MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE
INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK PART V
by Jonathan K. T. Smith
1994CARTMELL DIARIES VOLS. 31-33
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VOLUME 31, January-December, 1913; January-March 1914
p 3. January 3, 1913
Notice the death of an old lady, among the oldest in Jackson, both as to age and residence. The widow of Tom Beveridge. 84 years of age. no children. The father & mother of Tom B. were living in Jackson at my furtherest recolection /sic/. in the thirties. He was an eccentric character. He and his wife have been dead many years. were both sick at the same time. She died first. He was told she was dead. He got out of his bed walked into the room where she died, looked at her, came back, got in his bed and told them not to bury her for a day or two. He was going with her. in 2 or 3 days they were buried in same grave. I saw some mason building 2 small vaults. large enough to hold 2 coffins. They put the coffins in & arched them over with brick. I rember /sic/ when Parson Tom Taylor a Methodist preacher living about 1/2 m of where I am now living (one mile east of the courthouse on Chester Street extended), awhile before he died Tom Beverage /sic/ sent a long message by Tom Taylor to his father and mother.
AMANDA, WIFE OF J. T. BEVERIDGE, October 21, 1830-January 1, 1913
p 24. February 23, 1913
Mat Meriwether died last night & will be buried tomorrow ev'g. 3 o'clock at Riverside Cem. He had a stroke of paralisis /sic/ several years ago…. belonged to co. L, 6th Tenn. Confederate infantry. last week Jim Hughes another Confederate of same regiment died suddenly. was sexton at Riverside Cem. a son of James Hughes, a pioneer settler of Jackson.
M. D. MERIWETHER, 1835-1913
Hughes appears to be buried in a now-unmarked grave.
p 28. March 4, 1913
Ada /Cartmell/ and I attended the funeral at Epis'l ch. Billie Harris (W. N.) died Sunday morn /March 2/. Heart trouble. an old bachelor. 70 years old. born & raised in Jackson. was with I. C. Railroad before the war. during the war was detailed to Rway service. was a grandson of Jude /Judge/ Wm. B. Turley, one among the most eminent judges that that /sic/ ever occupied a seat on the Suppreme /sic/ Court of Tenn. rather a peculiar sort of a man. for several years has lived to himself in Hatchie River bottom. Hunted & fished & trapped. Popular with everyone.
W. N. HARRIS, 1843-1913
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p 30. March 11, 1913
Ike Tomlinson who had a stroke about the same time is living but little hopes for him. He and his wife went to Hot Springs a year or two ago….has no children. his wife was or is sister of the late James Pope & of Thad & Jo Pope living in Jackson now.
IKE C. TOMLINSON, October 6, 1860-March 22, 1913
p 33. March 20, 1913
Saw in Jackson in this morning /paper?/ the death of Bob Prewett. 85 years old. born in Jackson. Moses Prewett his father settled in a cabin on what is now known as Haskell's hill. I have known the family since my earliest recolection /sic/.
R. E. PREWITT, 1828-1913
p 95. September 13, 1913
Hu phoned out about 1:30 o'clock that Martin /Cartmell/ had been run over by an automobile in the street…. He died. Sad to think his passing away was to be in this way…. September 14. Martin was buried this evening at 4 o'clock.
J. M. CARTMELL, April 12, 1839-September 13, 1913
p 113. October 17, 1913
Fipps Miller was buried in Jackson this morning. lived in Memphis. Son of John S. Miller. 3 of the Miller family -daughters. no male Miller. John S. married 2 times. a Yankee woman caused a bad split in the family. The children were right &c.
W. P. MILLER, September 24, 1842-October 14, 1913
p 133. December 23, 1913
Saw in todays paper the death of U. R. Heavner. a useful man. has been a contractor for many years (25 or 30 years). has put up some of the finest houses in Jackson, among them are YMCA, the Babtist /sic/ church….
U. R. HEAVNER. Born in North Carolina, March 23, 1847-December 22, 1913
p 143. January 5, 1914
Ed Curtis was buried this evening. died yesterday…. He was one of the old men of 61 /1861/. May have been born about beginning of it. His mother was an adopted daughter of Stephen Sypret /Sypert/. He moved to Bolivar in 1836. kept tavern there. moved back to Jackson in about 4 years. He had no children but brought a girl child whose parents had died leaving I think 2 children -boy and girl. Brimm was their name. lf not mistaken the boy Jim Brimm was a Confederate soldier in 6th Tenn. Infantry. the girl grew up & married ___Curtiss. Ed was a son of the girl. She was a good woman. He was in the pluming /sic/ business. has done & was doing well. He leaves a grown son & other children. Stephen Sypret /Sypert/ died during the war. Mrs. Sypret /Sypert/ lived 'till about 1886.
