CHEATHAM COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  EVANS CEMETERY
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DIRECTIONS:  From Highway 12, turn on to Neptune Road - approximately 3 miles to New Hope 
Church Road.  Go down New Hope Church Road about .3 of a mile and pass the New Hope Church 
(old church on left and new church on right).  Road will curve to the left at this point, 
but stay straight at the curve and drive into a dirt road.  Go about .4 of a mile down this 
road; there is a sign saying evans Cemetery with an arrow.  Follow this road to the end 
which will be at a residence...cemetery is to the right in a field beside this residence.  
It is fenced and well maintained.

There is a marker at this cemetery that says the Evans Cemetery was established in 1866.
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NOTE:  Names grouped together share a tombstone.  Notations in quotations are actually 
inscribed on the stone; notations in parenthesis are notes by the transcriber.
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EVANS       D. A. 1838 - 1916

EVANS       Elizabeth, wife of D. A. Evans 9/18/1846 - 12/19/1891

EVANS       Elizabeth Bearden 7/25/1804 - 6/18/1866, Wife of David Augustus, Sr. 6/24/1800 - 12/23/1838

EVANS       James V. 7/11/1877 - 7/11/1952 - F1 US Navy Spanish American War
            Minnie Jane Denney 8/1931 - (no date)

EVANS       John Thomas 4/17/1895 - 10/5/1898 (shares stone with Luther Esstil Evans with notation:  "Sons  
            of John D. Evans and Nancy J. Moseley"

EVANS       Luther Esstil  3/15/1899 - 8/4/1899 (shares stone with John Thomas Evans with notation:  "Sons  
            of John D. Evans and nancy J. Moseley"

EVANS       Nannie A., Wife of W. F. Evans 12/30/1877 - 1/15/1905 "As a wife devoted, as a mother           
      affectionate, as friend kind and true."

EVANS       W. F. 10/27/1873 - 5/18/1928 "As a husband devoted, as a father affectionate, as a friend ever  
            kind and true."

WILLIAMS    Elizabeth V. 7/16/1919 - 11/8/1934

WILLIAMS    James Dempsey 8/1/1898 - 3/2/1974
            Dora B. Evans 5/16/1898 - 2/4/1981 "In loving memory"

WILLIAMS    J. Billie 11/12/1928 - 6/29/1939

WILLIAMS    Infant 1922

WILLIAMS    Missy 1918 - 1981

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Transcribed November 1, 1999
Betty Cannon and Reba Brinton Harris (Gran4piano@yahoo.com)