HENDERSON COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Dr. Dudley H. Williams Cemetery
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DR. DUDLEY H. WILLIAMS CEMETERY

Jonathan K. T. Smith

This cemetery record was found in the vertical file at the 
Everett Horn Library in Lexington. The format has been changed 
for HTML presentation.

 

            Located about .2 mile south of Rocky Springs 
Road,from alane off :this road about a half mile from its 
juncture with Highway 22-North at Parker's Cross Roads.

            The old Dr. Dudley H. Williams' log house (two 
story log house, two rooms over two rooms) stood for many 
years about .1 mile from Rocky Springs Road just southwest of 
which was the family graveyard. According to Mr. Rush Kee 
(born 1930), whose family has owned this location for many 
years, the old Williams house burned about 1945. He remembered 
personally seeing dark blotches on timbers in upstairs of the 
house his elders told him were blood stains from wounded 
soldiers brought there for treatment at the time of the battle 
of Parker's Cross Roads in December 1862.

            The burial ground has been disturbed by cattle and 
some tombstones are missing.

 

Andrews, Lester, May 13, 1883-Nov.30, 1883, "Son of Dr. A. G. 
& M. E. Andrews"

Andrews, Hewlett, May 13, 1883- July 10,1883, "Son of Dr. A. 
G. & M. E. Andrews"

Pritchard, J .W., May 11, 1829-August 25, 1881

a footstone inscribed: A.M.P.

Lower portion of a tombstone inscribed: Died Oct.13, 1883
[This marked the grave of Dr. Dudley H. Williams. The various 
censuses indicate that Dr. Williams was born about 1815.]

 

            Also buried here, according to the Jackson 
Dispatch (Tenn.), September 5, 1890, is Susan, widow of Dr. D. 
H. Williams, born September 20, 1820; died August 24, 1890; 
married in 1835.

            There may be other individuals buried in this 
abandoned cemetery but now forgotten.

            Lester and Hewette Andrews were the twin sons of 
Dr. Adolphus Gayleon Andrews and his wife, Mary Elizabeth 
(Williams) Andrews, the latter a daughter of Dr. Dudley H. and 
Susan Williams. Dr. Andrews and family lived in Spring Creek, 
Tennessee.