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Memphis, Tennessee, 
 
 A copy of //lis J^oluiiie will be presented to each lot oxvner, and to those who 
 hereafter become lot oivners in Ebmoood. Other persons may secure copies by apply- 
 ing to the Secretary of the Association, and paying the cost of the Book. 
 
p|ici:rfi of |rtmiuoo(l tiMucfcrg. 
 
 JOSEPH LENOW, President. 
 
 JOHN H. LENOW, Secretary and Treasurer 
 
 SAMUEL W. PHILLIPS. Superintendent. 
 
 Joseph Lenow, James M. Williamson, 
 
 WiLiE B. Miller, J. D. Williams, 
 
 A. N. Edmonds, Charles Kortrecht, 
 
 William B7Hamlix, James T. Leath, 
 CiTARLi:s W. Cover. 
 
ELMAA^OOD: 
 
 CHARTER, 
 
 RULES, REGULATIONS AND BY-LAWS 
 
 I 
 
 OF— I 
 
 Eliriwood Cemetery Association 
 
 OF MEMPHIS. 
 
 History of the Cemetery. 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 ATTRACTIVE MONUMENTS. 
 
 Names of Proprietors. 
 
 Memphis, Tenn : 
 JBoyle &' Chapman, Prinicrs, Publishers and Binders, Wo. 279 Main Street. 
 
 1874. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 (preface, . . . . . . . .5 
 
 Introduction, . . . . . . . 7 
 
 Original Organization, . .... 13 
 
 Act of Incorporation, ...... 16 
 
 Amended Charter, ...... ig 
 
 Acts of the Legislature of Tennessee, . . . 26 
 
 (By=Laivs, ........ 30 
 
 (Reorganization of the Corporation, • ' - 33 
 
 (Regulations for Interments and Funerals, . . 36 
 (Public deceiving Tomb, . . . . -37 
 
 (Rights of Sepulture to Colored People, . . 38 
 
 Tolling the (Bell, 3g 
 
 Office Hours, ....... 3g 
 
 Pules governing Undertakers and others, . . 40 
 
 Purchase of Lots, Price, etc., . ... 40 
 
 Single Graves, ....... 41 
 
 (Brick Graves, ....... 42 
 
 Foundations for Headstones and Monuments, prices, etc. 42 
 
 Pules concerning Improvements on Lots, . . 43 
 
 Form of (Deed, ....... 4^ 
 
 Form of Secretary's Order, . ... 46 
 
 Ptdes and Pegulations for Lot=H older s and Visitors, 4J 
 
 Form of Tickets of Admission, etc., . . ' 5^ 
 
Contents. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 (Perpdual Fund to Keep Lots in Order , 
 
 How to Secure Tickets of Admission ^ . 
 
 How to Care for Lots and Monuments, 
 
 Mode of Conducting (Business, . 
 
 A Catalogue of (Books, etc., 
 
 CASH SYSTEM, .... 
 
 Abstract of Corporate (kights. 
 
 How to (keach Elmwood, 
 
 A Map of the Cemetery, 
 
 (Perpetual Fund, how created. 
 
 Society Lots, ..... 
 
 General Facts and description of El?nwood 
 
 The Future of the Cemetery, 
 
 General Suggestions, .... 
 
 The Old Morris Cemetery, 
 
 Caution to (Depredators, 
 
 Trees, ....... 
 
 What (Poets and (People have Said, 
 Epitaphs, . . . . . ■ . 
 
 Sub=divisions of Elmwood, . 
 Monuments, ..... 
 
 (Biographical Sketches Alphabetically Arranged, 
 Mortuary Statistics, .... 
 
 The Confederate (bead, 
 
 JJames of Confederate and Federal Soldiers 
 
 List of (Proprietors, .... 
 
 '' Curbing' 
 
 (Regulations, 
 
 Erratum. — For Shoemaker, on page 150, read Shoemake. 
 
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Men write histories of living cities. The din that is 
 never silenced, toil that knows no rest, crime that stalks 
 abroad at night, and wretched poverty in rags, and 
 wealth arrayed in splendor and beauty — all these are 
 described in books. Why not write the *stor)' of the 
 Silent City of the Dead? Why not tell who and what 
 they were, and what they did — they who rest, each in 
 his "narrow house," in dreamless, painless repose? It 
 is well too, to turn backward the tide of oblivion that 
 came down upon us with war, and obliterated memories 
 of good and great men who had almost lived and died 
 in vain. For such a purpose, in part, this modest 
 publication is made. Its defects are many. Its state- 
 ments are necessarily most brief. This resulted from 
 the fact that there was such a number to be sketched, 
 .and from the fact, almost inexplicable, that friends and 
 
VI Preface. 
 
 relatives of the dead refused or neglected to turnish the- 
 information often sought at their hands. It was for these 
 reasons absolutely impossible to advert, in all instances, 
 to marriages, and the worth of women whose excellence, 
 never questioned, could only be asserted. In most 
 instances the public is indebted for personal descriptions 
 and facts, affecting the dead, to the memory of the writer, 
 who confesses, after a residence of a quarter of a century 
 in Memphis, that he has more friends in the City of the 
 Dead than of the living — in Elmwood than in Memphis,- 
 
f ntvotlttctiou. 
 
 The word burial is derived from a Teutonic source, 
 and signifies to hide or conceal. In its famihar use, it is 
 now ahnost exchisively appropriated to disposing of the 
 dead, by depositing the remains in mother earth. Among 
 civiHzed nations the final di:-:posal of those w^ho have been 
 loved and lost has always been a matter of deep concern 
 to the living. Hence arose funeral customs, accompa- 
 nied often with too much pomp and display ; and hence, 
 too, the erection of tasteful monuments and costly mau- 
 soleums to perpetuate the memory of the distinguished 
 dead. None but barbarous nations are indifferent to 
 the burial of the dead, leaving their remains exposed to 
 the sight cf the living, to be devoured as prey by vul- 
 tures and carnivorous beasts. 
 
 Three modes have been generally used to hide or con- 
 ceal the dead from the sight of the living. As. 
 
 1. Inclosing the body in earth or stone. 
 
 2. Incremation, or burning the bod), and entombing 
 the ashes or cinders ; and 
 
 3. Embalming. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 Among the Greeks the corpses that were not burnt 
 were burled in coffins, which were made of various ma- 
 terials, but usually of baked clay (Jcn'-a-cotta) or earth- 
 enware. Those who were buried were placed in a 
 coffin, which was frequently made of stone, and some- 
 times of that from Assos, in Troas, which consumed 
 all the body, with the exception of the teeth, in forty 
 days, whence it obtained the name of "Sarcophagus" 
 (^ flesh catcr^, which was gradually extended to other 
 stone coffins. The Egyptians practiced embalming, 
 and cultivated the art to such an extent that " Egyptian 
 corpses, as inoffensive as any article of wood or stone, 
 are scattered over Europe in museums, and are even 
 to be found as curiosities in private houses." As an 
 instance of comparatively modern embalming, it may 
 be mentioned here, " that in the vault of the monastery 
 of Kreuzberg, at Bonn, the monks have been success- 
 ively preserved in their costume for centuries." The 
 Scriptures give well-known examples of burials in each 
 of the methods specified. Abraham buried out of his 
 sight the body of Sarah in the cave of Macpelah ; the 
 bodies of Saul and his three sons were recovered, after 
 the disastrous battle on Mount Gilboa, and burnt at 
 Jabesh ; and Jacob and Joseph were embalmed in Egypt. 
 Not to receive the rieht of burial in some one of the 
 ways mentioned, was regarded among the Jews as a sad 
 calamity, or as a mark of scorn and derision. Hence 
 Jeremiah prophesied of wicked Jehoiakim — " He shall 
 be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth 
 beyond the gates of Jerusalem." 
 
 It was the custom of the Jews to bury without the 
 gates of their cities. The Greeks also generally buried 
 the dead outside their towns, as it was thought that their 
 
Introduction. 
 
 presence in the city brought polhition on the hving. At 
 Athens the dead were, at an early period, buried in their 
 own houses ; but, in historical times, none were allowed 
 to be buried within the city. Lycurgus, with the view 
 of removing all superstitions relative to the dead, allowed 
 burials in Sparta. Persons who possessed lands in 
 Attica were often buried in them ; but the tombs were 
 mostly by the side of roads, and near the gates of the 
 city. The Romans, in the most ancient times, buried 
 their dead, although they adopted the custom of burning 
 them at an early date. The urns which contained the 
 ashes of the dead were placed in sepulchres, which were 
 mostly outside of, though in a few instances, we read of 
 them being buried within the city. The Etruscan urns 
 were very rich in art, and were made of terra-cotta, or 
 cooked earth. Some of these have been found in Etru- 
 ria so large that they appear to have been coffins for 
 containing the whole body.* The places for burial at 
 Rome were either public or private ; the public were of 
 two kinds, one for illustrious citizens, who were buried 
 at the public expense, and the other for the poor, who 
 were thrown into pits or caverns. Private places for 
 burial were usually by the sides of roads leading into 
 Rome, and on some of these, such as the Appian Way, 
 the tombs formed an almost uninterrupted street for 
 many miles from the gates of the city. The eye of the 
 wayfarer was often arrested with the epitaph — Mora7'e 
 viator ! which is the " Stop, traveler! " etc., of our day. 
 
 Upon the introduction of Christianity into the world, 
 the custom of burying in churches and churchyards soon 
 
 * " Vessels of this kind were found in the Valley of the ScamauHer by some British officers, 
 while spending their leisure time after the seige of Sebastopol, upon the ground supposed to have 
 been occupied by the besiegers of Troy." — Cham F.ncy. 
 
lO Introduction. 
 
 arose among Christian nations. This practice seems to 
 have originated in a superstitious faith in the sanctity of 
 saintly rehcs. These rehcs were buried near or under 
 the altars of churches, which were consecrated each to 
 the sacred memory of some patron saint. Then, natu- 
 rally, arose a strong desire to be buried near these sacred 
 remains, and close to the consecrated spot. Hence 
 the origin of burials in churches and churchyards, the 
 most eminent for piety and rank being buried in the 
 former, and the more humble multitude in the latter. 
 
