Milam County TX - Cemetery - Old Nashville Cemetery ******************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Milam County Genealogical Society with permission from Mrs. John T. Martin (nee: Evelyn Curtsinger) Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************************* CEMETERY RECORDS - INTRODUCTION All of the cemeteries copied lie in the northeastern portion of Milam County (except Fort Griffin). Every effort has been made to copy all tombstone inscriptions; however, many graves are marked only with metal markers (no longer readable), footstones, wooden stobs, rocks, or clumps of iris. All graves have been noted -- both those with or without tombstones. Those without inscriptions are included to assist those searching for gravestones -- which do not exist. They are noted as follows, example: McNEILL, James Hugh, Aug. 18, 1876 - Mar. 3, 1958 (2*) JOHNSON, W. T., 1897-1926 The figure within the parenthesis (2*) indicates that two graves without tombstone inscriptions lie between or near the graves of McNeill and Johnson. Perhaps they belong to members of these families. It was necessary to edit most of the inscriptions, i.e., abbreviate dates, omit verses, etc., but no information was omitted regarding the names on the stones, and relationships were included when it was at all possible. Sometimes a stone read "Father" on the stone itself, sometimes on the footstone. Every effort has been made to preserve such notations. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Old Nashville Cemetery, Milam County, Texas Located in the curve of the road 100 yards North of Hwy. #79 between Gause and Hearne, Texas. It is 6 miles west of Hearne, and several hundred yards west of the bluff on the west bank of the Brazos River. It is very difficult to find, as only a few broken stones remain. The cemetery is on a rise in a clearing due west of a draw, near a pond. (Copied November 1, 1963.) ROBERTS, Nancy, Dec. 27, 1800 - Dec. 29, 1839, aged 39 years & 2 days REYNOLDS, W. E., Feb. 11, 1845 (?) - Apr. 8, 1874, Age 23 yrs. 1 mo. & 22 days FERGUSEN, Sampson P., b. in Edgfield D. D. (sic) So. Ca., Apr. 10, 1817 - Nov. 18, 1869, Aged 52 years & 6 days (Mason?) (5*) ROBERTSON, Sterling Clack (founder of Nashville) Sterling Clack ROBERTSON was born in what is now Nashville, Tennessee on October 2, 1785 and died on March 4, 1842 in Robertson Co., Texas. He was buried in the Nashville Cemetery, but on January 28, 1935 his remains were removed to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. ("Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845," p. 159 & 160.) - - - - - - - - - - SOURCE: "Milam County, Texas Records - Vol. 1" - Compiled by Mrs. John T. Martin (nee: Evelyn Curtsinger) and Mrs. Louis C. Hill (nee: Kathryn Curtsinger - Deceased), Printed in Waco, Texas, 1965. In 2003, Mrs. Martin granted permission to place information from this book on the internet, in writing, to the Milam County Genealogical Society.