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Perry County, Tennessee

Cemeteries

 

 

 

We are blessed to have volunteers who have spent many countless hours recording and transcribing the cemeteries in Perry County.  These transcriptions have been put on various web pages.  I have found that using these transcriptions can be tricky and confusing at times, since some cemeteries have a couple names and sometimes different cemeteries have the same name.

 

 

I am aware of several different major cemetery transcriptions that have been done for Perry County:

  • The Works Project Administration (WPA) did transcriptions in the 1930s.  I do not know of an online transcription of this work.

  • David Donahue did several transcriptions, mostly in 1999, 2001 and 2004.  These were recorded, transcribed and posted on 2 TNGenWeb sites:

        *    oldest Perry County cemetery site organized by river location;

        *    newest site, now completely searchable;

  • There have also been individuals who have gone out and transcribed individual cemeteries.  If I become aware of one of these transcriptions, these also will be included in this project.

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you want to do a search for your ancestor and you don't know what cemetery they are buried in, I would do 2 separate searches:

1)   go to the TNGenWeb search engine on this site (click here).  Then enter in the name of your ancestor "without quote marks".  This will search all the Bowen books.

2)  then go to the new Perry County cemetery searchable site. (click here). This will find all the cemeteries that David Donahue transcribed.

Once all the cemeteries are online here on this site, you will be able to search from this one site and know what cemetery they are buried in.

 

Eventually, though, I would like all updated information to be posted on the new TnGenWeb searchable site.  This site has the capability to have a GPS map of the cemetery, pictures of the cemetery and tombstones and lots of space for notes and corrections.

 

 

So we will be starting an in-depth examination and cross-reference between the various transcriptions that were done.  This chart is shown below.    When a name of a cemetery is highlighted in purple, that means that the comparison of transcriptions for that cemetery is complete and online on this website.  If you click on the name of that particular cemetery, you will be taken to that cemetery's page.  This will be a work in progress and will undoubtably take a while.   If you are interested in helping with this project, please e-mail me, Jan Monnin, your Perry County Tennessee coordinator.

 

 

 

Cemetery Name

# of known & identified burials

General/River Location

Street location

Older Perry Co TnGenWeb site with cemeteries listed by river  (not searchable) 

New Perry Co TnGenWeb site (searchable)

Bowen’s book of Perry County TN Cemetery Records

Vol 1

Vol 2

The Perry County Quarterly 3(2), June 1997, pp. 1-2 – Forgotten Cemeteries of Perry County

Surveys

Alberson

46

Buffalo River east side, Hurricane Creek

the intersection of Hurricane Creek Road and Old Penny Road

X

X

X (in Vol 1)

 

Bowen  1990s;

v     Donahue 2001;

v     Donahue 2004;

Armstrong

3

Buffalo River east Flatwoods area

on state Highway 13 about 100 yards south of Flatwoods Church of Christ

X

X

 

 

v     Donahue 2004;

Armstrong Horner

14

Tennessee River, Cedar Creek

just east of Horner Church on Clifton Road

X (recorded as "Armstrong Cemetery"

X (recorded as "Armstrong Cemetery")

X (recorded as "Horner Cemetery" in Vol 1)

 

v     Donahue 1987;

v     Bowen 1990s;

v     Donahue 1999;

v     Donahue 2004;

Arnold

2

 

on Hwy 50E 1.2 miles east of the Hickman County line

 

 

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

Ary

200

Buffalo River east side, Sinking Creek

on Ary Cemetery Road just off Sinking Creek Road

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

v     Will Ary 2000;

v     Donahue 2004;

Ayers

14

Tennessee River, Cypress Creek

on highway 412 west of Linden

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

v     Donahue 1999;

v     Donahue 2004;

Barber #1

14

Buffalo River east side, Coon Creek

north side of highway 412 about half way between highway 100 and the Lewis County line

X

X

 X (recorded as Barber #2/Duncan in Vol. 1)

 

v     Bowens 1990s;

v     Donahue 2001;

v     Donahue 2004;

 

Barber and Qualls (Qualls Cem on USGS).  Barber/Copeland on Bowen

96

Buffalo River east side, Coon Creek

north side of highway 412 approximately 4 miles east of highway 100

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

v     Donahue 2001;

v     Donahue 2004;

 

Barber #2

 3

 

North side of Russell Creek Road

 

 

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

Barham

22

Buffalo River west side, Beardstown & DePriest area

from Old Hwy 13 south of the crossroads community of Beardstown

X

X

X

 

v     Donahue 1999;

v     Donahue 2004;

Bates

3

 

near foot of hill leading to the Hinson &
Doyle cemeteries.

 

 

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

Beardstown

52

Buffalo River west side, Beardstown & DePriest area

a block off Old Beardstown Road in Beardstown

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

v     Donahue 2001;

v     Donahue 2004;

Betty Tharp Grave

1

Buffalo River east side, Rockhouse Creek

about 60 yards south southeast of the intersection of the Warren Cemetery access road with Rock Creek Road

X

X

 

 

v     Donahue 2001;

Bee Creek (aka Denton Cem)

42

Tennessee River, Bee Creek

on School Road off Cedar Creek Road.

X

X

X

 

v     Donahue 1987;

v     Bowen 1992;

v     Donahue 1999;

v     Donahue 2004;

Bee Creek #2

0

 

about 500 yards past Bee Creek Cemetery #1 on left
side of road, toward Short Creek

 

 

X

 

v     Richardson 1996;

Bell and Roberson (aka Edwards)

41

Tennessee River, Tom’s Creek

north side of highway 438 about half way between highway 13 and Pineview;  on Hwy 50 west of DePriest Bend

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

v     Donahue 1999;

v     Donahue 2004;

Bethel

539

Buffalo River west side, Linden area

on old highway 13 about 3 miles south of Linden

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen  - 1990s;

v     Donahue 1999;

v     Donahue 2004;

Bible Hill

88

Tennessee River, Deer Creek and Bunker Hill area

at the intersection of Bunker Hill Road and Deer Creek Road

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen  - 1990s;

v     Donahue 2001;

v     Donahue 2004;

Blackwell

0

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

Bone Springs

215

Buffalo River east side,  northeast corner

Old State Highway 13 about 2/10 mile south of the Humphreys County line

X

 

X

 

v     Bowen – 1990s;

v     Donahue – 2000;

v     Donahue – 2004;

 

Brashear (aka Black)

 

 

 
in Linden, one block west of

City Hall.

 

 

X

 

v     WPA 1930s;

v     Bowen 1990s;

Briley

0

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

Britts Chapel

82

Tennessee River, Roan Creek

Roan Creek Road

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen – 1990s;

Broadway

111

Tennessee River, Cedar Creek

Off Cedar Creek Road

X

X

X

 

v     Bowen 1990s;

v     Donahue 1988;

v     Donahue 1989;

v     Donahue 1999;

v     Donahue 2004;

Bromley

18

Buffalo River east Flatwoods area

on State Highway 13 about 150 yards southeast of Flatwoods Cemetery

X