CHEATHAM COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  JACKSON-HARRIS CEMETERY
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DIRECTIONS:  From Old Clarksville Pike, Turn on Thomasville Road going toward Highway 41A.  
There is a Mallory's Cemetery on the right, go past this cemetery to some houses on the right.  
This cemetery is located behind a field behind these houses.  There is no road, only a 4-wheel 
path through the field to the cemetery.  Cemetery is unkept, grown up and behind a barb-wire 
fence.  It is approximately in a tree row.
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NOTES:  Names listed together share the same tombstone.  Notations in quotations are actually 
inscribed on the stones; notations in parenthesis are notes from the transcriber.
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BRIGHT   Rebecca 6/27/1840 - 3/8/1913

HARRIS   Infant son of W.R. and M.E. Harris - B&D 1/22/1901

HARRIS   Mary, daughter of W.R. and L.M. Harris 7/1/1897 - 6/16/1898 "Gone to be an angel"

HARRIS   Newsom 10/6/1845 - 4/8/1900 "Oh twill be so sweet to meet on that blessed shore; all sorrow past, all 
         pain forever ore."
         Mary E. 10/22/1847 - 4/30/1930 "She was a kind and affectionate wife, a fond mother, and a 
         friend to all."

HARRIS   Newsom - Died 6/17/1869 "Age 90 yrs"
         Sarah J. - Died 6/11/1893 - "age 77 yrs, 6 Mos, 29 Days)
         (This stone is broken off and lying on ground)

HARRIS   "In Memory of Willis Harris
         "Mother" "In memory of Betsy Harris"
         "In Memory of John Willson"
         (This is a four-sided stone and these are inscribed on each of three sides - 4th side is blank)

HYDE     G. W. 3/16/1841 - (no death date)

HYDE     L. K., Wife of G. W. Hyde 4/1/1844 - 6/28/1915

JACKSON  Esther W., Wife of W.J. Jackson  8/1820 - 3/9/1915 

JACKSON  Martha W. Jackson 2/29/1852 - 5/18/1868 (stone lying on ground)

JACKSON  Mary W. S.  5/14/1842 - 10/10/1869 (stone broken off and fallen to ground)

JACKSON  Nancy J. 3/14/1845 - 1/13/1869 (stone broken off and laying on ground)

JACKSON  Whit Mell J. 9/24/1814 - 10/10/1865 (or 1868) (W. J. Jackson)

SHEARRON Lizzie M., Wife of J. H. Shearron 10/17/1877 - 9/5/1914

NOTE:  There are a lot of unmarked graves indicated only with stones or rocks

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Transcribed October 31, 1999