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Altom Cemetery
Located off Highway 114 from Decaturville, on a farm belonging to Jehu Montgomery. A very difficult place to find, in the Bath Springs community. A 15 minute walk from the road, never used — condition poor.
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
ALTOM, Eliza 14 Aug 1811 05 Apr 1901 J.H. Altom  
ALTOM, J.H. 23 Apr 1836 29 Apr 1905 Eliza  
MAGERS, Minnie 14 Aug 1886 25 Aug 1889   A.O. & L.E. Magers

CEMETERIES OF DECATUR CO TN

Apostolic Cemetery
Behind Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ in Parsons, Tennessee
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
ALEXANDER, Stacye (Reeves) 12 May 1970      
ALEXANDER, Mark Anthony 05 Mar 1965 23 Sep 2000    
Barnett Cemetery
Located 2½ miles SW of Parsons, 412 west, left on Wilkinstown Rd, 3/4 mile turn right on Leeburn Harris Rd., left in Barnett Cem. Lane. Drive to the house at the end of the lane. Cemetery is about 100 yards behind the house to the northwest. The cemetery is fenced and in 2004 was overgrown. The unidentified "Eliza" is probably Eliza Houston 1830-1849 daughter of John Lucky Houston & Virginia Graham also thought to be buried here.
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
??, Eliza   &nsbsp;   J.L. & ? ?
BARNETT, J.C. 08 Sep 1843 31 May 1868   Lt. Co F 2nd US Inf
BARNETT, J.P.   09 Feb 18??    
BARNETT, John F. 25y 3m 3d 28 Sep 1864   Lt. Co F 2nd US Inf
Fell in Battle of Centerville TN
HOUSTON, Jane 05 Mar 1820 18 Apr 1878 J.P.Houston  
HOUSTON, S.L./G.L. May 1850 Feb 1892    
JENNINGS, Laverna A. 28y 4m 22d 05 Dec 1869 J.W. Jennings  
MYRACLE, Erney Laverna 07 Nov 1884 02 Aug 1886   M.C. & S.A. Myracle
Bath Springs Baptist Cemetery
Bath Springs Baptist Church established a cemetery in the mid 1990s. Located not at the church but instead is about 2 miles west on the east side of Red House Cemetery. The first marker was placed in the cemetery about 1996. In 2003 there had been only two burials but still only one marker. Note that unmarked burials from Red House Cemetery may extend under the fence and into the NW corner of Bath Springs Baptist Church Cemetery.
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
BOROUGHS, Charlie 24 Apr 1992 25 Nov 2000   US Army WWII
BOROUGHS, Josephine 11 Dec 1923 08 Sep 2002    
Battleground Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
CARTER, Robert Lee 04 Oct 1965 22 May 2002    
Dixon Cemetery
On Old Perryville Road about 4 miles from Decaturville
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
DIXON, Infant       W. & Dela Dixon
DIXON, Wallace Yateman 01 Jan 1790 04 May 1874 Eliza R. Brady Benjamin Wallace
DIXON, Wallace Yateman
Obituary		 22 Dec 1835 30 Nov 1894 Elizabeth J. Finch
Lucretia Ellen Finch		 Wallace & Eliza (Brady) Dixon
Civil War Confederate Soldier
Bio says he was born 1838
Franks Chapel Cemetery
Northwest side of the Jeanette-Holladay road in northwestern Decatur County
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
BAWCUM, Lloyd Ray 28 Feb 1927 10 Apr 1995    
BAWCUM, Wilbur J. 15 Jul 1928      
STILL, Ronnie 1935 2002    
Hanes Cemetery
Hanes Cemetery is located on the west side of Hayes Road in northeastern Decatur County. If driving north on Hayes Road from Bohannon's Landing Road, follow Hayes Road until it crosses Ricketts Creek, then curves and climbs a hill. Hanes Cemetery is at the top of the hill. On first impression this is a black cemetery. There are about 50 graves scattered throughout the woods. Nearly all are unmarked and many are sunken, some quite deeply. However, the graves which do have markers are mostly nineteenth century death dates, so these people are unlikely to be black. Two possibilities are could be explored. First, the cemetery may have originated as a plantation cemetery (if G. W. Hanes was a slave owner). Second, area black families may have begun using the cemetery after it was abandoned by area white families. Most burials at this cemetery may be early twentieth century black burials. As a side note, during the 1870 there was an effort to organize a Hanes County out of northern Decatur Co., southern Benton County, northeastern Henderson County, and southeastern Carroll County. These may be the only Hanes (not counting Haynes or Haines) buried within this geographic area.
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
BOHANON, Virginia Bell 19 Dec 1871 30 Jun 1877   J.H. & Mary Bohannon
CURRY, Mary E. 07 Sep 1854 01 Oct 1883   G.W> Curry
HANES, Elizabeth 81y 9m 7d 29 Apr 1910 G. W. Hanes  
HANES, G.W. 71y 10d 30 Apr 1893 Elizabeth  
PITTS, Rosa (Aner) 03 Oct 1856 18 Nov 1876 L.W. Pitts  
WILLIAMS, John S. 22 Mar 1865 16 Aug 1872   D.E. & L.A. Williams
HANES, Mary E. 02 Jun 1871 05 Aug 1874   D.E> & L.A. Williams
Johnston Cemetery
A very old cemetery on Batty Road between Pete Tucker Road and Keeton Cemetery Road
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
JOHNSTON, S.F. 26 Jul 1834 15 Jul 1926 W.D. Johnston  
JOHNSTON, W.D. 22 Mar 1820 29 Feb 1865 S.F. Johnson  

