HAYWOOD COUNTY TN - CHURCH - Trinity United Methodist Church ********************************************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jane N. Powell ********************************************************************************************************** Trinity United Methodist Church Located at Nut Bush in Haywood County, the church was organized in 1822 after a camp meeting by Bishop Moses Brock. The church was formerly known as Buckhorn church and located a mile south of the present location. Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States worshiped at Buckhorn when camped at the site and surveying in the Haywood-Lauderdale area. The church moved to the present location circa 1848 and changed the name to Trinity. Trinity Cemetery, directly behind the church building and the first burial was that of Bennett Greaves in 1849. This is the final resting place of many soldiers of all wars, including Southern and Union soldiers "The War Between the States." During reconstruction Trinity cemetery was a meeting place of the Ku Klux Klan, and there this clan was disbanded by its cyclops when unlawful bodies began operating as clans. Trinity Cemetery Association, formed in 1907, meets monthly, supervises the care of the grounds and with Trinity Church holds an annual Homecoming on the 2nd Sunday in May, Mother's Day. Government markers have been secured and set in place for all the unmarked soldiers. The following lists were supplied by Dr. Robert Rooks and his father, Ned Rooks, who lovingly place American and Confederate Flags on the graves each year for Homecoming. Soldiers buried at Trinity from War Between the States Union: R. L. Quick Confederate Alison, Benjamin Walker Baker, Eli Binford, H. G. Bryan, James D. Clay, C. T. Covington, R. B. Covington, W. H. Crisp, J. H. Davis, Ben T. (Capt.) Elmore, A. M. Gause, F. B. Gilbert, Mason V. Graves, J. E. Greaves, W. F. Greaves, John F. Greaves, Edwin A. Hart, Lorenzo Thornton Harvey, T. A. Hathcock, William H. Higgins, W. P. Holcomb, James Holcomb, Nevil Holcomb, Thomas Hood, Theophilus T. Jeffries, Geo. W. Jeffries, Robert Johnson, Jesse King, S. S. Lanier, David M Lay, J. O. McKinnon, John A. McLeod, James R. McNarin, Larkin R Medlin, W. G. Morris, William L. Norman, T. J Perkins, J. C. Rayner, Kenneth Roberson, J. M. Shaw, William J. (Capt.) Shepard, Alford Smoot, J. G. Solomon, Henry Spiller, Daniel Columbus Spiller, Augustus R Vaughn, W. W. (Col.) Walker, L. G. Watkins, James Benjamin Watkins, James M. Weems, A. West, John B. White, R. T. Williams, E. D. American Service Men and Women Buried At Trinity Austin, Carl Bain, John Iverson Bain, T. Hale Bain, Edgar Folk (Dick) Ballard, Talbert L. Binford, David G. Binford, Lynn Jeffries Bishop, George Arthur Bishop, Margie Ann Boswell, James E. Bridgewater, Lee Roy Bryant, Oscar Wesley Burns, James Marlin Cashion, William R. Cashion, Luther Wilson Cashion, James H. Christmas, John R. Jr. Conner, P. N. Jr. Cook, Earl Covington, William Glenn Covington, Willie S. Crouch, Burley Anderson Daniels, Ambrose Daniels, Elbert Red Daniels, James W. Ditto, James Edward Dixon, James Monroe Dixon, Otha C Drumwright, Thomas N. Drumwright, William Lawson Earnest, Robert Louis Edwards, William F. Elder, Jamie P. Emison, Robert Andrews Fowler, Andrew Gill Gause, Emmett F. Gibbs, John Sanford Gilbert, Nolon F. Goin, Woodrow W. Graves, William B. Greaves, William F. Griggs, Ernest D. Griggs, Harry Harrison, James Travis Harvey, T. A. Harvey, James A. Hendrix, Herman L. Hicks, Edgar Lee Holcomb, Edly Fate Holcomb, John E. Hood, George C. Hopkins, Samuel Milton Howard, James Edward Jeffries, Charles W. Lassiter, Donald T. Lea, James Robert Lomas, John Kelley Luckett, Richard P. Luckett, Robert Bruce Jr. Luckett, Andrew James Luckett, Robert Bruce Maness, J. Jack Mann, Ray Paxton McLeod, K. Morrow Mitchell, Albert S. Morris, Thomas Homer Northcutt, Walter G. Norvell, Talton E. Norvell, Bryan Arthur O’Daniel, Robert L Rhodes, Vernon L Roberson, Mitchell H. Sanford, Samuel W. Sansberry, V. C. Sharp, Orville Littleton Smith, Earnest N. Smoot, Jenifer Medley Stafford, James W. Stokely, Walter Allen Stuart, Donovan A Taylor, Dan Taylor, George Thomas, Gill Thomas, William Leonard Thompson, Paul E. Jr Walton, Hermon L. Walton, Henry D. Watson, E. T. Jack Weems, Robert Marvin Weems, Edgar White, Joe Jr. White, Thomas J. Wiggins, Alphonse S Williams, Robert Bernard Willis, Herbert B. Wood, Bennie F. Woodward, Olin C. (M. Sgt.)