BEDFORD COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  Waite-Friendship Cemetery
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Waite-Friendship Cemetery

This cemetery is located on Hwy. 64 about 1.5 miles from Wartrace (on the left as you 
go toward Beech Grove).  (For map, see http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/ , go to query, type 
in Waite-Friendship for feature, Tennessee for state, cemetery for type, & Bedford for 
county; then go to map)  It was discovered by accident while some bulldozing was being 
done to clear the land.  Most of the stones are broken, and there are many unmarked 
field stones which may or may not be markers.  Some headstones may be buried.  An 
unofficial report says that there are unmarked slave graves.  There are also 3 piles of 
rocks which may have been part of a stone wall or may have been grave markers 
(stones piled up to make sides, then with large flat stones laid across the top).  The 
entire cemetery is in complete disrepair, but the current owner is taking care to protect 
what is left.

Proverbs 22:1 – "A good name is to be more desired than great riches."

The inventory of this cemetery is a family and homeschool project by David & Jenny 
Calvin with their children Charity, Julian, & Lauren.  If you find some of your family in 
this cemetery, we'd love to hear from you!  (dcalvin5@ficom.net)  


SACRED
to the memory of
inestimable worth
Wm G. WOOD
a minister of the gospel
& pastor of the Baptist 
Church at Rowsville who
departed this life Febr. the
8  1815 in the 48 Year of
his age
(there is a fancy but unengraved footstone with this marker)

SACRED
In Memory of
[A]nne C Galbreath
Who Departed this
Life [the?] 16 of July
AD 1833 Aged 7 Month
28 Days

MARY JANE
STOKES
Erected by
Va[rnie?] Warren

Broken piece of stone – "Finch"

ROXANNA F
Wife of
R. L. LOVEL
Born
Sept. 11, 1856
Died
Oct 2[8?], 1882
Gone but not forgotten
(this marker is leaning against a rock, not placed.  Elsewhere in the cemetery is an 
upright footstone which reads "R.F.L.")

In 
memory of Willi-
am Waite was born
Nov. the 4th 1786
& departed this life
Aug. the 6th 1845

In 
memory of M.
H. Waite was [bo-]
rn Oct. the 21st
1799. & departed
this life Dec. the
[?]0th 1835
(this stone is in several pieces)