 It requires no unusual amount of human reason to see 
 that the crowding of dead bodies into the churches and 
 churchyards of populous towns and cities must have soon 
 made these mortuary receptacles offensive and unhealthy. 
 Whoever would roll back the curtain of Time and con- 
 template the manner of interments in London, a little 
 more than two hundred years ago, can have his curiosity 
 gratified in the following extracts, taken from the cele- 
 brated diary of Samuel Pepys. That quaint old author 
 made the following entry on the i8th of March. 1663 : 
 
 " To church, and, with the grave-maker, chose a place 
 for my brother to lie in, just under my mother's pew. 
 But to see how a man's bones are at the mercy of such a 
 lellow, that, for six pence, he would (as his own words 
 were), ' I will justle them together, but I will make room 
 for hini ; ' speaking of the fullness of the middle aisle, 
 where he was to lie." 
 
 Again, upon the subsidence of the plague in London, 
 he records, the 30th January. 1665-6, thus : 
 
 " This is the first time I have been in the church (St. 
 Olive's, Hart street), since I left London for the plague, 
 and it frightened me indeed to go through the church 
 more than I thought it could ha\e done, to see so many 
 
Iiitroducliou. 1 1< 
 
 graves lie so hig-h upon the churchyards, where people 
 have been buried of the plague. I was much troubled 
 at it, and do not think to go through it again a good 
 while. * * * J f^j-i(^ many about the city that live 
 near the churchyards solicitous to have the churchyards 
 covered with lime, and I think it is needful, and ours, I 
 hope, will be done." 
 
 Such feculent reservoirs of disease, located in popu- 
 lous town and cities, must have been a prolific source of 
 those dreadful scourges which have so often, in the past, 
 visited and ravaged the human race. That an advanced 
 state of civilization should have so long tolerated the 
 custom of intramural interments, gives cause for pro- 
 found astonishment ; and affords sad proof how^ difficult 
 it is to eradicate customs founded on religious preju- 
 dices. It was not until 1854, when Mr. Chadwick, and' 
 other sanitary reformers, attacked the time-honored sys- 
 tem of interments within city churchyards, that it re- 
 ceived a check in England. This salutary movement 
 resulted in the passage of several stringent Burial Acts 
 in England, which have closed the graveyards in towns 
 and cities for burial purposes, and placed interments in; 
 open cemeteries under the control of sanitary boards. 
 
 The cemetery system (the word cemetery, meaning in 
 Greek a sleeping-chamber^ has now, happily for the 
 world, been almost universally adopted in Europe and' 
 America as a substitute for city graveyards. Though, 
 of recent origin, yet scarcely any important city or town 
 in this country or in Europe is without one or more of 
 such burial-grounds, more or less extensive, and more or 
 less ornamented, or tastefully arranged. Being associ- 
 ated with fine natural scenery, beautiful trees and flow- 
 ers and w^orks of monumental art, they afford an attract- 
 ive place for recreation, and thus tend rather to improve 
 
1 2 Introduction. 
 
 than to injure the health of the Hving. The aesthetic 
 art has been cultivated so successfully in beautifying 
 many of the American cemeteries as to make their ap- 
 pearance so attractive as almost to disarm Death of his 
 sting and terror. 
 
 The best fashion ever set by the city of Paris, to be 
 followed by the cities of Europe and the United States, 
 was the establishing of Pere-la-Chaise, the oldest and 
 most celebrated of European cemeteries. This was in 
 1804. Paris has now fifteen cemeteries ; and she doubt- 
 less adopted this' plan of burial from the Turks, whose 
 beautiful burial-grounds, extending over large tracts of 
 country, adorned with cedars, firs, and other evergreens, 
 have long been the admiration of all foreigners who have 
 visited them. 
 
 A word of admonition, in conclusion. Of all the en- 
 emies of man. Death is the most inexorable. He spares 
 neither sex nor age, nor rank nor condition. Could the 
 "speechless ages" of the past enumerate their dead, 
 the number would far exceed the census of the livingf. 
 The tumuli, barrows, and cromlechs — burial-mounds of 
 a prehistoric age — which are found all over the world 
 (10,000 of them being in the State of Ohio alone), show 
 that the earth itself is but a vast cemetery. As the 
 proverb says — "the young may soon die, but the old 
 mnsty Therefore, at any time it niay be said of any 
 one living — abiit ad viajorcs, or, "he has joined the 
 majority." Let no one, then, live as an example of 
 the truth of what Horace said of some of the Romans : 
 " You build houses of five hundred by a hundred feet, 
 forgetting that of six by two." The old familiar epitaph 
 teaches a useful lesson : 
 
 "As I am, so must you l)e; 
 Therefore prepare to follow inc." 
 
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ORIGINAL ORGANIZATION 
 
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 On the 28th of August, 1852, the following named 
 gentlemen, fifty in number, each subscribed for one share 
 of $500 in the capital stock of Elmwood Cemetery 
 Association. The whole capital thus accumulated was 
 $25,000. The shareholders proposed to establish a 
 proper Cemetery in the vicinity of Memphis. Their 
 •names are as follows : 
 
 ALLEN, THOS. H. 
 AVEKY, W. T. 
 AYKES, T. S. 
 BAXTER, FRED. 
 BOOTH, W. A. 
 BRINKLEY, R. C. 
 BAILEY, SYLVESTER, 
 CARNES, JAMES A. 
 CHAMBLISS, THOMAS, 
 CHURCH, CHARLES B. 
 EOWLER, JOHN W. 
 
 GUION. H. L. 
 GRIFFIN G, J. C. 
 GRAHAJSr, B. 
 GOFF, J. D. 
 GRAY, J. H. 
 HOWARD, .1. M. 
 HOPKINS, A. M. 
 LEATHERMAN, D. M. 
 LENOW, JOSEPH, 
 .AIILLER, W. B. 
 MONTGOMERY, A. J. 
 
;3[4 Origi)ial Orga}iizatio]i. 
 
 MEKRILL, A. P. SHELBY, JOHN, 
 
 M08ELY, .1. B. BAFFAllANS, J. L. 
 
 MARTIN, JOHN, TOWNSEND, DAVID H. 
 
 MAYDWELL, C. C. TATE, SAMUEL, 
 
 ORNE, RICH'D E. TURLEY, THOMAS J. 
 
 OWEN, MILES, WALKER. SAMUEL P. 
 
 PENN, JAMES, WILLIAMS, JOSIAH D. 
 
 PATTISON, GEORGK, WILLIAMSON, JAMES M. 
 
 PARK, DAVID, WILLIAMS, JOSEPH R. 
 PARKER, O. B. • WALKER. HENRY C. 
 
 RUFFIN, AVILLIAM, ,- WATKLNS, E. F. 
 
 RHODES, VERNON, WILKERSON, T. W. 
 
 SMITH, GEORGE W. WHIPPLE, ANSON. 
 STEWART, E. P. 
 SMITH, P. W. 
 
 At the first meeting of these stockholders, Sept. 1 1 , 
 1852, Dr. A. P. Merrill, of whom this volume speaks in 
 another place, was Chairman, and E. P. Stewart Secre- 
 tary. Messrs. A. P. Merrill. J. W. Fowler, J. M. Wil- 
 liamson, Wm. Riiffin, and D. M, Leatherman were 
 authorized to purchase land to be used as a Cemetery. 
 These gentlemen reported, Sept. 25th, 1852, that they 
 had bought forty acres, lying between the old Fort 
 Pickering and LaGrange Railway and Walker Avenue. 
 
 The permanent organization of the dissociation was 
 made October 9th, 1852. and the following named gen- 
 tlemen were elected Officers and Managers : Davidson 
 M. Leatherman, President; John W. Fowler, Treasurer ; 
 James M. Williamson, Secretary; and D. M. Leather- 
 man, J. W. Fowler. J. M. Williamson. Wilie B. Miller 
 and William Ruffin, Managers. 
 
 The following named gentlemen have filled the posi- 
 tions defined below since 1852 : 
 
 Pjresi dents: 
 
 D. M. LEATHERMAN, Elected October 9, 1852. 
 
 E. P. STEWART, Elected ]\[arch 19, 1855. 
 JOSEPH LENOW, Elected February 10, 1859. 
 
Orioijial Organization. 15 
 
 S K c R i-:t a r I !■: s a m > T r !•: a s u r y. r s : 
 
 ,I()IIN AV. FOWLER, JOSEPH LENOW, 
 
 J. M. WILLIAMSON, W. E. MILTON, 
 
 S. O. r.ALLAllD, WAI. UUFFIN, Jr., 
 
 JOHN II. LENOW. 
 
 S IM ' I-: la N T !■: x i > e n ts : 
 
 JAMES STEWAliT, THOMAS STEWART, 
 
 JTRGEN JESSIN, CHARLES HAMILTON, 
 
 SAMUEL W. PHILLIPS. 
 
 Manaciers : 
 
 D. M. LEATHEPvMAN, J. C. GRIFFING, 
 J. W. FOWLER, JOHN SHELBY, 
 J. M. WILLIAMSON, JOSEPH LENOW, 
 W. B. MTLLEPv, W. B. HAMLIN, 
 WM. EUFFIN, F. W. SMITH, 
 
 E. P. STEWAPvT, J. D. EUFFIN, 
 THOMAS H. ALLEN, A. N. EDMONDS, 
 
 J. D. WILLIAMS. 
 
Act of Incorporation. 
 
 An Act to Incorporate Elniwood Cemetery, near Memphis. 
 
