DECATUR COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Rushing Creek Cemetery

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RUSHING CREEK CEMETERY

(Old Baptist)

Decatur County, Tennessee



            Rushing Creek Cemetery is a small cemetery next to 

Rushing Creek Primitive Baptist Church about 2 miles south of 

Decaturville. The cemetery is unnamed on the U.S.G.S. Scotts 

Hill quadrangle (1986). If driving south on highway 69, turn 

right at Old Baptist Road and you will be at the church and 

cemetery. There are 10 graves marked with fieldstones 

and other unmarked and unidentified graves. David Donahue 

recorded this cemetery May 12, 1991; update it May 1995; and 

checked and updated it October 25, 2003.



            The cemetery was recorded earlier by Bobbie 

Bartholomew and Ritchie Bartholomew on March 10, 1976. Their 

record appears in Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records 

by the Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters 

of the Confederacy, Parsons, Tennessee, 1984, pp. 504-507. 

Reference is made to this earlier record where appropriate.







Arrington, Tennie E, 1884-1961

Arrington, John F., 1859-1927



Ashcraft, Samuel, 1801-Feb. 17, 1883



Averett, Peggy M., June 6, 1935-Mar. 28, 1995, "Mother" 

footstone



Box, Lorene M., Mar. 20, 1923-____

Box, Junior, Oct. 1, 1927-June 29, 1988



Brock, Allie, 1898-1982



Brock, Mae ____, no dates, temporary marker read in 1991 and 

1995, Brewer Wylie Funeral Home; the temporary marker was at 

what in 2003 is a shallow depression 4 feet south of the 

marker for Allie Brock



Burdette, Teddy D., Sept. 6, 1963-Apr. 7, 1984



Churchwell, Allie, Aug. 6, 1892-June 7, 1978

Churchwell, Charlie, Jan. 22, 1883-Oct. 29, 1970



Churchwell, Louise [see Goodman, Louise Churchwell]



Churchwell, Mary R., 1871-1945/John W., 1857-1925



Coleman, Anna [see Massey, Anna Coleman]



Elliott, Ernest E., June 26, 1935-July 2, 1936 [replacement]



Elliott, Infant, 1935-1935, "Daughter of Arlie & Flossye 

Elliott"



Elliott, Infants, Jan. 8, 1921, "Infant twin daughters of O. 

M. Elliott & wife" [replacement]



Elliott, Leo Rube, 1911-1991; from temporary marker recorded 

in 1991: d. May 10, 1991, "Aged 79 Years 8 Months 21 days"



Elliott, Orville M., Jr., Aug. 28, 1931-Jan. 6, 1932 

[replacement]



Elliott, Rube, Apr. 14, 1869-Oct. 30, 1912, "Father"

Elliott, Ella, Oct. 28, 1874-____, "Mother" [sunken spot and 

flowers indicate she is buried here]



Elliott, Zula Mae, 1904-1921, "Daughter of Rube & Ella 

Elliott"



Gibbons, Roy E., 1925-1975, military marker "Pvt US Army World 

War II"



Goodman, Louise Churchwell, 1917-1943



Harrington, William, Mar. 8, 1852-Nov. 11, 1935

Harrington, Mollie, May 21, 1857-Aug. 3, 1934



Hill, Grapel Irene, July 3, 1935-____, unplaced "Mother" 

footstone

Hill, Gordon Browning, Apr. 22, 1926-Apr. 16, 1998, "Father" 

footstone; also military marker as footstone "Cpl US Army 

World War II"; "Children of G. B. and Grapel: Susan Brenda 

Ricky Deborah"



Jenkins, N. A., Nov. 18, 1846-Feb. 2, 1927 (broken)



Lacy, Aultie M., Mar. 14, 1899-June 26, 1981



Lacy, Tennie, Mar. 5, 1885-Jan. 10, 1969, "Mother"



Laster, Ethel M., Nov. 24, 1892-Oct. 5, 1976, "Second Love"



Laster, Ethie Tate, 1884-1912 [replacement]



Laster, Felix L., Mar. 5, 1881-Aug. 6, 1974, "Father" 

footstone



Laster, Nannie Savage, 1882-1909, "Wife of Felix Laster" 

"Daughters--Nettie & Nora"



Leasure, ______, Aug. 1914, "Son of Mr. & Mrs. Pete Leasure" 

[replacement]



Long, Alice, 1877-1918, "Mother" [replacement]



Luna, Helen, born & died 1909, "Dau. of J. P. & L. A. Luna"



Luna, John P., Jan. 30, 1883-Oct. 15, 1918, "Husband of Lillie 

Luna"



Luna, Lillie, d. Nov. 25, 1917, "Age 27 yrs 8 mos 28 days" 

"Wife of John P. Luna"



Massey, Anna Coleman, Jan. 10, 1961-____, "Loving mother"



McClure, R. C., 1927-1927

McClure, D. J., 1924-1924, "Sons of Homer & Florence"



McCorkle, Bessie M., 1898-1949 "Mother" footstone

McCorkle, Gene E., 1896-1945, "Father" footstone



McCorkle, Graden E., 1920, "Son of Mr. & Mrs. G. E. McCorkle" 

[replacement]



