* ALTOM * CEMETERY Natchez Trace

This cemetrey is in the Natchez Trace area of Henderson County about 1 1/2 Miles South of the Natchez Trace store near Brown's Creek Lake. The photos above were taken when I visited this cemetery on November 10, 2002. David Donahue had also found this cemetery in 1999 at which time it was indicated there were 66 Concrete Block in place. I have read that the Maness school house was built directly over several graves in the 1920's and I have to wonder what those in charge were thinking, if this is true! Commentary: Most likely this cemetery never had carved markers. It probably is very old and contained only fieldstones. In appearance in probably was something like the Gibson Cemetery six miles east in Decatur County, one of the few cemeteries which retains an early-mid 19th century appearance. For a school to have been built over several graves in the Altom Cemetery would seem to indicate that the cemetery had been out of use for many years by the 1920s.     --- David Donahue, January 1999 See more information -- Lewis-Altom Cemetery