 ( Passed February 13th, 1S54. ) 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
 of the State of Tennessee. That Davidson M. Leather- 
 man, James M. Williamson, John W. Fowler, Wilie B. 
 Miller, William Ruffin, and such other persons as have 
 subscribed, or may subscribe, a certain indenture of date 
 the 14th of December, 1852, defining the objects of this 
 association, as stockholders of same, which said inden- 
 ture has been duly registered in the Register's office of 
 Shelby county, and State of Tennessee, in Book No. 
 13, pages 109, no, III, etc., on the 15th of February, 
 1853, or such other persons as may be hereafter admit- 
 ted as stockholders, in pursuance of the by-laws of this 
 association, be, and they are hereby made, a body poli- 
 tic and corporate in law, under the name and style of 
 "The Elmwood Cemetery," and by that name shall be 
 able and capable in law to have and use a common seal ; 
 to sue and be sued ; plead and be impleaded, and to do 
 all such other things as are incident to incorporations. 
 
 Sec. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall 
 be divided into shares of five hundred dollars each, and 
 
Act of Incorporation. 1 7 
 
 shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transfer- 
 able on the books of the corporation in such manner as 
 said corporation shall by its laws direct. 
 
 Sec. 3. The five persons named above shall be man- 
 agers of the said Elmwood Cemetery, and shall have 
 power to lay out and ornament the grounds, to dispose 
 of and arrange burial lots, to appoint suitable officers 
 and agents, and fix their compensations and duties, to 
 make such rules and regulations from time to time for 
 the government of lot-holders and visitors of the Cem- 
 etery, as they may deem necessary ; and shall be charged 
 with the general care and management of the property and 
 grounds of the company ; and by, and with the consent 
 of a majority of the stockholders present at any general 
 meeting of the same, make such By-Laws, Rules and 
 Regulations relative to the duty and election of Mana- 
 o-ers and Directors, and the general government of the 
 affairs of the corporation, as may be deemed expedient. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it enacted, That said corporation shall 
 and may take and hold real estate, and may sell and 
 dispose of the same, to be used exclusively as a Cem- 
 etery, or a place for the burial of the dead, and such 
 personal estate, and no more, as may be necessary for 
 the purposes of this incorporation ; and the lots and 
 plat, when conveyed to individual proprietors for the 
 purposes aforesaid, shall be exempt from assessment or 
 taxation, and not liable to be sold on execution, or to be 
 applied to the payment of debts by assignment under 
 insolvent laws. 
 
 Sec. 5. An annual meeting of said corporation shall 
 be held at such time and place as the By-Laws shall 
 direct. The Managers or Directory shall make report 
 
1 8 Elmwood Cemetery 
 
 to the corporation, at each annual meeting-, of their 
 doings, and of the management and condition of the 
 corporation. 
 
 Sec. 6. No roads or tracks shall hereafter be opened 
 through the land of said corporation, except by and with 
 the consent of the corporation. 
 
 Sec. 7. The said corporation may take and hold any 
 grant, donation or bequest of property, upon trust, to 
 apply the same, or the income thereof, under the order 
 of the Board of Managers, for the improvement or em- 
 bellishment of the said Cemetery, or any lot or structure 
 or ornament thereon, consistent with the design and 
 purposes of this Act, and according to the terms of such 
 grant, donation or bequest. 
 
 William H. Wisener, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 Edwin Polk, 
 
 Speaker of the Senate.- 
 
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Amended Charter. 
 
 JULY 7th, 1873. 
 
 THRKE-FOTJRTHS OF THE STOCKHOLDERS AUTHORIZED TO TRANSFER CONTROL. 
 OF THE CEMETERY TO THE LOT OWNERS. 
 
 Section i . It shall be lawful for the holders of shares 
 of stock in Elmwood Cemetery, in Shelby county, near 
 the city of Memphis, to surrender and extinguish their 
 stock in such manner as the Board of Managers have or 
 may prescribe ; and, upon three-fourths of the stock being 
 so surrendered and extinguished, all persons who are, 
 or shall hereafter become, proprietors of burial lots in 
 said Cemetery, conveyed to them by the corporation, 
 shall be and become members of the corporation. 
 
 NINE TRUSTEES SUPPLANT, AND ARE SL^BSTITUTED FOR, THE HOARD OF 
 
 MANAGERS. 
 
 Sec. 2. Upon three-fourths of the stock being so 
 surrendered and extinguished, the control and manage- 
 ment of the corporation, its estate, property and affairs 
 shall pass and be transferred from the Board of Mana- 
 gers elected by the stockholders, as the corporate affairs 
 
2 o Elmwood Cemetery 
 
 liave heretofore been conducted, to a Board of Nine 
 Trustees, to be selected as hereinafter provided, 
 
 MODE OF OUOANIZATION, AND NAMES AND POWERS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF 
 TRUSTEES, AND OF VOTERS IN THEIR ELECTION. 
 
 Sec. 3. The five persons now constituting the Board 
 of Managers, to-wit : Joseph Lenow, James M. Wil- 
 hamson, WiHe B. Miller, Josiah D. Williams and A. N. 
 Edmonds, together with Charles Kortrecht, William B. 
 Hamlin, James T. Leath and Charles W. Coyer, all 
 being present lot-owners in the Cemetery, shall be and 
 constitute the first Board of Trustees, and take the 
 charge and administration of the business, property and 
 affairs of the corporation. They shall elect one of their 
 own number President of the Board of Trustees, and 
 such other officers and committees as the business of the 
 corporation or the By-Laws may require. They shall 
 also organize themselves — by lot or otherwise, as they 
 may determine — into three equal classes, three in each 
 class. The first class so organized shall go out of office, 
 and their successors be elected, on the first Monday of 
 March, 1876; the second class the first Monday of 
 March, 1878, and the third class the first Monday of 
 March, 1880 ; and there shall be an election on the first 
 Monday in March, 1876, and thenceforward every two 
 years, to elect three members of the Board of Trustees, 
 all for the period of six years, in the place of those 
 whose terms will then expire ; but those whose terms 
 expire will hold over until their successors are elected, and 
 will always be eligible for a re-election, if owners of 
 burial lots in the Cemetery, each containing not less 
 than three hundred surface square feet of ground ; and 
 no person will be eligible at any time for the office of 
 Trustee unless he is the owner of a burial lot in the 
 
Avioidcd Charter. 21 
 
 Cemetery of not less than three hundred square feet, 
 surface measure. 
 
 ELKCTIONS now HELD AND QUALIFICATIONS OK VOTKKS. 
 
 Sec. 4. Notice of the time and place of all elections 
 of Trustees shall be given in one or more Memphis city 
 papers, for at least ten days before the election. The 
 election of Trustees shall be by ballot, and every owner, 
 in his own or her own right of a burial lot in the Cem- 
 etery, of not less than three hundred surface square feet, 
 shall be entitled to one vote, and should several persons 
 jointly ovv'n one such lot, they may designate, by proxy, 
 one of their number, or any third person, to cast the 
 vote for the ownership of such lot. 
 
 now RECALCITRANT STOCK HOLT) KRS MAY B K MANAGED BY LOT-OWN EliS. 
 
 Should it happen, after the affairs of the corporation 
 have passed into the control of the Board of Trustees, 
 that any owner or owners of stock in the corporation, 
 as it now exists, should refuse to surrender his or her 
 stock to be extinguished, on the terms offered by the 
 Board of Managers, he or they will be entitled, in the 
 election of Trustees, to cast one-fiftieth part of the bal- 
 lots or votes for each share of stock so outstanding, so 
 long as such stock shall be and remain outstanding, not 
 surrendered nor extinguished, and at any future time he 
 or they may surrender his or their stock to be extin- 
 guished on the same terms, and at the same price paid 
 to those whose stock is now or first surrendered. 
 
 HOW TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED AND VACANCIES IN THE BOARD riLLKD. 
 
 Sec. 5. Vacancies in the Board of Trustees, occurring 
 by death, removal, or otherwise, shall be filled by the 
 Board for the unexpired term; and if, at any regular 
 
22 Elmwood Cemetery 
 
 election for Trustees, at least one-third in number of 
 those entitled to vote shall not vote in person or by 
 proxy, then the election shall be held to have failed, and 
 the Trustees to be elected shall be elected or chosen b)- 
 those holding over, or a majority of them, and in all 
 cases Trustees shall hold over until their successors are 
 elected, and consent to serve or accept the office. If for 
 any reason an election is not held at the time designated 
 by the Amended Charter, the Board of Trustees may 
 appoint another day for such election, when the required 
 notice having been given, the election will have the same 
 force and effect as if held at the time designated hereby. 
 
 OLD HY LAWS AND CHARTER, NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THIS, REMAIN IN 
 
 FORCE. 
 
 Sec. 6. The present Charter and By-Laws of Elm- 
 wood Cemetery, not inconsistent with this Amended 
 Charter, will remain in force until rejected or amended, 
 but two-thirds of the Board of Trustees may amend or 
 repeal the By-Laws, or adopt new ones at pleasure. 
 
 A QUORUM. 
 
 Sec. 7. Five Trustees will constitute a quorum lor 
 the transaction of business. 
 
 tERMS OF OFFICE AND ELIOIIULITY. 
 
 "Sec. 8. The terms of office of the President and 
 other officers of the Board of Trustees, created hereby, 
 shall be the same as the Board electing them, the first 
 President holding until the election of three new Trus- 
 tees In March, 1876, and after that the terms shall be 
 regularly for two years, and until each new election of 
 three Trustees ; and officers will always hold over until 
 their successors are elected and qualified, and all the 
 
A7nended CJiartei\ 
 
 officers will be eligible for re-election. Nothing in this 
 section shall prevent or interfere with the right of the 
 Board of Trustees to regulate the employment and dis- 
 charge of servants and employes, by By-Laws or other- 
 •wise, as they think best. 
 
 PURCHASE AXD SALE OF MORRIS CEMETERY CONFIRMED. 
 
