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Prospect Cemetery

Prospect Cemetery is the major cemetery in northwestern Decatur County. It is indicated on the U.S.G.S. Holladay quadrangle (1987) at New Prospect Church. In recent years the cemetery also has been called New Prospect. David Donahue recorded this cemetery approximately November 1992 and checked and updated it February 17 and February 19, 2002. Margarett Alexander and Blanche Tuten recorded this cemetery on April 8, 1978. Their record appears in Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records published by the Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Parsons, Tennessee, 1984, pp. 467-485. This is referred to as UDC transcription in the notes below. Alexander and Tuten noted 20 ummarked graves. There are many more unmarked graves than this.

NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
ARNOLD, Infant 01 Jan 1911 01 Jan 1911   W.C. & Josephine Arnold
ARNOLD, Martha J. 08 Jun 1864 22 nov 1908   James & Laverne (Houston) Arnold (Not on cemetery list)
BIVINS, Erles Thomas
Pioneer Family		 22 Sep 1924 02 Jun 1990 Mary Lois Renfroe Marian Ernest and Lillian Louetta Elizabeth (Flatt) Bivins
PFC US Army World War II Purple Heart
BIVINS, Mary Lois (Renfroe) 13 May 1925   Erles Thomas Bivins William Lesley and Audie Gertrude (Howell) Renfroe
BOWMAN, Alonzo 1878 1948 Beadie Edna Riggs
m 13 Oct 1897		  
BOWMAN, Beadie Edna (Riggs) 29 Mar 1879 23 Mar 1965 Alonzo B. Bowman Samuel & Margaret (Hill) Riggs
BOWMAN, Eliza Jane (Lewis)
Pioneer Family		 23 Jul 1841 28 May 1915 James Wiley Bowman
m 23 Feb 1868		 William L. and Mary W. (Thomas) Lewis
BOWMAN, Elzie 23 Jul 1841 28 May 1915 J.W. Bowman  
BOWMAN, George H. 12 Apr 1900 08 Mar 1922   Alonzo & Beadie Edna (Riggs) Bowman
BOWMAN, James Wiley 22 Jan 1836 26 Aug 1906 Eliza Jane Lewis Simon Henry and Elizabeth Bowman
Co C 7th Calvary USA (I'm assuming - Union Army)
BOWMAN, John Arvie 18 Nov 1905 06 Oct 1989 Lessie Guinn  
BOWMAN, Lessie (Quinn) 09 Jun 1908 29 Nov 1998 John Arvie Bowman  
BOWMAN, Samuel Henry 06 Nov 1907 03 Jan 1936   Alonzo & Edna (Riggs) Bowman
JOHNSON, John McClure 1888 1960 Mallie Byrd
m 29 Dec 1909		 William Thomas and Malinda Isabella (Riggs) Johnson
JOHNSON, Mallie (Byrd) 1890 1915 John McClure Johnson  
MILLER, Velta Jane
Obituary		   26 Jan 2006 Odes Miller  
RIGGS, Margaret (Hill) 15 Sep 1838 20 Aug 1884 Samuel Riggs Dutton & Miriam (Lassiter) Hill
RIGGS, Eliza Miriam 24 Mar 1870 05 Oct 1895   Samuel W. & Margaret (Hill) Riggs
RIGGS, Margaret J. (Hill) 15 Sep 1838 20 Aug 1884 Samuel W. Riggs  
RIGGS, Samuel W. 11 Jun 1839 12 May 1902 Louisa J. Taylor
Margaret J. Hill
Mary J. Byrant		 Jesse & Melinda Riggs
SOMERSETT, Rozena
Will 		31 Dec 1814 19 Apr 1894 W.W. Somersett (m 19 Apr 1837)  
WOODS, Ruth Ann
Obituary		   12 Jul 2005 Dewey Lee Woods  

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