FAYETTE COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - POWELL CEMETERY ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Clark ==================================================================== POWELL CEMETERY IT IS ALSO KNOWN AS DASHIELL-CRAWFORD CEMETERY. THE CEMETERY IS LOCATED ABOUT ONE QUARTER MILE WEST OF HWY 76 ABOUT THREE AND ONE HALF MILES SOUTH OF U S 64, NEAR THE OLD POWELL HOME HOUSE. THE CEMETERY WAS ABANDONED MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS AGO AND PROBABLY CLOSE TO A HUNDRED YEARS WHEN THE LAST BURIAL OCCURRED. GROWING UP WITHIN A HALF A MILE OF THIS CEMETERY, I SEEM TO REMEMBER THERE WERE SEVERAL MARKERS. WHEN THE CURRENT INFORMATION WAS GATHERED BY WHIT CRAWFORD, ONLY FOUR MARKERS WERE FOUND. BILLY AND DOROTHY PARKER ARE THE CURRENT OWNERS OF THE LAND AROUND THE CEMETERY. THE CEMETERY IS ON THE RIDGE OVERLOOKING THE OLD RAILROAD BED ABOUT A HUNDRED YARDS WEST OF THE PARKER RESIDENCE. THE FOUR MARKERS FOUND ARE THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAMSON AND MARTHA WASHINGTON McGUFFY POWELL. WILLIAMSON AND MARTHA MOVED FROM WAKE COUNTY, N C TO FAYETTE COUNTY, TENN IN 1832 ALONG WITH HIS SISTER AND HER HUSBAND. WILLIAMSON ACQUIRED LAND FROM 1836 TO 1856. SOMETIME AFTER THE CENSUS OF 1860 WILLIAMSON FOLLOWED HIS SON TO DESOTO COUNTY, MISS. HE AND MARTHA AND MANY OF THEIR CHILDREN ARE BURIED IN SURRETT CEMETERY AT ARKABUTLA, MISS. HE SOLD THE LAND TO DASHIELL. THERE WERE TWO BROTHERS, ROBERT AND EDWARD, AND FOUR SISTERS MARGARET, PRECILLA, ISABELLA AND SARAH. ALL BUT SARAH NEVER MARRIED AND ARE THOUGHT TO BE BURIED HERE ALSO EXCEPT ISABELLA. SHE IS BURIED IN SHADY GROVE CEMETERY IN WILLISTON. EDWARD DIED IN 1882 AT AGE 83. ROBERT DIED IN 1897 AT AGE 90. SARAH AND HER HUSBAND WM CRAWFORD ARE BELIEVED TO BE BURIED HERE ALSO. THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1843. THEIR SON, PETER DASHIELL CRAWFORD, AND WIFE ARE BURIED IN EBENEZER CEMETERY. THE HISTORY OF THE CEMETERY HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY MRS HARRISON CRAWFORD. CANDIS POWELL FEB 15, 1827 – MAY 18, 1841 CASWELL HENDERSON POWELL FEB 16, 1833 – FEB 7, 1856 ELEANOR FRANCES POWELL AUG 8, 1834 – AUG 5, 1844 ANJELINE POWELL APRIL 15, 1836 - AUG 12, 1851