 Sec. 9. The sale of the property in the city of Mem- 
 phis, heretofore known as Morris Cemetery, and now 
 held in trust by Joseph Lenow for the benefit of Elm- 
 wood Cemetery, to raise the means to purchase and 
 extinguish the stock in Elmwood Cemetery, is hereby 
 ratified and approved, and the Board of Managers or 
 Trustees of the corporation, whichever may be acting 
 at the time of making the conveyance thereof, is hereby 
 authorized and empowered to bind the corporation, — 
 Elmwood Cemetery, — by all such reasonable covenants 
 and conditions as are needful to make an advantageous 
 .sale. 
 
 ■WHOLE INCOME DEVOTED TO BEAUTIFYING ELMWOOD. 
 
 Sec. 10. All the assets and property of said Elm- 
 wood Cemetery, over the amount necessary to purchase 
 .and extinguish the stock in the corporation, and all pro- 
 ceeds of the future sales of burial lots, and other means 
 which the corporation may at any time be owner of, over 
 what is needful to pay the debts of the Cemetery, proper 
 salaries of officers, agents, and pay employes, shall be 
 devoted to repairs, improvement and adornment of the 
 Cemetery, under the direction and control of the Board 
 •of Trustees, and to procuring additional grounds, if the 
 Board of Trustees shall at any time deem it desirable to 
 enlarge the Cemetery, and no private profits shall be 
 jnade by lot-owners or other corporators therefrom. 
 
24 Elmzvood Cemetery. 
 
 DONATIONS AND LEGACIES AUTHORIZED TO HE RECEIVED, AND A PERPETUAL 
 
 FUND CREATED. 
 
 Sec. II. The Board of Trustees may, by By-Laws, 
 or other Rules and Regulations, provide for receiving 
 donations, gifts, or legacies in trust, the principal or 
 income to be perpetually devoted to the adornment and 
 improvement of the Cemetery, or such parts of it, or 
 objects in it, as the donors may direct, or to the enlarge- 
 ment of the grounds ; and all such donations, gifts or 
 legacies, which the Board of Trustees may accept, shall 
 be applied and used as directed by the donors at the time 
 of making the same, not being inconsistent with the 
 Rules, Regulations and By-Laws of the Cemetery. The 
 Board of Trustees may also provide a perpetual fund by 
 investing funds, the proceeds of sales of burial lots, or 
 other income, in permanent and safe securities, and the 
 income only to be used in paying the expenses and 
 keeping up the improvements, repairs and adornments- 
 of the Cemetery. 
 
 SUPREME POWER OF TRUt^TEES OVER LOTS. 
 
 Sec. 12. The Board of Trustees of said Elm wood- 
 Cemetery shall have full power to regulate and control 
 the growth, the removal and management of forest trees, 
 and other objects of ornament and adornment of the 
 Cemetery, on the lots sold, as well as those not sold, and 
 lot-owners shall have no rieht to cut or remove forest or 
 other trees from their respective lots without the consent 
 of the Board of Trustees of the Cemetery. The Board 
 of Trustees shall have full power, by By-laws, as by other 
 rules and regulations, to control the growth and removal 
 of forest trees and other adornments of the Cemetery 
 on lots sold, as well as elsewhere, with a view to the 
 beauty and adornment of the whole Cemetery. 
 
Amended Charter, 2 cr. 
 
 SANCTION OF THE CIIANCKRY COURT. 
 
 All of which is finally ordered and decreed, and the 
 foregoing twelve sections are hereby declared and de- 
 creed to be in full force as a part of the Charter of said 
 Elmwood Cemetery, and all the provisions of the original 
 Charter, in conflict or inconsistent therewith, are hereby- 
 repealed, annulled and rescinded. 
 
 STATE OF TENNESSEE 
 
 Shelbv County. 
 
 '\ss. 
 
 I, Edmund A. Cole, Clerk and Master of the First 
 Chancery Court of Shelby County, do hereby certify- 
 that the foregoing comprises a full, true and perfect 
 transcript of a decree had in a certain cause lately- 
 pending herein, wdierein Joseph Lenow and others are 
 petitioners ex parte, as the same appears of record and 
 on file in my office. 
 
 In Witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and afifix 
 the seal of said Court, at office, in the city of Memphis., 
 this nth day of July, 1873. 
 
 Edmund A. Cole, Clerk and Master. 
 By R. J. Black, D. C. and M. 
 
ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF TEiNNESSEE 
 
 EXEMPTINGJ- 
 
 The Properly of EInwood Association Trom Taxation. 
 
 Be a furtJier enacted, That all lots and grounds held 
 and owned by the Elmwood Cemetery, at Memphis, and 
 the lots and ei'ounds of individuals or societies therein, 
 and all implements or other property belonging to said 
 Cemetery ; also, donations made to adorn, beautify, or 
 keep the same in repair, or the private lots therein, shall 
 be exempt from taxation or assessment, either State or 
 local. 
 
 Passed February 15th, 1869. 
 
 F. S. Richards, Speaker of Senate. 
 P. P. C. Nelson, Speaker of House. 
 
 AN ACT TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT FOR THE PKOTECTION OF 
 CEMETERIES IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. 
 
 Section i . Be it enacted by the Genei'al Assembly of 
 Ihe State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any 
 person to discharge any firearms, unless authorized to 
 *do so by the managers, trustees, or superintendent, upon, 
 
Act for the Protection of Cemeteries. 2j 
 
 ■or over the grounds of any cemetery, now established, 
 ■or that may hereafter be established, in this State, or 
 within one hundred yards of such cemetery, unless it be 
 upon his own land, and not then during the passage of 
 any funeral procession to or from said cemetery. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That no person shall 
 willfully disturb or disquiet any cemetery in the State by 
 noise, profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or 
 any other act, at. on, or within one hundred yards of any 
 ■cemetery. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it firther enacted, That no person shall 
 willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any 
 tomb, monument, or grave-stone, or other structure 
 placed in any cemetery in the State, or any fence, rail- 
 ing, or other work for the protection or ornament of any 
 cemetery, or any cemetery lot within a cemetery, nor 
 shall willfully destroy, cut, break, or injure any tree, 
 shrub or plant within the limits of any cemetery in this 
 .State. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all managers or 
 trustees of any cemetery in this State shall have full 
 power to adopt and establish all rules and regulations 
 necessary for the good government, order and discipline 
 •of the cemetery under their charge and keeping ; Pro- 
 mded, No such rule or regulation shall be in conflict with 
 any law of this State. Such rules and regulations shall 
 be posted in a conspicuous place at each entrance of said 
 ■cemetery. It shall be the duty of the day or night 
 watchman appointed by the managers and trustees of 
 said cemetery, to notify all offenders who violate any of 
 the rules at, in, or within one hundred yards of said 
 
28 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 cemetery, and if they will not cease from said violation, 
 to arrest them as by authority conferred in section 5 of 
 this Act. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it fii7'ther e7Lacted, That it shall be lawful 
 for the managers or trustees of any cemetery in this 
 State to appoint, at their own expense, as many day and 
 night watchmen of their grounds as they may deem 
 expedient ; and such w^atchmen, and also all of their 
 superintendents, gardeners, agents and gate-keepers 
 stationed on said grounds, are hereby authorized to take 
 and subscribe, before any mayor or magistrate of the 
 town or county where such cemetery is situated, an oath 
 of office similar to the oath required by law of constables, 
 and upon the taking of such oath, such watchmen, 
 superintendents, gardeners, agents and gate-keepers 
 shall have, exercise and possess all the powers of police 
 officers within said cemetery, and within one hundred 
 yards of said cemetery grounds, and shall have power 
 to arrest all persons engaged in violating any of the 
 sections of this Act ; and shall have full power to bring 
 such persons so offending before any court or magistrate 
 of competent jurisdiction, to be dealt with according to 
 law. i\ll persons so appointed shall wear a star or 
 medal to designate their authority as watchmen. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted. That in case any 
 person shall offend or violate any or either of the 
 sections aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, before any 
 court or magistrate of competent jurisdiction, be fined 
 in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and such 
 offender shall also be liable in an action of trespass in 
 the name of said managers or trustees, to pay all such 
 
Act for the Protection of Cemeteries. 29 
 
 damages as have been occasioned by his or her unlawful 
 act or acts, which money when recovered shall be applied 
 by said managers or trustees to the reparation of the 
 -property injured or destroyed. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it ftrtJier enacted. That all Acts hereto- 
 fore passed in conflict w'ith this Act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 8. i?^ zV /i^r//z^r ^;/«<fW, That the public welfare 
 requiring it, this Act shall take effect and be in full force 
 from and after the passage thereof. 
 
 Passed March 21, 1873. 
 
 W. S. McGaugiiev, Speaker of House. 
 A. T. Lacev, Speaker of Senate. 
 
 Approved March 24, 1873. 
 
 J(»ii.\ C. Brown, Governor. 
 
 I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an Act of 
 the General Assembly, the original of which is now on 
 ^le in my office. This March 28, 1873. 
 
 Chas. N. Giisp.s. Secretary of State. 
 
BY-LAWS 
 
 OF 
 
 ELMWOOD CEMETERY. 
 
 Section i. A Board of Managers, consisting of five, 
 shall be elected annually by ballot, at a general meetings 
 of the stockholders, to be held on first Monday of March, 
 in each year, and as often as any vacancy may occur in 
 the Board of Managers, said vacancy shall be filled by 
 the Board at any stated or called meeting. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Managers, when elected, shall 
 appoint, of their number, a President, and also elect a 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 Sec. 3. The President shall preside at all the meet- 
 ings of the Board of Managers, and if he be absent, the 
 Board shall elect a chairman, who shall preside at the 
 meeting for which he shall be appointed. The presiding 
 officer, in case of an equal division of the Board, shall 
 have a casting vote. 
 
