WHITE COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Rice 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 file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Will Smith ==================================================================== The Rice cemetery also includes the Howell and Saylors cemeteries, and is located just across the Putnam/White County line from Burgess Falls State Park. The following list of those buried there was compiled in 1983 by Mrs. Nancy Massa Goolsby and her daughter, Mrs. Betty Goolsby Doyle. Betty Doyle provided this compilation to the author in 1994. After much careful and painstaking research, the data was updated, and is herein presented. This cemetery record is most valuable as many of the monuments identified in 1983 are no longer there, having been removed by a vandal. It is rumored that the markers were removed "to make it easier to mow". Removing and / or destroying grave monuments is a felony. It is not known if the creature responsible for this reprehensible act was ever prosecuted. He should be - to the fullest extent of the law. SAYLORS CEMETERY Row One Birth date Death date Margaret Jane Saylors Steward October 3, 1882 No date given William Alton Saylors June 24, 1902 April 24, 1923 Malcom Monroe Saylors June 24, 1902 April 28, 1967 Row Two Felix Monroe Saylors 20 Nov 1883 10 Jun 1949 William Simpson Saylors 18 May 1881 18 Aug 1908 Sarah Fina Saylors 13 July 1886 2 Apr 1904 Elizabeth (Hitchcock) Saylors 20 June 1854 10 Sep 1934 (m. 4 Aug 1880) Daniel K. Saylors 10 Jul 1855 25 July 1881 Jane Saylors 15 Feb 1823 23 June 1905 W. S. Saylors born 1821 27 June 1887 Row Three Sophronia Saylors No date "Departed 4 July 1920" S. H. Combs 7 Feb 1866 23 Feb 1898 Landen Combs 18 May 1892 7 Dec 1898 Beecher Combs 20 Dec 1887 23 Mar 1888 Row Four Unmarked graves Nancy Jane (Saylors) Green 18 Sep 1857 9 May 1938 (m. 28 Sept. 1875) John Green 14 Mar 1855 6 Jan 1912 ========================================================================== RICE CEMETERY Beginning Inside Circle Drive Row One Celia Mae Ward 13 Oct 1910 7 Dec 1975 Fannie Lou Ward 24 Apr 1944 8 Sept 1944 Unmarked graves Maggie Lou Stoglin 24 Sept 1906 26 Sept 1954 William Homer Stoglin 6 May 1900 26 Sept 1973 Infant Child 1 No date No date of Mr. & Mrs. Lumford Howell Infant Child 2 No date No date of Mr. & Mrs. Lumford Howell Manda (Thomas) Howell 25 Aug 1895 11 Apr 1977 Lunford Howell 4 Apr 1894 23 Sept 1980 Row Two - Left to Right Two unmarked graves Sallie Cole Flannigan 8 Aug 1874 23 Sept 1958 Silas Isaac Cole No date 27 July 1910 PVT TN 328 INF 82nd Div Sarah Cole 1845 10 July 1912 "age about 67 years". Matilda Cole 1877 1926 "Wife of James H. Howell" Infant Howell No date Sept 1899 James H. Howell 1899 1939 Asher D. Howell 1904 1941 Unmarked grave M.A.H. No date No date Infant Child No date No date of J. S. Bussell & Wife Prilla Ann Howell 27 Nov 1893 21 Aug 1926 Richard Hillman Bussell 20 Jan 1907 No date Victoria M. Cole 30 Oct 1881 7 Nov 1969 "Dau. of Wm. Howell & Elvira Thomas" Horace Greely Cole 20 Jan 1903 29 Oct 1903 L. A. (Lola Agnes) Cole 17 Feb 1900 6 Sept 1900 New stone at head of old slabs M. A. Howell 28 Sept 1879 30 Aug 1883 W. S. Howell 6 Dec 1875 3 Feb 1897 W. D. Howell 28 May 1844 30 Aug 1901 Double Marker W. D. Howell was the son of Silas Howell and Matilda C. Rice Elvira (Thomas) Howell 8 July 1864 9 Feb 1942 Wife of W.D. Howell Vera Marie Howell 5 Mar 1917 5 Apr 1917 Dau. of Ray & Ova Howell Row Three Three Unmarked graves Twelve Unmarked graves Row Four Three Unmarked graves Two of these may be the graves of Silas and Matilda (Rice)Howell ELEANOR RICE 1792 11 May 1865 Born in S. C. WILLIAM B. RICE SR. 1794 Oct 1845 Born in N.C. Grave unmarked but identified. Martha Rice 1824 16 Mar 1858 Mary (Rice) Tallent 1819 1 Nov 1868 E. Jaco No date. Grave unmarked. If Eli, born 1839 Believed to be Eli Alexander Jaco No date. If Eli, he died after 1910 Space Sarah J. Jaco 1815 Nov 1877 Dau of John and Nancy Brewer Howell. Married (1) John A. Rice. (2) John Jaco. John A. Rice 1815 1837 Son of Wm B. & Eleanor Rice. Killed by a bear or wild boar about 1837. Grave unmarked but identified. Six Unmarked graves Stones Broken - illegible Row Five Unmarked grave Charlotte (Massa) Montgomery 6 Dec 1828 8 Jan 1899 Sister of Dorinda C.Massa who married John Rice, son of John A. Rice and Sarah Howell. She married Leftwich Montgomery. Two Unmarked graves Five Unmarked graves Row Six Sarah Tennessee Rice 5 May 1870 4 June 1904 Nancy Rice 12 Sep 1851 14 Dec 1923 Dau of Henry Gambrell and Abby Maynard William Rice 15 Dec 1843 9 Apr 1894 Son of Wm Rice Jr. and Mary Massa William H. (Henry) Rice 7 Dec 1872 19 Mar 1906 Row Seven Unmarked grave Malissa Rice Hickey 3 Apr 1876 3 May 1915 "Wife of W. T. Hickey" John S. Bussell 31 Aug 1879 17 Aug 1952 Monument destroyed Amanda C. Bussell 25 Dec 1883 11 Feb 1946 Monument destroyed Alta Bussell 13 Mar 1904 10 May 1905 Monument destroyed Hooper Bussell 10 May 1910 17 Apr 1917 Monument destroyed