Stovall Cemetery

Don Pinion dcpinion@bellsouth.net
HAYES, Flora McDANIEL b. Mar 9, 1901 d. 1982

Obion Co History, Vol 1.
Caudle, George W, ??
Caudle, Mary Saluda Taylor, ??

Obion Co History, Vol 2. }
Glass, J. C. Jubilee, 29 Dec 1844 - 25 Mar 1922
Glass, Ida V. Crittendon, d. Nov 18, 1912, age 61 years

George
REEVES, Annie E., June 4, 1860 to July 3, 1903
REEVES, Isaac, Apr 23, 1855 to Apr 16, 1904

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Jesse Conn born March 1824 York County, PA - October 1906
Louisa Jane Waddell born 22 October 1835 Maury County, TN - 2 February 1922
M. in Maury County 3 September 1857
Jesse Conn was enlisted December 1, 1863 in Company H, 20th (Russell's) Tennessee Cavalry at Camp Bell, TN by Col. Bell for 3 years.  He had a Bay  horse valued at $800. He states in his pension application #3939 that he was a member of Co H, Capt. James Gardner's 14th Tennessee Cavalry, Col. Russell and was parolled at Paducah, KY in May 1865.  He did not receive a pension. 
From the Dresden Enterprise, October 21 or 26, 1906
Mr. Jessee Conn, an aged and highly respected citizen residing near Mt. Pelia, died one day last week at his home with old age.  Mr. Conn was one of the first settlers in that part on the country and was one of the most substantial, influential men to be found in that whole country.
From the Union City Commercial February 10, 1922 ---  Death Near Rives
Mrs. Louisa Jane Conn was born October 22, 1835, died February 2, 1922.  Her husband, Jesse Conn,died 15 years ago.  She died at the old family home, about two miles southeast of Rives, where she and the family had lived happily for 61 years.  She was the mother of ten children.  The five living are: Harvey Conn, Mayfield, Ky.; C.C. Conn, this city; Jean Conn, of
Missouri; Emmett and Miss Edna, who resided with their mother.  In early life she became a Christian and was for a long time a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.    A kind-hearted, loving mother, good wife and neighbor, after a long and useful life, has gone to receive her reward.  The funeral was conducted from the home Friday morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. J. H. Thomas.  The body was interred at Stovall's Cemetery, the spot selected years ago by her husband. The members of the family have the sympathy of a large number of friends and neighbors.
Note:  Jean Conn was Gene or Eugene Conn.  My grandmother, the youngest child of Jesse and Louisa Jane Conn, was Kate Conn who married James William Bell and is buried beside him in Stovall.  The Waddell name has also been spelled Waddle.  In the 1850 census of Maury County, TN Louisa was listed with her parents William C. Waddell and wife Elizabeth.  On her marriage license she is Louisa J. Waddle and on her death certificate it sayes that her father was William Waddle.
Thank you for all your fine work, Linda Sue Bell Gartin

Nancy Stovall Jones  3 Aug 2002
I may have a bit more information than you on Stovall Cemetary, so I will respond. I was there the 3rd Sunday in May for Decoration Day, at which only 6 showed up this year. It happens every year at 2:00 or 2:30. Families put flowers on graves and a minister has a short talk, with a few songs in memory of those burried there. This cemetary has been a special focus of all my visits back from TX, N.M., AR, etc., as a child because when I saw it, I knew my grandparent's farm was just around the next road to the left, on the right. The old farm house has been replaced by a brick one, and somebody else owns it, but tree is still familiar enought to me. I am not sure the name of the Stovall who donated the land for the cemetary, but it was either 4 generations back from me or the relative of that generation. I am 68 now and recall going to meetings in a "brush arbor" in the summers on visits there. It sat on the right as you turn into the cemetary and had posts that held a brush/stick roof over it, with benches under it for seating. My father, E.W. Stovall preached there at times when I was a child. Others preached there too. There was never a church building on that site. This was used by all, but the Stovalls were mostly Methodists. My father was schooled at Emory & Henry and ordained as a Methodist minister, but later converted and was baptized into the Church of Christ and spent 58 years preaching. He died in 1981 and my mother died 3 days later. They are burried in Stovall Cemetary as are all my relatives going back at least to the fourth generation. If you need to know how to get to the cemetary, I can tell you. It is kept up by a fund which is established at the Rives, TN bank, (1st State Bank, maybe) to which my Aunt Estelle Stovall Walker, made a sizable contribution at her death to endow it, but the interest doesn't quite pay for upkeep, so we donate to that fund for mowing. It is always mowed when I drop by there on trips. Your family names are familiar to me but I have no real information, just memories of Aunt 'Stelle's speaking of the Milners and Palmers.