By-Laws. 3 1 
 
 Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall act as Secretary, and 
 keep minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Man- 
 agers. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall have custody of the seal 
 of the Corporation ; of its funds, vouchers, books of 
 account, papers, documents and effects. It shall be his 
 duty to collect and receive all the money, and to deposit, 
 pay, disburse, and otherwise appropriate its funds, as 
 directed or authorized by the Board of Managers. Also, 
 to render annually an account of his receipts and 
 expenditures, and to furnish a general statement of the 
 affairs of the Company ; which accounts and statements 
 shall be rendered at the stated or any special meeting of 
 the Board of Managers next preceding the annual meet- 
 ing; which shall be examined, audited and reported on 
 by a committee appointed by the Board of Managers, 
 
 Sec. 6. All funds of the Corporation shall be depos- 
 ited to the credit of the Company, in such bank as shall 
 be designated by the President, and the same shall be 
 drawai out only by checks of the Treasurer, counter- 
 signed by the President or Chairman of the Board. 
 
 Sec. 7. The President shall be charged with the gen- 
 eral care and management of the property and grounds 
 of the Company, and shall have power to make contracts 
 for the improvement and embellishment of the said 
 grounds, and arrangements for the proper regulation 
 thereof, and may employ all necessary superintendents 
 and agents for that purpose, under and subject to such 
 directions, general and special, as the Board of Man- 
 agers may, from time to time, prescribe. 
 
 Sec. 8. If no election should be rnade of Managers 
 on the first Monday of March, at the stated annual 
 
Elmivood Cemetery, 
 
 meetino-of the stockholders, the several incumbents then 
 in office shall continue to exercise the duties and functions 
 of their respective offices until an election takes place. 
 
 Sec. 9. All agents and servants appointed by the 
 Board of Managers or the President, shall hold their 
 offices at the pleasure of the Board. 
 
 Sec. 10. The Board of Managers shall have stated 
 meetings on the second Monday of March, June, Sep- 
 tember and December, in each and every year. 
 
 Sec. II. Special meetings of the Board may be 
 called by the President, or in case of his absence or 
 inability, by any member of the Board ; and it shall be 
 his duty to call such special meetings, upon the written 
 requisition of any two Managers. It shall be the duty 
 of the Treasurer to give due notice, in writing, of every 
 meeting, and, in regard to annual meetings of the Cor- 
 poration, by publishing such notice thereof, as may be 
 deemed sufficient, in two of the city papers. 
 
 Sec. 12. All burial lots are to be designated, sur- 
 veyed, sold and conveyed by the President, under the 
 direction of the Board of Managers ; and no more than 
 four lots shall be sold or conveyed to any one person or 
 body, without the unanimous consent of the Board of 
 Managers. 
 
 Sec. 13. All instruments under seal of the Corpo- 
 ration, shall be signed by the President and counter- 
 signed by the Treasurer. 
 
 Sec. 14. The Board of Managers shall, from time to 
 time, make such ordinances and regulations touching 
 interments, the erection of monuments, decoration of the 
 grounds, and touching the general police of the Cem- 
 >etery, as they may deem expedient. 
 
ilMTlOI OF II 
 
 ELECTION OF CAPTAIN LENOW AS PRESIDENT, AND HIS 
 ADDRESS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 As stated in another place, a Board of Trustees has 
 been substituted for the Board of Managers, elective by 
 the lot-owners of Elmwood. In other words, the present 
 lot-owners, and those who may hereafter become lot- 
 owners, are the proprietors of the Cemetery — owning- 
 all its grounds, sold and unsold, and will hereafter elect 
 Trustees to managfe and care for it. This chancre has 
 been brought about by Captain Joseph Lenow's persist- 
 ent efforts, and surely every one interested in the 
 Cemetery will confess that the public owes him a debt 
 of lasting gratitude. 
 
 'The Board of Trustees selected under the Charter, 
 consisting of Joseph Lenow, James M. Williamson, 
 Wilie B. Miller, J. D. Williams, A. N. Edmonds, C. 
 Kortrecht, C. W. Coyer, James T. Leath and W. B. 
 Hamlin, met on December ist, 1S73, at the office of the 
 
Elmwood Cemetery, 
 
 Company, 36 Union street, and perfected their organi- 
 zation ; on which occasion Joseph Lenow was elected 
 President, John H. Lenow, Secretary and Treasurer, 
 and Samuel W. Phillips, Superintendent, positions which 
 they had long filled under the old management. 
 
 ADDRESS OF CAPTAIN LENOW. 
 
 Captain Lenow, in accepting the position of President 
 of the new organization, spoke as follows : 
 
 Gentlemen — I need hardly tell you how grateful I am 
 for this reassertion of undiminished confidence in my 
 fidelity to the trust I have administered through the past 
 fifteen years. To be elected under this new organi- 
 zation, when Trustees supplant the Board of Managers, 
 is especially gratifying. I accept the high and honorable 
 trust, and can only say that I will discharge my duties 
 faithfully. I need hardly tell you, after so many years 
 spent in perfecting the attractiveness of our City of the 
 Dead, that the very place is endeared to me. I love its 
 roses and evergreens, its speechless but eloquent monu- 
 ments, its silent roadways, and its bright blossoms of 
 spring, and pale shadows of autumn and winter. May 
 I not, while congratulating you on the progressive 
 attractiveness of Elmwood, also express my sincere 
 satisfaction because of the accomplishment of this 
 change, by which the lot-owners are substituted as 
 proprietors for the original stock company? The stock- 
 holders, in surrendering their stock, have manifested a 
 
Reorganization. 35 
 
 ^degree of generosity to the public which commands 
 popular approval and gratitude. The friends of the 
 •dead are now assured that no speculative purpose or 
 selfish aim of the living can influence the management 
 of the affairs of the Cemetery. 
 
 It is my purpose, as in former years, to devote almost 
 my entire time to the adornment of Elmwood and to the 
 perfection of its charms. Though much has been 
 accomplished, infinitely more remains to be done ; and 
 rest assured that no effort of mine will be spared to 
 make that hallowed spot as beautiful and attractive as 
 they would have it who imagine that the loved and lost, 
 resting there, are well pleased that the living do not 
 forget the dead. 
 
 CLASSIFICATION OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 First Class — Time expires first Monday in March, 
 1876: 
 
 CHAKLES W. GOYEK, 
 JAMES T. LEATH, 
 WM. B. HAMLIN. 
 
 Second Class — Time expires first Monday in March, 
 1878: 
 
 CHAKLES KOETRECHT, 
 ALEXANDER N. EDMONDS, 
 JOSIAH D. WILLIAMS. 
 
 Third Class — Time expires first Monday in March, 
 1880: 
 
 "WILIE B. MILLER, 
 JAMES M. WILLIAMSON, 
 JOSEPH LENOW. 
 
IlEGULA.TIO]^^S 
 
 IN REGARD TO INTERMENTS AND FUNERALS. 
 
 1 . Whenever a burial is to be made, notice thereof 
 must be given at the office of the Secretary before the 
 time set for taking out the permits by the Messenger^ 
 Four hours are required to prepare graves before inter- 
 ments can take place, from the time the permit is 
 received by the Superintendent at the Cemetery. 
 
 The persons applying for the permit must be able to 
 give the following particulars : Name of deceased, age, 
 color, date of death, date and hour of interment, disease, 
 in whose lot interred, location of grave, name of under- 
 taker, outside size of coffin or box. 
 
 The same information will be required, and also a 
 permit from the Secretary, when remains are to be 
 interred which have been removed from other burial 
 grounds ; and, when a body is to be removed from one 
 part of the Cemetery to another part, a permit therefor 
 anust be obtained from the Secretary. 
 
 2, Any lot-holder allowing a friend to bury in his lot 
 must make application for the privilege, in person, or by 
 a written order ; and proprietors shall not allow inter- 
 ments to be made in their lots for a remuneration. 
 
 Every lot-holder should have a diagram of his lot on 
 the back of his deed, or other convenient place, for 
 
Interments afid Funerals. 
 
 reference, and mark every interment thereon. This 
 method would enable him, in most cases, to point out 
 the precise location of each succeeding grave without 
 going out to the grounds, and thus prevent mistakes 
 occurring from improper description of location; and 
 one interment is all that should be made in the same 
 grave unless at a great depth, or when actual necessity 
 seems to require it. 
 
 3. Owing to the great number of interments in times 
 of an epidemic, or unusual mortality, parties are advised 
 to apply at the Secretary's office before setting the time 
 •of funerals, to ascertain what hour the Sexton can attend 
 the same, so as to prevent unnecessary delay and con- 
 fusion at the grounds ; applications to be considered 
 each in their turn. 
 
 4. All interments will be subject to the following 
 '■charges, and must be paid to the Secretary on obtaining 
 the permit, but no interment will be allowed in any lot 
 until the lot has been paid for : 
 
 Opening, closing and sodding each adult grave, ^ 5 00 
 Opening, closing and sodding each child's grave, 3 00 
 
 PUBLIC RECEIVING TOMB. 
 
 For opening Tomb, public or private, to receive 
 body, to be afterwards interred in the Cem- 
 etery, - - - - - - - ^ 2 00 
 
 For opening Tomb to remove the body, - - 2 00 
 
 For deposit of adult, to be afterwards removed 
 
 from Cemetery, - - - - - -10 00 
 
 For deposit of child under 10 years, to be after- 
 wards removed from Cemetery, - - - 5 00 
 
 From April ist to November ist, bodies must be 
 ^removed in one week ; and from November ist to April 
 
38 Elmwood Cemetery, 
 
 I St, within three weeks. No removals from Tomb oik 
 Sundays, except in special cases. Persons dying from 
 contagious diseases will not be deposited in the Public 
 Receiving Tomb, nor in a private tomb, unless sealed 
 up. When a body is to be deposited or removed from. 
 Public or Private Receiving Tombs, a permit must first 
 be obtained from the Secretary's office, and the charges 
 paid. 
 
 The same rule will be applied to Private Vaults as- 
 now made for the Public Receiving Tomb, that bodies can 
 only remain the same time, unless enclosed in brick- 
 work, and thoroughly cemented and made air-tight. 
 
