CHEATHAM COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  WALTON - HERALD CEMETERY
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LOCATION:  Off Highway 12 at Moseley Ferry Road on private road leading to a farm formerly 
owned by the Herald family and then the Isaac Baker Walton family (Dr. Walton started 
Walton's Chapel in Henrietta).  On private property in back yard.
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NOTES:  Names grouped together share a tombstone.  Notations in quotations are actually 
inscribed on the stone and notations in parenthesis are notes by the transcriber.
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BURTON      Eliza J., Wife of W. D. Burton 8/17/1841 - 1/18/1875

COLLINS     D. B. 3/7/1868 - 11/17/1935 "At Rest"

COLLINS     Docia Herald, Wife of D. B. Collins 10/8/1881 - 5/26/1962

COLLINS     Modine 10/17/1924 - 2/22/1942 "At Rest"

COLLINS     Willie Russell, Son of D.B. & D.M. Collins 8/2/1910 - 9/12/1910 "sleep on sweet babe and take   
      thy rest - God called thee home.  He thought it best.

E.T.B.            (This stone has no name - just these initials and date:  "January 13, 1975")

HERALD      Elisabeth 1/1826 - 3/22/1905 "Asleep in Jesus" (Name on a 4-sided stone shared with Lila Herald       
      - other two sides of stone are blank)

HERALD      John Allen 4/30/1895 - 2/18/1948 - TN S2C US Nacy WWI

HERALD      Lila 2/18/1884 - 11/16/1899 "Her spirit smiles from that bright shore and softly whispers - weep      
      no more" (Name on a 4-sided stone shared with Elisabeth Herald - other two sides of stone are   
      blank)

HERALD      Robert 10/30/1850 - 8/5/1924 "God gave He took He will restore He doeth all things well"
            Vicie 6/3/1858 (One date only) - "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God"

MAJOR       Bennie 12/9/1875 - 7/25/1897

MAJOR       Ellen - ?/10/1872 - (One date - Child's stone - Broken)

MAJOR       Joshua 9/16/1844 - 6/17/1879

REECE       Carmon - 5/6/1908 - 7/3/1973 - PVT US Army WWII (Residents in area say that Carmon Reece  
      was an old mountain man who came here from West Tennessee and lived on this farm about 15       
      years.  He asked to be buried on this farm when he died.)

SHORES      Infant son of R.A. Shores and Wife - B&D 7/24/1926 "At Rest"

W. A. N.    Initials on stone

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Transcribed November 2, 1999
Reba Brinton Harris - Gran4piano@aol.com
      WALTON - HERALD CEMETERY
      Cheatham County, Tennessee