HENDERSON COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Garrett Cemetery

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GARRETT CEMETERY

Henderson County, Tennessee

Recorded by Dovie Little (1938) and Dottie Wiggin (1976)



            One should never cut the trees from an abandoned 

cemetery. The Garrett Cemetery in 1999 was an impenetrable 

thicket. A nearby resident says that a few years ago the trees 

in the cemetery were harvested. Mature trees shade out 

undergrowth. In the nineteenth century cedars were planted 

around many cemeteries. The dense, year round shade of cedars 

shades out almost all native undergrowth and left the cemetery 

accessible before the invention of lawnmowers. A cemetery 

which has fully reverted to woods is also easily accessible. 

If Garrett Cemetery is left alone for about 30 years, the new 

trees will grow big enough to shade out most of the other 

growth and the cemetery can be visited again.



            There are three earlier records of this cemetery. 

The first was made for the Works Progress Administration by 

Dovie E. Little and is dated April 19, 1938. It appears in 

Tennessee Records of Henderson County, Bible Records and 

Tombstone Inscriptions (Nashville, Historical Records Survey, 

July 27, 1939, pp. 59-61). Dottie Wiggin recorded Garrett 

Cemetery in 1976 which she noted to be "in the woods." Her 

record appears in Henderson County, Tennessee Cemetery 

Inscriptions (R. H. Harris, Memphis, 1976), Vol. II, pp. 383-

384. Lewis Jones also recorded the cemetery. It appears in his 

Cemeteries in Chester County (1982, p. 26). 



            The cemetery was must have been easily accessible 

to both Wiggin and Lewis because there was a single marker 

difference in the number of markers each found and recorded. 

The marker information below is generally based on the record 

by Dovie Little. Information in Little is used with one 

exception. Wiggin is the source for items not listed by 

Little.



 



Arnold, Infant, no dates, "Infant of W. N. & Margarett Arnold"



Arnold, Infant, d. Dec. 10, 1882, "Infant son of J. M. & L. F. 

Arnold"



Arnold, Margaret A., May/1824-Oct. 28, 1864, "Wife of W. N. 

Arnold"; marker by D. H. Winans, Cairo, Ill.



Arnold, Miles Nicholas, Aug. 27, 1857-Nov. 10, 1857, "Son of 

W. N. & Margarett Arnold"



Arnold, Nancy Ellen, Feb. 7, 1855-Nov. 1, 1857, "Dau. of W. N. 

& Margarett Arnold"



Arnold, W. F., Dec. 27, 1859-Oct. 20, 1880, "Son of W. N. & 

Margarett Arnold"



Arnold, William Clay, Nov. 5, 1846-June 17, 1849, "Son of W. 

N. & Margaret Arnold"



Arnold, Willis N., Jan. 10, 1822-Sept. 27, 1894 [Wiggin]



Garrett, Nicholas, Dec. 23, 1799-Oct. 17, 1867



Hart, A. A., Mar. 5, 1863-July 18, 1891, "Amy, we took thee an 

orphan, Loved thee in life and cherished thee in death. G. B. 

& S. M. Wallace"



Hart, Flora, Sept. 27, 1874-Mar. 10, 1895, "Wife of James T. 

Hart"



Maxwell, Geneva, Oct. 19, 1878-Oct. 9, 1905 [Wiggin]



Maxwell, Jimmie, 1901-1908 [Wiggin]



Maxwell, Sallie T., 1863-1921 [Wiggin; as reported by Little: 

Mrs. Sam Maxwell, d. Oct. 10, 1821, Aged ____"]



Smith, Bertha E., Sept. 21, 1887-Sept. 26, 1888, "Dau. of Z. 

T. & A. M. Smith"



Smith, J. F., Jan. 4, 1842-Jan. 24, 1893



Smith, John F., Nov. 28, 1895-Aug. 31, 1899 [Wiggin]



Smith, Josie, Sept. 18, 1873-Jan. 17, 1904, "Wife of A. S. 

(Bob)" [Wiggin]



Smith, Lily May, Aug. 15, 1893-Aug. 15, 1896 [Wiggin]



Smith, M. E., Apr. 20, 1851-Mar. 16, 1886, "Wife of J. F. 

Smith"



Smith, Wilmer, June 16, 1897-Dec. 16, 1915 [Wiggin]



Wadley, Infant, Sept. 25, 1904-Sept. 25, 1904, "Infant of Dyke 

& Jessie" [Wiggin]



Wallace, G. B., Feb. 2, 1843-June 27, 1919 [Masonic symbol]



Wallace, G. B., Jr., Mar. 21, 1868-Mar. 19, 1893



Wallace, J. M., Dec. 12, 1847-July 5, 1914



Wallace, John B., Feb. 10, 1816-Mar. 11, 1879



Wallace, Mildred, July 5, 1843-July 8, 1905, "Wife of G. B. 

Wallace" "Mother"



Wallace, N. S., Feb. 1, 1874-Jan. 24, 1892



Wallace, Salley, Jan. 22, 1831-Mar. 24, 1890, "Second Wife of 

J. B. Wallace"



Wallace, Sarah Matilda, Dec. 1, 1856-Mar. 3, 1911, "Wife" 

"Mother"



Wallace, Susan Rowark, Jan. 26, 1814-Sept. 10, 1854, "Wife of 

John B. Wallace"



West, Luther, Jan. 16, 1891-July 30, 1892, "Son of T. J. & M. 

E. West"



Wilkinson, J. C., July 19, 1831-Nov. 18, 1852, "Son of B. C. & 

M. C." [Wiggin; "Wilkerson" in Little; "Wilkinson" in Wiggin 

and Jones]