 Undertakers are responsible, and must have bodies 
 removed at the expiration of the time during which, 
 bodies may remain, under the Rules of the Cemetery, 
 in Receiving Tombs, public or private. The officers of 
 the Cemetery look to undertakers, and not to the family 
 or friends of the deceased, for the execution of this- 
 Regulation. 
 
 Rights of Sepulture given Colored People. 
 
 Prior to the enactment of social equality laws by the- 
 Federal Congress, even in 1857, the managers and 
 stockholders of Elmwood assented to the interment of 
 colored people within the Cemetery. A "section" was 
 set apart for use and occupation by colored people exclu- 
 sively ; and It was further declared, by a special resolution 
 of the managers, that colored people should not be burled, 
 in any other portion, or private lot, of the Cemetery.. 
 
TOLLING THE BELL. 
 
 1. The bell is tolled as each funeral procession enters 
 the gateway of the Cemetery. 
 
 2. When the Superintendent is absent from his office^ 
 three taps of the bell will summon him. 
 
 For the accommodation of individuals who wish to 
 make interments, a messenger will be sent out to the 
 Cemetery daily, when required, at lo a. m., and 4 p. m., 
 during the week days, and on Sundays at 10 a. m. only. 
 At all other times, parties applying must furnish their 
 
 OFFICE HOLTRS. 
 
 Office hours from 8 to 10 a. m., and 2 to 4 p. m. daily, 
 Sundays excepted. On Sundays, office will be open 
 from 9 to 10 a. m. only. 
 
 Office in Lenow Block, No. 36 Union Street. 
 
 In case of emergency, when a permit is needed when 
 the office is closed, the Secretary may generally be found 
 by calling at his residence. 
 
40 Elmivood Cemetery. 
 
 RULES GOVEKNING UNDERTAKERS AND OTHERS. 
 
 Undertakers must so arrange the time for funerals as ] 
 to arrive before sunset, in order to be out of the grounds 
 before dark, as damage has been done by being late. 
 Carriage-drivers, and others employed at funerals, must | 
 always keep on the drives, and remain near their ■ 
 respective vehicles during the performance of funeral 
 ceremonies, and otherwise conduct themselves properly 
 and in accordance with the Regfulations of the institution. 
 No music or firing of volleys will be allowed within the I 
 grounds, except in case of the burial of a military or 
 naval officer. The Police of the Cemetery are instructed 
 to arrest any person offending against the above, or any i 
 Rule or Recrulation of the Board. ; 
 
 Purchase of Lots. Prices, Etc. 
 
 Persons desiring to purchase a lot, should first call at 
 the office of the Secretary, and obtain a ticket of admis- 
 sion to the grounds. Upon his or her arrival there the 
 Superintendent, whose office is at the north gate, will 
 show the various lots ready for sale ; and, if one be 
 selected, the party will receive a ticket giving the num- 
 ber, section, size and price of the lot. The purchaser 
 should then return immediately to the office and pay for 
 the same, after which an order for interment thereon 
 may at any time be given. 
 
Purchase and Price of Lois. 41 
 
 The Board of Trustees do not consider it expedient 
 to sell any lot before the same shall have been laid off, 
 surveyed and recorded. A lot will be exchanged for 
 another by any person desiring it, but not for one of less 
 value. But when such exchange is made the original 
 deed must be surrendered by proper assignment or by a 
 re-conveyance, if considered necessary, before the 
 arrangement is effected. Lots are not transferable 
 unless permission is obtained from the Board, and if 
 granted, the proper transfer must be made on the books. 
 
 The size and areas of individual burial lots in Elm- 
 wood, range from ninety-six to twelve hundred square 
 feet. 
 
 PRICE OF LOTS. 
 
 Lots are sold at the following prices per square foot : 
 On Circles, - - - - 75 cents. 
 
 First-class ground, - - 50 cents. 
 
 .Second-class ground, - - -^^l cents. 
 
 Third-class ground, - - 25 cents. 
 
 Lots may be selected to be held one year, unless 
 sooner used, but, in all cases, fhey have to be paid for 
 before burying o?i them. 
 
 SINGLE GRAVES. 
 
 When a single grave only is wanted, the following 
 prices are charged, which cover the entire expense for 
 the ground, and opening, closing and sodding the grave : 
 
 Adult, white, first-class ground, - - ^15 00 
 Child, " .* w " _ _ . _ 10 00 
 
 Adult, colored, second-class ground, 12 00 
 
 Child, " " " <' - - 8 00 
 
 The owners of single graves, who 'purchase family 
 burial lots, can have bodies removed from such graves 
 
42 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 and re-interred in the lot bought, without further charge 
 than the surrender of the grave vacated to the Cem- 
 etery Association. 
 
 BRICK GRAVES. 
 
 Brick grave in ground, aduh. 
 Brick grave in ground, child, 
 
 540 00 
 30 00 
 
 A permit for a brick grave should reach the Super- 
 intendent full twenty-four hours before the time of 
 interment. 
 
 PRICES OF FOUNDATIONS TO HEADSTONES 
 AND MONUMENTS. 
 
 HEADSTONES. 
 
 The base, two feet by one or under, 
 " " of larger dimensions, 
 
 MONUMENTS. 
 
 The base, two feet square or under, 
 
 ** " two feet to two feet six inches, 
 
 " " two feet six inches to three feet, - 
 
 " " three feet to three feet six inches, - 
 
 " " three feet six inches to four feet, - 
 
 " " four feet to four feet six inches, 
 
 •' " four feet six inches to five feet, - 
 
 " " five feet to five feet six inches, 
 
 " " five feet six inches to six feet, 
 
 '* " six feet to six feet six inches, - 
 
 " " six feet six inches to seven feet, - 
 
 $2 
 
 50 
 
 5 
 
 00 
 
 5 
 
 00 
 
 7 
 
 00 
 
 10 
 
 GO 
 
 13 
 
 00 
 
 17 
 
 GO 
 
 22 
 
 GQ 
 
 30 
 
 GO 
 
 Z1 
 
 50 
 
 45 
 
 00 
 
 55 
 
 GO 
 
 70 
 
 GOv 
 
Rules Concerning Improvements on Lots. 
 
 The Board of Trustees have no wish to interfere with 
 the taste of individuals in regard to the style of their 
 improvements, but in justice to the interests of the insti- 
 tution, they reserve to themselves the right given them 
 by law of preventing or removing any structure or object 
 which they shall consider injurious to the general good 
 appearance of the grounds, and particularly to adjoining 
 lots. 
 
 1. In order to produce a natural and pleasing surface 
 over the entire ground, the grade of all lots will be deter- 
 mined by the Trustees of the Corporation. 
 
 2. Persons wishinof foundations made must leave their 
 orders with the Secretary a reasonable time, according 
 to the size of the foundation, before the erection of the 
 monument, and pay for the same at the time. 
 
 3. No stone of any kind is allowed to be put up 
 without a proper foundation, which in all cases is made 
 exclusively by the Association, under the supervision of 
 the Superintendent. 
 
 4. Head-stones are not allowed to be set tliat mea- 
 sure less than three inches thick, or more than three feet 
 and a half high from the surface of the ground. Excep- 
 tions can only be granted on extra fine works of art, and 
 by special permission from the Board, in particular cases. 
 
44 Elniwood Cemetery. 
 
 Stones set without sockets must be set firmly in the 
 ground, one and a half feet deep, and built in brick work 
 to the surface. 
 
 5. The keeper of the gate is directed not to permit 
 monuments or other buildino- material to enter the 
 grounds, unless accompanied by workmen for the pur- 
 pose of erecting the same on their proper places. 
 
 6. Heavy laden teams will not be allowed to enter 
 the grounds in wet weather. 
 
 7. Persons engraofed in erectinor monuments or other 
 structures, are prohibited from attaching ropes to trees 
 and shrubs, and from scattering their material over ad- 
 joining lots, or leaving the same on the grounds any 
 longer than is absolutely necessary ; and in all cases they 
 must conduct themselves in accordance with the Re^ula- 
 tions of the Board, and must be subject to the control 
 and direction of the agents of the Institution ; and any 
 workman failing to conform to this Regulation, will not 
 be permitted afterwards to work on the grounds. 
 
 8. Vaults or tombs are not recommended, but will 
 be permitted, provided a design of the same is submitted 
 to the Board, and the work done in the most substantial 
 and safe manner. The materials must be of stone and 
 cement only. 
 
 9. Iron or wood enclosures, and wood head and foot 
 boards of any description whatsoever are considered 
 useless incumbrances, and are therefore prohibited. 
 
 Stone posts, on which the numbers of lots are inscribed 
 distinguish the several lots on the Circles of the Ceme- 
 tery, and after a time stone will be used exclusively for 
 .this purpose everywhere. 
 
CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP. 
 
 ELM'WOOD CEMETERY 
 
 OS" THE 
 
 City of Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 T/ie Proprietors of Elm wood Cemetery hereby Cer- 
 tify, That. of the owner of Lot 
 
 No in Section, on the Plat of said 
 
 Cemetery Grounds, in the County of Shelby, and State 
 
 of Tennessee, containing square feet, for which 
 
 said paid the sum of. Vj^Dollars, 
 
 and the said heirs and assigns, are entitled 
 
 to the use of said Lot, in fee simple, for the purpose of 
 Sepulture alone, subject to the provisions of the Charter 
 passed by the Legislature of Tennessee, on the 13th 
 day of Feb., 1854, entitled "■An Act to Incorporate Elm- 
 wood Cemetery, near Memphis'' 
 
 In Testimony Whereof, The said Proprietors of Elmwood 
 Cemetery have caused these Presents to be signed by their 
 President, and countersigned by their Secretary and Trea- 
 surer, and their Corporate Seal to be hereunto affixed, this 
 day of in the year of our Lord 18 — 
 
 President. 
 
 .—.Sec. and Treas. 
 
.46 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 FORM OF SECRETARY'S ORDER. 
 
