GIBSON COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Salem Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery Afro American ==================================================================== 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: John A. Scruggs August 2000 jscruggs@usit.net ==================================================================== SALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH - An Afro American Church and Cemetery =============================================================================== This cemetery is located next to the Salem Missionary Baptist Church, which is located at 202 Leslie Scruggs Rd., Gibson Co., Tn. This is the church that was burned in Dec. 1995, and on which President Clinton and Vice-President Gore worked in Aug. 1996. The land for the church was sold to the trustees in April 1872, and registered in July 1872, by N. A. Coleman and Ann Eliza Coleman - his wife. Later, according to the church history, more land was purchased for the cemetery. Tom Caldwell - ( PFC-388 Engr-Gen Svc Regt-WWII ) 8-17-1914 - 12-15-1953 Ada L. Lacey 10-31-1877 - 11-18-1945 William Washington Lacey 7-4-1869 - 8-27-1929 Ether V. Lacey 1897 - 1949 Rev. J. B. Outlaw 9-19-1899 - 4-5-1996 Eva Mae Outlaw 1902 - 1978 Chester A. Booth - ( Pvt-US Army-WWI ) 3-3-1893 - 7-15-1977 Albert Booth 1-10-1853 - 2-3-1925 Garrett Herron 1883 - 1956 Nora Herron 1886 - 1956 Bennie Thomas 10-12-1897 - 1-3-1898 Patsy Skinner 1862 - 1948 Jesse Skinner 1863 - 1937 Bettie Randolph 1874 - 1954 Wallace Lewis 1875 - 1940 George Lewis 1873 - 1921 Clarence E. Lewis 1893 - 1926 Tommie J. Lewis 1886 - 1928 John V. Lewis 1899 - 1930 Mattie Thomas Lewis 1875 - 1939 John A. Lewis 1867 - 1941 L. B. Bursey 1850 - 1938 Isaac Sims 1854 - 1928 Jane Sims 1863 - 1930 Rittie Exum 3-25-1882 - 11-13-1924 William Davis 8-12-1893 - 1-12-1941 Annie Davis 8-12-1898 - 2-9-1925 Homer - son of Phelan and Mattie Davis 10-13-1800 - 10-11-1918 Haywood Burrow 1862 - 1924 Sallie Burrow 4-15-1861 - Ann Ellis - mother of Rev. P. A. Ellis 1827 - 1887 Margaret Blakemore 1829 - 7-1868 Emily Blakemore 5-15-1883 - 1-16-1902 Wilson Blakemore 11-2-1871 - 9-29-1887 Susie M. Lewis 1905 - 1922 Luther Lewis 1915 - 1918 Susie Anna Lewis - Mother 1868 - 1906 Lillie D. Lewis - Sister 1891 - 1920 Annie Sims 1863 - 1896 Luther Donaldson 1879 - 1963 Rosia Donaldson 1889 - Harry W. Johnson 11-7-1937 - 5-25-1969 Sylvester Harrell 9-18-1894 - 3-5-1971 Acie Simpson 1891 - 1971 Lillie Mae Jones 2-3-1902 - 1-3-1987 Bessie Bonds 1898 - 1957 Emma Gertrude Boyd 1895 - 1951 Howard Bardwell 11-1-1910 - 8-7-1989 Beulah Bardwell 12-7-1910 - 3-5-1993 Norman Williams - ( Pvt-US Army-WWII ) 3-11-1910 - 9-8-1981 Virginia Sims Williams 12-28-1899 - 6-19-1988 Arthur W. Sims - ( Pvt-US Army-WWI ) 11-30-1892 - 6-20-1979 Henry S. Sims 1890 - 1973 Pearl E. Sims 1892 - 1984 Enid Anitia Sims 9-7-1911 - Rachel E. Sims 10-28-1885 - 5-19-1975 Ben F. Sims 12-11-1886 - 1-21-1969 Tee Skinner - ( US Army-WWI ) 1894 - 1981 Martha Davis 2-24-1896 - 12-8-1985 Arneta F. Davis 2-22-1918 - 8-23-1998 Alphonso Booth 1898 - 1975 Lizzie Booth 1900 - Louvenia Nash 9-8-1903 - 10-11-1982 Sarah L. Donaldson James L. Donaldson 8-2-1923 - 12-24-1980 Thomas R. Booth 1919 - 1989 Theodore R. Booth 10-24-1917 - 10-6-1997 Henry Lee Dance 9-19-1937 - 1-11-2000 Robert Lee Crawford 2-8-1939 - 7-23-1984 Allgee (Algie) Lowery 4-24-1933 - 11-26-1976 Luther Carter, Sr. 2-9-1910 - 10-31-1982 Erica Denise Peoples 6-26-1978 - 7-29-1997 Bessie Grandberry Cleaves 11-6-1906 - 4-6-1985 Annie Mae Grandberry Brown 9-14-1902 - 8-30-1988 Margie Johnson 2-10-1914 - 8-5-1945 James Fly - no stone Odom Fly - no stone 3 that were unreadable =============================================================================== USE YOUR BROWSER'S BACK FUNCTION TO RETURN TO THE GIBSON CEMETERY INDEX