HENDERSON COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - [Old] SDhady Grove 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 copyright holder, Jonathan K. T. Smith. The copyright holder has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by Jonathan K. T. Smith. Scanned and reformatted by David Donahue. ========================================================================= From "Shady Grove Methodist Church" (p. 56) A Genealogical Miscellany Henderson County, Tennessee IV By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2001 [OLD] SHADY GROVE CEMETERY (Page 56) The old Shady Grove burial ground was long ago abandoned and some of its tombstones were subsequently carried off; the few now left have fallen and/or been shattered. Read by the present writer, June 19, 2001: Remains of SARAH WILSON Born Dec. l, 1804 Died (lower portion missing) ELIZABETH, daughter of John B. & Sarah WILSON Died Feb. 10, 1851 Aged 23 yrs. 9 mo's. 9 da's. JOSEPH B., son of John B. & Sarah WILSON Died Mar. 10, 1845 Aged 10 yrs. 5 mo's. 2 da's. MALINDA, daughter of John & Sarah BEVILL (lower portion broken off) Nearby lies the lower portion of a tombstone that is inscribed, with a nineteenth century death date evident, "in the 21 year of her age." If this is part of the lower portion of Malinda Bevill's tombstone, as she was given as age 9 years in the 1850 Census in her parents' household (page 328), then she died about 1862. The October 17, 1850 U.S. Census entry (Civil District 8 of Henderson County), page 332, for John Wilson's family: John Wilson, 52, N.C., farmer Sarah Wilson, 46, N.C. Henry T. Wilson, 26, N.C. John C. Wilson, 25, Tenn. Elizabeth A. Wilson, 22, Tenn. James T. Wilson, 21, Tenn. Samuel M. Wilson, 18, Tenn. William R. Wilson, 12, Tenn. Francis Wilson, male, 8, Tenn. Sarah M. Wilson, 6, Tenn. Sarah Caffy (Coffy) and John Wilson were married in Rockingham County, North Carolina, November 28, 1822 (bond). The biographical sketch of their son, James T. Wilson (HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, Henderson County, by W. A. Goodspeed, 1887, page 861) states that he was born the son of John B. and Sallie Coffy, the fourth of nine children; that the Wilsons moved from Carolina to Henderson County in 1832. The mother died and the father was remarried to Mary Pugh. (unquote) The mother is stated to have died in 1846 which is in error because she was still living in 1850. The mother died sometime in the 1850s and her widower married Mary Pugh with whom there were no known children. John B. Wilson died in 1876 on September 4, that year, Jackson Anderson qualified as administrator of his estate. (Henderson County Administrators Records, 1861-1899, page 149) His heirs receiving portions of his estate in 1879 were S. M. Wilson, J. C. Wilson, J. T. Wilson, Frank Wilson, Mahala Wilson and the wife of Henry Flake. (IBID. Administrators, Executors Settlements, 1859-1881, pages 383- 385) John B. Wilson (February 5, 1798-August 3, 1876) and Mary (Pugh) Wilson (March 7, 1810-February 13, 1885) were buried in the Coffey Cemetery near Bargerton along with his sons, J. C. Wilson (1825-1907) and S. M. Wilson (1832-1914). The son, Francis Asbury Wilson (1842-1921) is buried elsewhere in the county.