 Undebtakebs are Requibed to Have Funebals Abeive Befobe Sunset. "S« 
 
 -Order issued at J. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, j 
 
 secretary's office, 
 
 Mejiphis, Tenn. , ....18 — 
 
 Superintendent Elmwood Ce7netery : ^ 
 
 Prepare to receive the remains of 
 
 who died 18 of. aged 
 
 ..years. Prepare a grave feet. ...in. long, 
 
 feet in. wide, ...in Lot No 
 
 Section, belonging to..... in Public Lot. 
 
 interment.. this day at m. j 
 
 Secretary. \ 
 
 Undertaker. \ 
 
 This Order must be delivered at the OiSce of Superintendent four hours 
 .before Interment is to be made. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 TO BE OBSERVED BY 
 
 LOT-HOLDERS AND VISITORS. 
 
 1. Tickets must be shown at the gate, and are not 
 
 transferable. 
 
 2. Each lot-owner is entitled to a ticket of admission 
 
 for his or her family. 
 
 3. No children will be admitted unless accompanied by- 
 
 some person responsible for their conduct. 
 
 4. Persons on horseback or in carriages will not be 
 
 allowed to leave the drives, or to pass through 
 the grounds at a rate exceeding three miles the 
 hour. 
 
 5. Persons with firearms will not be admitted. 
 
 6. Horses must not be left unless fastened at the places 
 
 prepared for that purpose. , 
 
 7. Dogs will not be admitted within the enclosure. 
 
48 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 8. All persons are prohibited from picking any flowers, 
 
 either wild or cultivated, or breaking any tree, 
 shrub or plant, or writing upon, defacing, or 
 injuring any monument, fence, or any structure 
 in or belonging to the Cemetery, or touching any 
 object not their own. 
 
 9. No person is permitted to enter the Cemetery 
 
 except through the gates. 
 
 10. Persons with refreshments will not be permitted to 
 
 enter. 
 
 11. Omnibuses will not be permitted to enter the 
 
 grounds. 
 
 12. Persons will not be permitted to disturb the quiet 
 
 or good order of the place. 
 
 13. Intruders on the grounds, after the gates are closed 
 
 at night., will be arrested and prosecuted. 
 
 14. The grounds of Elmwood are hallowed and sacred, 
 
 and no impropriety will be permitted to pass 
 unnoticed ; and any violation of Rules will cause 
 the arrest of the offender by officers of the law, 
 who are never absent from the grounds. 
 
 15. The Gate-keepers are charged to refuse admit- 
 
 tance into the grounds of all improper persons, 
 and those who are known to have at any^time 
 caused a disturbance, or otherwise transgressed 
 the Regulations of the Association. 
 
Rules Governing Lot-ozv7iers and I isitors. 49 
 
 16. Discharging fire-arms is prohibited in and around 
 
 the Cemetery grounds, to the distance of one 
 hundred yards. 
 
 17. The gates are open to the Cemetery from sunrise 
 
 to dark. 
 
 18. Lot-owners, visitors, and all others are subject to 
 
 the Rules and Regulations of the Cemetery in 
 everything. 
 
 19. No money shall be paid to the gate-keepers, or 
 
 any person in the employ of the Company, for 
 any personal service or attention, outside of the 
 regular charges of the Association. 
 
 ^^^ All well-disposed persons will confer a favor by 
 informing the Superintendent of any breach of the Rules 
 that may come under their notice. 
 
 B@°'The laborers' buildings are siluatecl on the extreme western boundary of the 
 Cemetery, and front on Robinson avenue. 
 
 \|^g=^ No body will be disinterred in Elmwood, nor 
 will bodies ' brought from other Cemeteries or private 
 burial grounds be interred in Elmwood Cemetery, be- 
 tween the first of April and first of November, of each 
 year, unless they have been buried five years. 
 
50 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 ELMWOOD CEMETERY, MEMPHIS, TENN. 
 LOT-OWNER'S TICKET, 
 
 To BE Showx at the Gate— (Not Tkansfekabli:.) 
 
 This Ticket Admits and the members 
 
 of h household, with the privilege of introducing 
 
 strangers. All subject to the Rules of the Cemetery. 
 
 By order of the Trustees. 
 
 Sen^etary. 
 
 ELMWOOD CEMETERY, MEMPHIS, TENN. 
 SINGLE GRAVE TICKET, 
 
 To BE Shown at the Gate — (Not Transfekable.) 
 
 TJiis Ticket Adjuits subject to th( 
 
 Rules of the Cemetery. 
 By order of the Trustees. 
 
 Seci^etary. 
 
 The Gates are Open from Sunrise till Dark. 
 
 Memphis, Tenn., .....". _.i8 — 
 
 Permit to visit Elmwood Cemetery, 
 
 (subject to the Rules of the Cemetery, posted near 
 the entrance of each Gate.) 
 By order of the Trustees. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 N. B. — This Permit must be given up at the Gate. 
 
A PERPETUAL FUND TO KEEP LOTS IN ORDER. 
 
 The Company is authorized by its Charter to receive 
 and hold in trust funds to be used in adorning lots 
 perpetually, the interest to be sacredly applied to this 
 purpose. Persons desiring to have this done will be 
 shown the nature of the contract at the Secretary's 
 office. This plan is fast becoming a favorite method 
 with owners of lots in the principal cemeteries in this 
 country, and should be resorted to by all who can spare 
 a sum, the interest of which may be sufficient for the 
 purpose. " Let us then employ some of our superfluous 
 wealth, now often expended in useless luxuries, in 
 rendering the place where our beloved friends repose 
 attractive, not only for the present, but also for the 
 future." 
 
 For work of every kind done by the Company, it is 
 intended to charge sufficiently to cover cost and no 
 more. 
 
 HOW TO SECUKE TICKETS OF ADMISSION. 
 
 Lot-owners who have not procured tickets of admis- 
 sion can get them at the Secretary's office, 2)^ Union 
 street. The office hours are from 8 to lo o'clock a. m., 
 and from 2 to 4 o'clock p. m., Sundays excepted. On 
 Sundays the office will be open from 9 to 10 o'clock 
 
52 Elmwood Cemetery, 
 
 a. m., only. A messenger will be sent to the Cemetery 
 on week days at lo o'clock a. m,, and 4 o'clock p. m.^ 
 and on Sundays at 10 o'clock a. m., only. 
 
 HOW TO CARE FOR LOTS AND MONUMENTS. 
 
 As Stated in another place, plans are devised by which 
 the Cemetery will be perfected in all its incidents, and 
 kept in perfect order for all time, even without the 
 co-operation of lot-owners. Those who would adorn 
 the ground they have bought, cultivate flowers, have 
 monuments cleaned, and special and extra attention 
 given to their lots, may contract with the Company by 
 the year, and are referred to the Superintendent, whose 
 office is at the north entrance of the Cemetery. In 
 order to have no misunderstanding, they should be 
 particular to specify what work they would have done 
 on their lots, and at what cost. The Superintendent 
 will then refer them to the Secretary and Treasurer, 
 who, on receipt of the money, will order the work done ; 
 the Board of Tries tees having resolved to enforce the cash 
 system in this as well as in all other transactions of the 
 Cemeteiy. They are sustained in its adoption by the 
 leadinof cemeteries of the United States. Those who 
 prefer to attend to their own lots must obtain permits 
 from the Secretary to the Superintendent, and conform 
 to all Rules while on the grounds of the Cemetery. 
 
 MODE or CONDUCTING BUSINESS. 
 
 Except the sum of ^2,500, paid annually as a dividend,, 
 the whole revenue of the Cemetery has been devoted to 
 the payment of current expenses for its embellishment, 
 and to the extingfuishment of indebtedness incurred in 
 the purchase of land. At the close of each fiscal year, 
 the books of the Association have been examined and 
 
Disposition of Fu7tds. 53 
 
 approved by a Committee of Managers and Stock- 
 holders. This task is easily done. All money expended 
 is paid on checks drawn on the bank, which, by consent 
 of the Directors, was made the depository of the 
 Association's funds. The bank book and cash book of 
 the Association must always show the same balances. 
 Every article bought for the use of the Association is 
 paid for in cash, and there are no unpaid accounts. 
 Each check is signed both by the Treasurer and Presi- 
 dent, and there is a proper voucher, properly numbered, 
 like the bank checks, for each item of expenditure. 
 
 All funds received are at once itemized and deposited 
 in bank, and the system is conducted without the creation 
 ■of debts. Laborers and others, constantly employed, 
 are paid at the end of each month. In very truth, the 
 books of the Association are few and simple, and these 
 are always open for inspection by experts and others 
 interested in the management or ownership of the 
 Cemetery. Each dollar that has become the property 
 of the Association has been honestly applied and 
 expended in its behalf. The voice of slander has been 
 silent, and no whisper has been uttered to lessen the 
 brightness of their fame who, through more than twenty 
 years, have managed the business affairs of Elmwood 
 Cemetery. The story of a blameless corporation stands 
 in perfect solitude, its splendor the more wonderful 
 because unselfishness, as well as unquestioned honesty, 
 marks its every page. It is like the solitary planet that 
 peers forth at noonday, amid the gloom of a total 
 .-eclipse. 
 
A CATAIiOaUS OF BOOKS 
 
 USED FOR THE 
 
 TRANSACTION OF THE BUSINESS OF THE CEMETERY. 
 
 Cash Book. 
 
 Alphabetical Lot Book, (duplicate). 
 
 A Daily Burial Record Book. 
 
 Alphabetical Burial Record Book, (duplicate). 
 
 Vault Book. 
 
 A Plat Book for each Section. 
 
 Register of Deeds. 
 
 Time Table Book, to keep laborers' time.- 
 
 Record Book of Minutes. 
 
 Undertakers' Book. 
 
 Perpetual Agreement Record. 
 
 CASH SYSTEM. 
 
 By resolution of the Board of Trustees, any officer 
 or employe of the Cemetery giving credit, becomes- 
 personally responsible. All business of the Cemetery 
 is done for Cash, and no deviation from this rule can or 
 will be made. 
 

