It is located within the restricted area of the Milan Army Ammunition Plant (arsenal) east of Milan. This burial ground is located near Milan, Tennessee, about two miles north of State Highway 104W, just south of the Rutherford Fork of Obion River. 1 mile from its juncture with Renfroe Road near the road it was vandalized several years ago. Located in the Big Buck community on the southwest side of Big Buck Road about. "Thomas" inscribed on the base of the tombstone Life is a span, a fleeting hour, how soon the vapor flies, man is a tender tran cient flower that even in blooming dies Her soul has taken its flight to mansions of glory where to mingle with angels of light and dwell in the kingdom of love Hope looks beyond the bounds of time when what we no deplore shall rise in full mortal prime and bloom to fade no more Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, a youth to fortune and fame unknown, fair science frowned not on his humble birth and melancholy marked him for her own To Christ the Lord my soul ascends, farewell to all behind my thoughts must upward tend while I must part from friends so kind We could not wish it back again but say dear babe with God remain, we'll try togain that peaceful shore where those who meet shall part no moreīorn Dec. 11, 1864 aged 52 years 6 mos & 16 dsĪ good man doth his favors show and doth to others lend, he with discretion his affairs will guide unto the endīorn Oct. 2 mile to Hebron Road, continue on this road about 1.4 miles to this cemetery sited on the east side of the road.īorn Feb. over the latter road to Hebron Church Road turn north on the latter road and drive about. To reach this burial ground drive about 1.9 miles west from the juncture of State Highway 114 and U.S. The cemetery with the most imposing tombstones in Carroll County, enclosed within a wrought iron fence (the gate long missing). McNeill had been a mercantile partner with Thomas Crawford. In January 1851 the minor children of William L. 7th 1837Ī loving husband and the generous Ĭarroll Co. 4 mile directly south at the end of a long field is another, sloping field at the bottom of which in a cedar copse in which is located the broken tombstone marking the one known grave here.īorn in Person Co., N.C. 6 mile to what is now a residential driveway, turn in walk about. To reach this burial ground near McKenzie, Tenn., turn from State Highway 22 onto Connie Allen Road and drive. Antebellum Tombstone Inscriptions Carroll County, TennesseeĪn Inventory of Antebellum Tombstone InscriptionsĬompiled by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
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