SHELBY COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Benjamin Shivers Cemetery
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Benjamin Shivers Cemetery

James Road and Hollywood - Top of Hollywood Hill to the north on west
side of road.This cemetery is at the end of a short entrance road to a
housing project and sits roughly at the back property line to 
Benjamin Shivers property at James Road and Hollywood. Not identified 
on Maptech or other NGIS maps as a cemetery.  No name, Photo's soon to 
be posted on my site. Documented 12/24/2001 Roughly 7 new stones not 
recorded - Partial listing.

Chester Austin D 1918
Florence Craig age 18 Died 1932
Millie Davis age 60 July 25 1909
Alice White b. Aug 26 1892  d. May 31 1906
Willie N  "Cross Only"
Alfred Reeves  d. June 19 1917  2-piece seperated stones
Alfred Williams  d. June 19 1917  2-piece still attached
Missouri Bryant  b July 21 1878  d. Nov 8 1965
Sterling Stokes  age 53  b. Sept 1902  d. Aug 5 1955
Mary Thompson  b. Oct 22 1917  d. Dec 7 1976
Lizzie Rivers  b. 2-26-1898  d. 12-16-1965  w/old marker at foot
E Rivers  b. 2-26-1889  d. 12-16-1965 old marker, date differences
Helen E Piggie  b. Feb 3 1959  d. July 9 1966
John Lee Ervin  b. Sept 9 1911  d. Oct 20 1979
Dixie Gregory  b. Jan 29 1917  d. Jan 14 1968
Mary Brunson Calhoun  b. Nov 27 1914   d. Jun 27 1983

There are two round stones flat with the ground that may have been engraved
but years of mowing across the tops have eroded the stones to be illegible.