Cemetery Cemetery

Defrees Cemetery
(District 11)

Submitted by Linda Franks


Location: Near Robertson Cemetery on Wolf Hill Road. The Cemetery is about 175 yards north of the road. There is a grove of trees with a fence around it

Ricely Defrees
b. May 1800 d. May 1862
He died just a few days after his son, George Washington Defrees died in Corinth Mississippi from wounds incurred on April 6, at the battle of Shiloh.

Cornelius D. son of Jesse Maury
3 Mar 1855 - 6 Mar 1871

Others at this cemetery would be:
James Defrees
and his wife
Sophi Ricely Defrees

James Defrees, Jr

Rebecca Defrees

F.M. Defrees
and his wife
Louisa Jane Workings.

And many others. We counted about 20 tombstones sticking in the ground.


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