Curtiss, as the name was spelled, may be buried in a now-unmarked grave in the Sypert-Curtiss lot.
p 156. February 11, 1914
Saw in todays paper that old Mrs. Wilde died yesterday ev sitting in her chair. German family. residents here for maybe 50 or more years. clever & good old woman.
MARY WILDE, 1843-1914
p 156. February 14, 1914
Dr. Moses S. Neely died 11 a. m. 13th. 80 yrs. of age. born near Denmark this co. the family were from N. Carolina. He read medicine & practiced a few yrs.
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I think he went out as an assistant in the surgeon department. was a prisoner I think on Johnson's Island. after the war came to Jackson & engaged in the drug business. Neely & Pybus. was married twice, first wife a daughter of Dr. Newborn. lived but a short time. left a child girl Minnie now living in Jackson. married (Murdock). She has 2 children, boy & girl. boy married has one child. girl about grown (Mildred). He married a widow living in Jackson. Louise (McClanahan) James, with one child. She is dead 20 or more years ago. Dr. Neely had a brother Langdon, a Presbyterian minister.
DR. M. S. NEELY, 1833-1914
p 162. March 2, 1914
Also death of Ed Moffitt. He belongs to an old family of Henderson Co. Some of them have lived in Jackson many years.
Moffitt is buried in a now-unmarked grave in the Ed Moffitt lot.
p 168. March 19, 1914
Mrs. McClaren died in Memphis yesterday. lived in Jackson. born there. daughter /of/ W. K. Walsh. leaves a husband, son & 2 daughters. Old Mrs. Harley died last Sunday /March 15/ a daughter of John H. Day deceased. married twice. Bob Ford first time. She was 82 or about.
ANNETTE WALSH, WIFE OF ROBERT S. McCLAREN, 1867-1914
If Mrs. Harley is buried in Riverside Cemetery, she appears to be buried in a now-unmarked grave.
VOLUME 32, April-December 1914
p 18. May 14, 1914
Dr. Bailey Nelson was buried in Jackson yesterday after 4 weeks since injured. p 6. April 15. Heard Bailey Nelson was badly hurt by a train come in collision with his auto. lives in Memphis. Son of Rebecca (Hurt) Nelson. a Dr. p 6. April 16. From all accounts no hope for Bailey Nelson's recovering.
DR. R. B. NELSON, 1882-1914
p 44. July 4, 1914
Noticed in paper that Geo. Bledsoe died a day ago. maybe 70 years old. born in Jackson. Son of Marshall Bledsoe. a Confederate soldier.
GEORGE BLEDSOE, 1845-1914
p 48. July 13, 1914
Mrs. Day was buried in Riverside Cemetery this evening about 4 o'clock. died in St. Louis yesterday morning. had been operated on, what for I did not learn. a good woman & will be missed. born and raised in or near Denmark this county. came to Jackson 25 or 30 years ago & kept the Armour House several years. Then bought what is the Southern Hotel. She added to it and /it/ is the largest hotel ever was in the place /Jackson/. Some 90 rooms. She was a business woman an /sic/ was a successful one…. She was born in North Carolina some 50 yrs. ago. cancer was the trouble &c.
MARTHA ELIZABETH BURGESS DAY, April 10, 1855-July 12, 1914
p 58. July 30, 1914
Hewitt Gates was buried this evening. died suddenly. neuralgia of the heart I heard. His mother was Cary Peguese /sic/. had a spell of fever when about 16. from of it /sic/lost his sight. He was about 35 years of age. except for the loss of his sight would have made a useful man.
HEWITT P. GATES, 1875-1914
pp 60-61. August 3, 1914
Saw in paper today where Earnest Bullock had gone to Tate's spring some 10 days ago, hoping to be benefitted by the water. his condition was such he
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was removed to a sanitarium last Friday. no hopes for his recovery…. had been chancellor for a no. of years and probably overworked. He was a fine lawyer, talented. his voice was not the best. a nephew of John L. Brown and son of Micajah Bullock who practiced law in Jackson many years ago. Earnest Bullock I regarded the ablest lawyer at the Jackson Bar, since Howel E. Jackson was sent to the Legislature /and/at the same session of the Legislature he was elected to the U.S. Senate & soon appointed a Circuit Judge by Harrison & soon appointed to the Suppreme /sic/ Court of the U. States…. p 66. August 9. Heard this evening that Judge Earnest Bullock died last night at a sanitarium at Newport East Tennessee…. p 67. August 10. E. L. Bullock was buried at 4 p.m. at Riverside Cemetery….
