones at Old

 

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Salem Cemetery, a tombstone was reported here, for Lucius, son of Benj. R. and Emily E. PERSON, born and died in 1850.

ALEXANDER GREER
Born in Meclenburg Co., N.C.
Mar. 21, 1788
Died Sept. 9, 1858
Aged 70 yrs. 5 mo. & 18 days

PLEASANT THEODORE /GREER?/
Died Nov. 14, 1845
In the 8th year of his age

Miss MARY E. SMITH
Born Jan. 18, 1835 Died July 28, 1854
How blessed are the righteous when she dies, when sinks a weary soul to rest, how mildly beams the closing eyes, how gently heaves the /obliterated/ breast.

WILLIAM MARSHALL, son of B. R. & E. E. PERSON
Born June 11, 1855 Died Nov. 21, 1859
Aged 4 yrs. 5 ms. 10 ds.

CHARLES LAFAYETTE, son of B. R. & E. E. PERSON
Born Mar. 18, 1857 Died May 19, 1859
Aged 2 ys. 2 ms. 1 d’y.

CHARLES LAFAYETTE GREER
Born July 30, 1834
Died Oct. 25, 1857
Aged 23 yrs. 2 ms. & 25 days
"verse" obliterated, covered, at the base

JAMES T. GREER
Born May 5, 1822 Died Feb. 14, 1859

NANCY, third wife of Adam HUNTSMAN
Born A.D. 1789
Died Dec. 4, 1858
Aged 69 years
footstone: N. H.

In memory of
SARAH W., wife of Adam HUNTSMAN
Died Oct. 1825 Aged 33 years
footstone: S. W. H.

ADAM HUNTSMAN (Masonic emblem)
Born Feb. 11, 1786
Died Aug. 23, 1849
Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy
footstone: A. H.

In memory of ELIZABETH, wife of Adam HUNTSMAN
Died 7th Jan. 1843 Aged 33 years
footstone: E. H.

JORDAN C. HOLT
Born in Bedford Co., Tenn.
Dec. 25, 1822
Died in Madison Co., Tenn.
Oct. 8, 1851

 

South Side

In memory of CATHERINE REVELS
Consort of Timothy P. JONES
Daughter of Richard & Sarah Fenner
Born in Franklin County, N.C.
January 6th 1821
Died April 17th 1843
A Member of the Episcopal Church
/A modified box vault; top slab with inscription shattered but readable with careful examination/

Sacred to the memory of ATLAS JONES
Born January 18th 1782
Died November 17th 1841
A native of Massachusetts

A small, rectangular tombstone, with a cross inscribed at its top, crudely inscribed:
I. E. SOWELL, no dates
/Best reading that this compiler could make of this inscription/

 

West Side

In memory of /JA/MES H. ROGERS
Who was born Feb. 16th 1778
Died /Sept/ember 10th 1842
/A fallen, broken tombstone/

ELIZABETH WORD
Born A. D. 1782
Died April 6, 1860 Aged 78 years

 

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Henderson Lot, enclosed within a concrete border, north to south:
BROTHER, BROTHER, FATHER, MOTHER
/individual grave markers/

M. E. HENDERSON July 19, 1844-Oct. 18, 1920

North of, adjoining the T. H. G. and S. R. Garrett tombstone is a large slab of concrete, divided into two sections, uninscribed, possibly the grave of T. H. Garrett

North of, adjoining the grave and tombstone of Martha J. GARRETT is a brick, modified box vault, the slab of which is laying on the ground just north of it, reading:
Here lies 2 infants of Thomas H. & M. J. GARRETT
Suffer little Children to come unto me and forbid them not

GABRIEL ANDERSON
Born in Newbury /Newberry/ District, S.C. Feb. 15, 1774
Died Jan. 19, 1850
J. White, Memphis /stone-cutter/

MARTHA D., wife of W. B. RAINEY
Born May 10, 1814
Died Mar. 29, 1840

MARY A. BROWN
Dau. of Robert & Susan L. Brown
Born Sept. 8, 1836 Died Mar. 13, 1839
It was an angel that visited the green earth and took a flower away

/The Brown infants’ tombstones have inscribed at their tops a small, singing bird in flight. !

ELMINA L. BETTS
Born Dec. 9, 1832 Died Oct. 5, A.D. 1835
Aged 2 y. 9 m. & 26 d.

footstone: E.L.B.

SELDON BETTS
Born Feb. 9, 1796
Died Aug. 25, 1849
Aged 53 y. 6 m. & 16 d.
footstone: S.B.

Garrett Lot, enclosed within a concrete border, south to north:

A double tombstone:
THOMAS H. GARRETT,
1827-1900
and his wife, SUSAN R. GARRETT
1835-1903
appropriate footstones:
Father, Mother
Emblem with inscription: In Hoc Signo Vinces

Sacred to the memory of MARTHA J.,
Consort of T. H. GARRETT & Dau. of Robert & Susan L. Brown
Born Feb. 12, 1831 Died June 9, 1858
Aged 27 years 3 mos. & 16 ds.
Farewell vain world I am going home
my Saviour smiles and bids me come
/A broken, modified box vault; top slab shattered but readable with careful examination/

C. V. LOCKARD (weeping willow emblem)
Born July 1, 1852
Died Nov. 28, 1852

MIRAM ANDERSON
Born in Newbury /Newberry/ District, S.C.
Jan. 7, 1779 Died Apr. 19, 1842

JAMES CALDWELL
Born Feb. 25, 1770
Died March 10, 1841
J. White /stone-cutter/

INFANT DAU. of Robert & Susan L. BROWN
Born dead Oct. 13, 1841
Budded on earth to bloom in heaven

GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN, son of Robert & Susan L. Brown
Born May 14, 1848 Died July 7, 1848
Sleep on, sweet babe, and take thy rest.
God called thee home. He thought it best

JOHN C. BETTS
Born Jan. 15, 1830 Died May 13, A.D. 1835
Aged 5 y. 3 m. & 28 d.

MARGRETH PAVATT
Died Aug. 27, 1841 Aged 57 years

 

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East Side

ERNESTINE ALLEN, 1908-1968

Infant Dau. of Roy & Inez SMITH
Mar. 16, 1938

JOHNNIE F. BAXTER, no dates

Infant Dau. of Roy & Inez SMITH
Feb. 28, 1940

 

There are many unmarked graves in the Old Salem Cemetery, indicating that many persons rest in truly silent graves here.

 

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