McCorkle, James William, 1921-1943, "Buried at sea"



McCorkle, Jas. E., July 6, 1871-Sept. 7, 1916 [Woodmen of the 

World memorial]



McCorkle, Rean, Apr. 23, 1875-Mar. 1, 1948



Noland, Georgia N., 1919-1993, temporary marker, Boyd Funeral 

Home, 2 yards north of double marker for Sallie M. and William 

W. Sykes



Noland, Morris Owen, 1922-1994, temporary marker, Boyd Funeral 

Home, 3 yards north of double marker for Sallie M. and William 

W. Sykes



Pearcy, Bonnie Ray, 1898-1930 [replacement]



Pearcy, Cordellea, 1869-1912 [replacement]

Pearcy, William Loss, 1859-1914



Pearcy, Dona E., 1899-1989

Pearcy, Robert E., 1888-1970, "Married Feb. 4, 1916"



Pearcy, Elga, 1891-1908 [replacement]



Pearcy, Infant, 1907 [replacement]



Pearcy, Jewel, Aug. 1893-Dec. 1919 [replacement]



Pearcy, L. C., Jr., Oct. 29, 1930-Feb. 3, 1987, military 

marker as footstone "Cpl US Army"



Pearcy, Lloyd B., Sept. 6, 1901-Dec. 12, 1995

Pearcy, Clara B., Dec. 13, 1913-Feb. 8, 1994



Pearcy, William Lawson, Nov. 2, 1916-Sept. 9, 1991, military 

marker "Pvt US Army World War II"; also temporary marker, Boyd 

Funeral Home, Willie "Bill" Pearcy



Reaves, Mura Alice, 1878-1928, "Mom" footstone

Reaves, John Ben, 1876-1957, "Dad" footstone



Rimmer, G. W., d. May 8, 1914, "Age 64 Ys 22 Ds" (fallen)



Rosson, Ettie [see White, Ettie Rosson]



Rosson, James Leroy, 1926-1953



Rushing, Thelma Leona, Feb. 8, 1924-Nov. 4, 1921, "Daughter of 

Clyde and Nettie" [replacement]



Savage, G. F., d. May 2, 1918, "Aged 38 ys." "Husband of 

Hettie Savage"



Savage, Hettie, d. May 23, 1915, "Age 33 yrs." "Wife of G. F. 

Savage"



Savage, J. M., Mar. 25, 1841-July 20, 1928; also military 

marker "James M. Savage" "Pvt Co K 51 Tenn Inf Confederate 

States Army"



Savage, J. M., Dec. 28, 1871-Jan. 12, 1927



Savage, Martha E., Nov. 17, 1861-June 28, 1951



Savage, Nannie [see Laster, Nannie Savage]



Swafford, Alvalda, Feb. 10, 1913-June 29, 1914, "Dau. of Rona 

and Laly Swafford"



Sykes, Ernest F., 1900-1978

Sykes, Mirtie L., 1902-1990



Sykes, Sallie M., June 13, 1886-Feb. 12, 1978, "Mother" 

footstone

Sykes, William W., Apr. 20, 1883-Dec. 9, 1961, "Father" 

footstone



Sykes, William Billy, Feb. 10, 1924-May 19, 1995, military 

marker "US Navy World War II"



Tate, Blount E., 1894-1978, military marker "Pvt US Army World 

War I"



Tate, Ethie [see Laster, Ethie Tate]



Tate, George, Nov. 25, 1916-Sept. 29, 1934



Tate, J. H., d. May 19, 1916, "Age 57 yrs 6 mos 8 days"



Tate, Jimmy D., May 31, 1918-Feb. 11, 1919, "Dau. of J. D. & 

B. E. Tate"



Tate, Joe, Mar. 13, 1871-Feb. 6, 1923, "Husband of Mattie 

Tate" [Woodmen of the World memorial]



Tate, Mattie L., 1872-1945, "Wife of Joe Tate"



Tate, Walter F., 1903-1931



Veal, Maggie, d. Dec. 11, 1911, "Aged 10 Ys 8 Ms 9 Ds" "Dau. 

of W. J. & M. E. Veal"



Veal, Mary E., 1874-1951



Veal, Opal, 1910-1995



Veal, William J., Aug. 11, 1880-Jan. 18, 1924, "Husband of 

Mary Veal"



Welch, Johnnie, 1909-1959, "Put up by Mary J. Welch"



Welch, Mary J., 1867-____ [she is buried in Milan, Tennessee]

Welch, G. W., 1861-1939



White, Ettie Rosson, Aug. 10, 1891-Apr. 4, 1922, "Wife of 

Frank White"



Woods, Lewis, June 9, 1910-July 12, 1925, "Son of D. D. & W. 

E. Woods" "In memorial of Peoples Burial Ass'on"



 



Unknown Black Burials



            AB. These two letters and possibly a third appear 

on a fieldstone just west of the marker for Samuel Ashcraft. 

The story passed down among families using this cemetery is 

that this was a servant of Samuel Ashcraft who asked to be 

buried next to his master.



            There are 6-8 blacks buried in the northeast 

corner of the cemetery. These were marked with small 

fieldstones as late as 1960 and some locations are still 

identifiable as shallow depressions.