DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  BESS CEMETERY  
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DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY PROJECT is a cooperative effort of 
many groups including the Metro Archives, Colonial Dames (NSCDA-TN), 
Nashville Room of the Public Library, Metro Planning and Historical 
Commissions, Historic Nashville, Inc., the State Archaeologist, local 
historians and citizens. Initiated by the Nashville Town Committee of 
the Colonial Dames during the fall of 1999, with the training of 
volunteers to survey and record tombstones and with a grant to the 
Metro Archives for a staff person to enter the inscriptions on a 
computer database. The project has involved over 90 volunteers. 


BESS CEMETERY  
AN-14:  NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN, PETTUS ROAD
12 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS:

BESS  Born: 1880   Died: 1930  
Front Inscription: FATHER/ARTHUR BESS/1880-1930/REST, FATHER, REST IN/QUIET SLEEP, WHILE/FRIENDS IN SORROW/O'ER THEE WEEP.

BESS  Born: 1907   Died: 1933  
Front Inscription: SON/CHAS. G. BESS/1907-1933/SLEEP ON, SWEET BROTHER,/AND TAKE THY REST,/GOD CALLED THEE HOME,/HE THOUGHT IT BEST

BESS  Born: 1887   Died: 1921  
Front Inscription: JOHN RILEY/BESS/1887-1921

BESS  Born: 1886   Died: 1973  
Front Inscription: MARTHA PEAY/BESS/1886-1973

BESS  Born: 1913   Died: 1931  
Front Inscription: FRANK JONES/BESS/1913-1931

BESS  Born: 1915   Died: 1948  
Front Inscription: JAMES HINTON/BESS/1915-1948

BESS  Born: 1917   Died: 1962  
Front Inscription: THOMAS M./BESS/1917-1962

BESS  Born: 1911   Died: 1914  
Front Inscription: SADIE PEARL/BESS/1911-1914
Footstone: YES  Footstone inscription: S.P.B

BESS & WOOD & BAKER  
Front Inscription: A.J. BESS/DIED 1897/AGE 32 YEARS/HARRETT/MITCHELL/BESS/BORN/APR. 19, 1823/DIED/JAN 12, 1910
Side 2 inscription: ANNIE E./BESS/BORN/JULY 30, 1884/DIED/AUG.9, 1887/GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Side 3 inscription: SUSAN ADELAEDE/WOOD/DIED 1908/AGE 57 YEARS/CHARLEY A. BAKER/BORN/OCTOBER 25, 1911/DIED/ DEC 20, 1912

UNKNOWN  Born:    Died:   
Front Inscription: S.A.W.

UNKNOWN  Born:    Died:   
Front Inscription: G.A.B.

UNKOWN  Born:    Died:    
Front Inscription: A.J.B.