Lain Cemetery
Located in the area known as the Ponderosa, about 20 miles North of Parsons. Pass the store and boat dock, south on the gravel road for a few yards — oak tree at edge of road on left side of road to the right of oak tree is a wagon road. Walk to left of tree halfway up hill there are 3 rocks — no evidence of unmarked graves — hard to find. We could not see rocks from road. Perhaps if we had known exactly where they were we could have seen them. This cemetery was indexed by Blanche Tuten and Margarett Alexander on December 22, 1977.
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
LAIN, M.J. 20 Jan 1877 21 Nov 1898   Dau. of T.F. & E.F. Lain
LAIN, Susie M. 30 Oct 1896 20 Apr 1897   Dau. of T.F. & Mollie Lain
LAIN, Thomas F. 20 Jun 1848 27 Dec 1897   Masonic Emblem
Lowry/Houston
The Lowry Cemetery in Decaturville was destroyed, probably in December 2003. This cemetery was in the woods in the southeast quadrant of the intersection of the Decaturville bypass (TN 69) and Middleburg Road (TN 202), behind what was once an antique shop. The cemetery dated to the 1820-1840 period. In 1992 it was possible to recognize about a dozen fieldstones and about an equal number of sunken spots within the Lowry cemetery, so there were about 2 dozen burials there. Given the number of burials, it is likely that this was the local community cemetery before Decaturville Cemetery opened in 1845. Lowry Cemetery probably had already been abandoned when the separate Young Family Cemetery (about 30 yards to the east) was established in 1869.
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
LOWRY, Jemima (Rushing) 33y 11m 26d 10 Sep 1840 Robert Lowry David & Nancy (Deason) Rushing

Martin Family Cemetery
A recently created cemetery, adjoining to the south, but separately fenced from the Brasher Cemetery
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
MARTIN, J. Frank 12 Mar 1930 29 Nov 2000 Melba G.  
MARTIN, Melba G. 25 Oct 1928 08 Feb 1999 J. Frank Martin  

Still Cemetery McMurry Rd
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
LEWIS, Edna M. 14 Aug 1875 28 Jun 1903 T.M. Lewis  
LEWIS, Edna Mary 1y 27d 05 Jun 1905   T.M. & Edna Lewis
STILL, Dr. Andrew   1835    
STILL, George W. 10 Jul 1821 18 Feb 1904    

Taylor Cemetery
On a farm road which runs east from Old Decaturville Road less than a half mile south of Mt. Tabor Church.
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
TAYLOR, T.L.P.       Co E 6th TN Cav.

Walker / Dodson Cemetery
In a yard on Storms Lake
NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
DODSON, Lora 28 Jun 1860 31 Jul 1951 W.B. Dodson  
DODSON, W.B. 18 Sep 1853 23 May 1923 Lora  
HENDRIX, Augustus J. 3y 8m 15d 1857    
HENDRIX, H.V.M. 37 10 Oct 1864   Died & buried at Cherokee Station AL
HENDRIX, Sarah W. 65y 04 Jul 1892    
HENDRIX, Leroy R. 1860 1860    
WALKER, Edward E.. 1883 1960 Sallie M.  
WALKER, Sallie M 1889 1969 Edward E. Walker  

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