Bullock is possibly buried in a now-unmarked grave in the John L. Brown lot #241
p 91. October 15, 1914
Jesse Harrison 2d son of Mr. Harrison who was rector of Episcopal church in Jackson for many years before & during the /war/ was buried in Jackson today….
There are no tombstones marking graves on the John A. Harrison family lot.
p 114. December 17, 1914
Some one telephoned to Ada /Cartmell/ that Jim Still was buried today in Jackson. I think I was in Jackson last Thursday, met him on the street & talked to /him/ some time. the picture of health. had a stroke of paralysis a few days after & died a few days after.
JAMES F. STILL, 1856-1914
VOLUME 33, January-September 1915
p 18. January 11, 1915
Pet Malone died last night. His father moved to Jackson about 1855 from Holly Springs. 3 I think of his boys are living. Ben, George &c. and one daughter Mrs. Hefly /Hefley/. Pet I guess was about 60 years old. was with the Anderson Hardware Store many years. He owned the Adam Huntsman place. Adam lived and died about 1857. a splendid brick house. The Norvels /Norvells/ built /it/. where ever you see a brick building built by them it is the best.
Pet Malone is buried in a now-unmarked grave in the B. J. Malone lot.
p 33. February 9, 1915
heard tonight that Dr. Nall had died maybe yesterday & his remains would be sent here tomorrow. His wife was buried at Riverside in Jackson. died while /husband/ was pastor of Presbyterian church in Jackson many years ago. up to about 1890. He went from here to New Orleans. has been living with a daughter who married Bright. at Chattanooga for 6 or 8 years. Dr. James Hogue Nall was a good man and a good preacher, a gentleman.
REV. JAMES HOGE NALL, 1837-1915
p 39. March 2, 1915
The St. L. N & C Railway train has just passed. Hu Anderson's remains on the train. will be buried tomorrow evening from Episcopal church. The Legislature after a month's recess had met yesterday. He died last night. I think he had kidney trouble…. He was Speaker of the Senate (Tenn.). I guess 63 or 4 years of age. leaves a wife 3 /rd/ wife. Bond Anderson oldest son. his mother oldest daughter of John D. Bond decd. and my sister Mary now living with her daughter Anna Snider. will be 85 next birthday. She /Anderson's wife/when Bond was a few days old….
HUGH C. ANDERSON, 1851-1915
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p 74. June 17, 1915
Notice in todays paper Mrs. Dr. Jones death.
BELL GATES, WIFE OF J. T. JONES, 1852-1915
p 79. June 21, 1915
Mattie Fenner died this morning. a daughter of Dr. John S. Fenner and Geanie Day, both deceased. both somewhat peculiar. So that Mattie could not help being rather peculiar. She married when a girl about 18. a man named Skene. They separated in a few days & maybe never met again. I have heard it said she married to change her name. the paper does not give her age but she was between 48 & 51. She had talent. Studied art in New York at Coopers Institute & in Paris, France. Her work in oil painting, water colors & pen & ink sketches show that had she elected to devote herself to it she might have attained brilliant success. She published a small volume of poems and stories &c.
The Fenners were pioneer settlers of this county. The oldest one settled at what was then called Madisonville (now Cotton Grove). He raised a no. of boys & girls. all were doctors except 2 as I remember it. John M. Fenner was a farmer. one a young man while at school may have been attending medical lecture was killed by a fellow student. Dr. Erasmus Fenner practiced for many years in N. Orleans. was there during maybe several yellow fever epidemics….He had a son who was a Judge of the Suppreme /sic/ Court of Louisiana. Dr. Robert Fenner remained in Jackson & practiced medicine during his life and died here after the close of the war maybe 4 or 5 years after the war closed. He was the brainy one of the family. He married a daughter of Atlas Jones, a pioneer of this Madison Co. Tenn. a sister of Col. T. P. Jones who went to Texas when quite young to help Texas in her revolution. was in the Mexican war. command 6th Tenn. Infantry in the battle of Shiloh….
MARTHA DAY, DAU. OF JOHN S. & VIRGINIA FENNER, 1867-1915
p 93. July 14, 1915
Our old sister Mary Elizabeth Bond was buried this evening at 5 o'clock on the lot where her husband John D. Bond was buried….
MARY CARTMELL, WIFE OF JOHN D. BOND, 1830-1915
p 101. September 7, 1915
Bil /sic/ Alexander died rather suddenly yesterday morning at the farm of his son in law Tom Hartmus near Claybrook....
W. F. ALEXANDER, 1845-1915
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