OBION COUNTY TN - CEMETERIES - Turnpike (Roach - Miles - Finch Cemeteries ********************************************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jane N. Powell ********************************************************************************************************** Mr. Haywood Green, local historian and writer of the Mason Hall and Turnpike area, and I recently visted three (3) local cemeteries not included in the cemetery pages. The cemeteries were transcribed in 1960 by Mr Green and are mentioned in his book Mason Hall Community History. Mr. Green has given his permission to post them in the hope that someone may be able to use this information. Milton Webb of Rutherford has found a few more markers in Miles Cemetery and they are posted on his family web page on the Gibson Co site. THE TURNPIKE CEMETERIES These three cemeteries are some of the oldest in the county and at one time contained very many grave markers. They are located just south of the old Turnpike Bridge north of Mason Hall. The cemeteries have long been abandoned and very few markers remain today. ROACH Cemetery Two miles southwest of the Turnpike north of Ferrell Road on a road that no longer exists fromTrimble to the Turnpike. J. O. Roach 8 Apr 1806 - 3 Dec 1884 Ladooska Roach 25 Mar 1835 - 14 Jan 1868 w/o J. R. Roach Susan Crain 28 Sep 1860 - 22 Mar 1861 d/o F. and S. Crain Eliza Reeves 17 Nov 1824 - 30 Sep 1860 William N. Noonan 7 Jul 159 - 2 Jan 1885 MILES Cemetery One mile south of the Turnpike on C. K. Hardin Rd. Nancy A. Carr 8 Oct 1825 - 7 May 1844 w/o J. A. Carr Sally Reeves 16 Sep 1857 - 13 Nov 1875 Hanna Rust 6 Feb 1821 - 10 Sep 1896 w/o Armand Rust Vanleah Miles 14 Dec 1884 - 16 Oct 1908 Lofton Miles 16 Jul 1882 - 25 May 1906 Milissa Miles 4 May 1851 - 25 Aug 1878 w/o W. C. 'Billy' Miles 1849 - 1897 Mary Wright 8 Mar 1808 - 1879 w/o H. W. Wright James Jonathon Jackson CSA 1808 - 1879 Harold J. Wright 16 Jan 1917 - 23 Oct 1919 FINCH cemetery One mile southeast of Turnpike on the Harman Caudle Road which was once the main road from Kenton to Troy. Norton Oakes 17 Feb 1799 - 2 May 1866 A. J. Pierce 31 Aug 1872 - 13 Aug 1898 J. M. Pierce 22 Feb 1841 - 4 Jan 1912 Robert Lee Pierce 11 Mar 1873 - 1882 s/o J. M. Pierce Elsie Pierce 1 May 1842 - 18 May 1884 w/o J. M. Pierce Amos Finch 16 Dec 1821 - 1 Sep 1881 Susan Augusta Pierce Finch 15 Apr 1819 - 1895 w/o Amos Finch Frances Tennessee Finch 3 Jun 1846 - 27 Apr 1916 d/o Amos Finch