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 ^,^ r^^A^-^>*¥*^^^ 
 
 
 BETHELL. 
 
ABSTRACT OF CORPORATE RIGHTS. 
 
 The original Charter and Amendments, published in 
 another place, direct that the affairs of the Corporation 
 shall be managed by a Board of nine Trustees, to be 
 chosen by the lot-owners from among their own 
 number ; each owner of a plat of land, not less than 
 three hundred superficial square feet, to be entitled to a 
 vote. To prevent, however, undue advantage being 
 taken of the absence of lot-owners at any election, by 
 which a few designing men might get control of the 
 Institution for selfish purposes, it directs that if one- 
 third of the lot-owners shall not in person, or by proxy, 
 vote thereat, the Trustees to be chosen shall be elected 
 by a majority of the existing Trustees. It directs the 
 Trustees to be divided into three equal classes, one class 
 in rotation to be elected every two years, for the term 
 of six years, with the privilege of re-election indefinitely. 
 It authorizes and directs the land acquired by the 
 Corporation to be disposed of and used exclusively for 
 the burial of the dead. It exempts such land forever 
 from assessments and public taxes, and also from liability 
 to be sold on execution, or for the payment of debts by 
 assignment under any insolvent law ; and prohibits any 
 public road, avenue, or street, from being laid out or 
 opened through the grounds of the Cemetery. 
 
56 Elmwood Cemetery 
 
 It requires that the proceeds of all sales of lots shall ' 
 be applied to the purchase, preservation, improvement, 1 
 and embellishment of the Cemetery, and to the incidental 
 expenses thereof, and to no other turfose whatever. 
 The Charter further authorizes the Corporation to 
 receive, upon trust, any donation or bequest for the 
 purpose of improving- or embellishing the Cemetery ] 
 generally, or any Cemetery lot, and for the erection, 
 preservation, and renewal of any monumental structure 
 or enclosure. 
 
 LOCATION OF ELMWOOD. * 
 
 HOW TO REACH THE CEMETERY. 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery, a beautiful woodland tract of 
 eighty acres, constituting almost a perfect square, 
 between the Memphis and Selma Railway, on its north- 
 ern, and Walker avenue on its southern boundary, lies 
 two and a half miles southeast of the city of Memphis, 
 in Shelby county, Tennessee. 
 
 There are two iron gateways ; one on the northern, 
 the other on the southern side of the enclosure. The 
 
 * The Cemetery, of which this volume tells, was so called by accident. Several 
 names to desij;nate the place were proposed to be used. Four or five of them were 
 written on pieces of pajier, deposited in a hat, and the word Elmwood, suj^gested 
 by Captain Charles Church, was tirst di^awn out, and the stockholders were well 
 pleased. 
 
Location and ]\ lap — Receiving Tomb. 57 
 
 latter is at the terminus of the Hernando Street Rail- 
 way. Street cars, having the word " Elmwood" painted 
 on their sides, reach and leave this southern gate every 
 ten minutes. At either gate there is a waiting-room, 
 where fires are maintained in inclement weather, that 
 visitors may be made comfortable. In order to secure 
 conveniences, incident to the extension of the Street 
 Railway to the Cemetery, the proprietors of the latter, 
 in 1867, subscribed for five thousand dollars stock in the 
 Street Railway Company, and on the first of October, 
 1867, gave, without charge, to the Street Railway Com- 
 pany, the privilege of using the lot for ten years, on 
 which the stable stands, at the southern sfate. 
 
 A MAP OF THE CEMETERY. 
 
 Admirable Maps of the Cemetery were executed by 
 Emil Steger, in 1873. A copy may be seen in the 
 Secretary's office, 36 Union street, and another in that 
 of the Superintendent, at the north gate of the Cem- 
 etery. In this latter office there are also books 
 containing the name, and designating the burial place 
 of each person interred in the Cemetery. 
 
 PUBLIC RECEIVING TOMB. 
 
 A costly Receiving Tomb, perfectly adapted to its 
 purposes, and designed to subserve every public neces- 
 sity, will soon be constructed. Excavations for the 
 structure have been begun. It will be built of stone and 
 brick, on Elm Avenue, near Lenow Circle. 
 
58 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 RESERVED GROUND. 
 
 Two plats of ground have been reserved in perpetuity, 
 never to be appropriated to burial purposes. These 
 plats belong alike to all lot-owners, and can never have 
 their uses changed. They are designed to serve as 
 public parks, or open grounds, and have been dedicated 
 to this purpose. One of these lies on either side and in 
 front of the southern gateway, and the other is enclosed 
 or properly defined, on the summit of a hill, in Fowler's 
 Section. 
 
 A PERPETUAL FUND. 
 
 The fiscal year of the business management of the 
 Cemetery begins on the first day of March. In 1875, and 
 in each successive year the sum of ^2,500 will be set 
 aside, as agreed by the Trustees of the Cemetery, to 
 constitute part of a fund to be accumulated and invested 
 in Memphis City Bonds, until one hundred thousand 
 dollars of these bonds are purchased, furnishing a reve- 
 nue to the Trustees of Elmwood of $6,000 per annum, 
 to keep the grounds in order after the revenue from the 
 sale of lots shall cease. This income is designed to 
 make Elmwood fresh and attractive and beautiful forever. 
 The bonds bought are to be converted into a single reg- 
 istered bond for $100,000, to mature at any indefinite 
 period, the sole purpose of the Trustees being to use 
 the annually accruing interest in the manner indicated, 
 and prevent, by every possible means, the perversion of 
 the trust, or misapplication of the fund. 
 
Society Lots. 5 a 
 
 Lots Owned by Corporations and Associations. 
 
 The Masons have a beautiful lot on the Grand Tour,- 
 of the area of 20,000 square feet. It is not far from 
 the northern gateway. 
 
 The Odd Fellows have a lot equally eligible, of 16,052 
 square feet, in Fowler Section, and on the Grand Tour 
 and Road of Honor. 
 
 The Memphis Typographical Union owns, near the 
 northern entrance, lot 279, on Fowler Avenue and the 
 Grand Tour, containing 1,000 square feet. 
 
 The Knights of Pythias selected their burial place in 
 Turley Section. The pretty spot contains 1,942 square 
 feet, surface measurement.* 
 
 The Church Home bury its wards, who die in their 
 charge, in Turley Section, lot No. 417. The lot contains- 
 350 square feet. 
 
 Hard by is the lot of the Leath Orphan Asylum. It 
 also is in Turley Section, Nos. 425 and 420, and 
 contains 523 square feet. 
 
 This eleemosynary institution, owning these lots, was 
 founded by Mrs. Sarah H. Leath, who gave its trustees, 
 whom she appointed, a very valuable tract of thirty-five 
 acres of land in the northeastern suburbs of the city- 
 Rarely has a private charity, in any country, accom- 
 plished greater good than this. Most fortunate the 
 South, if many good women, in coming years, win 
 faultless, enduring fame, and serve the poor and helpless 
 
 *0n this lot the Knights have erected a significant monument, indicative of th« 
 designs of the Order, and carved out of marble, by that most skillful sculptor, Mr- 
 Anderson, of Anderson, Venn & Co. 
 
6o Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 as effectively as Mrs. Leath. Miss Jane Ward, who 
 was appointed by Mrs. Leath to superintend the Asylum, 
 served till her death, having assumed the duties of 
 Matron in 1854. She was buried in Elmwood in Janu- 
 ary, 1874. 
 
 Fire Company No. 5 owns a lot in Fowler Section. 
 It contains 360 square feet. 
 
 DONATIONS 
 
 The Cemetery Association have ceded lots to great 
 public benefactors, as occurred when a beautiful burial 
 place was given, that the public services of the late 
 Governor and U. S. Senator, James C. Jones, might be 
 properly recognized. He contributed more perhaps, 
 than any one man of his time to the growth and great- 
 ness of Memphis, and the Elmwood Association saw fit 
 thus to attest its appreciation of his worth. The Asso- 
 ciation also gave a lot to the Leath Orphan Asylum, 
 and another to the Church Home, both eleemosynary 
 institutions. 
 
 The Association also gave the ground for the graves, 
 and at its own cost buried the bodies of more than one 
 thousand Confederate soldiers. An equal area was in 
 like manner assigned to Federal soldiers, whose bodies 
 were subsequently removed to the National Cemetery. 
 
 During the prevalence of yellow fever, in 1873, the 
 Association gave to the poor burial places of the value 
 of $1,500. For this, the Citizens Relief Association, in 
 behalf of the unfortunate whom they served, tendered 
 thanks to the Elmwood Cemetery Association. 
 

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 rOWLER. 
 
^Imutoai 
 
 General Facts and Description* 
 
 Bring roses to place in the dying one's hand, 
 
 Pale roses, light touched with dew, 
 A few withered buds from the sunny land, 
 
 As emblems sad, yet true. 
 Bring roses, white roses, to plant on the grave 
 
 Of the loved one fallen to sleep ; 
 Bring roses to strew over his narrow cave. 
 
 Where the drooping willows weep. 
 
 Everywhere in Elmwood one encounters evidences of 
 the love entertained by the living for the dead. The 
 very care and ceaseless labor expended in beautifying 
 the charming place demonstrates the wonderful strength 
 of that sentiment which binds us to the spot in which 
 repose the ashes of the loved and lost. There is not in 
 all this broad land a more attractive spot. Hills and 
 dales, and grand old oaks, and dense shades, and ever- 
 greens from every land, and roadways defined by taste 
 and skill in landscape gardening, give absolute perfec- 
 tion to the charms of Elmwood. Recentlv the area of 
 
,62 Ehmvood Ctmetery 
 
 the beautiful Cemetery has been enlarged by an addition 
 of forty acres. An enclosure has been made which is 
 perfect in its materials and in manner of construction. 
 Each cedar post, as when the Hebrews were building 
 the temple, was brought from another Lebanon, and 
 every care was taken that the material should be fault- 
 less and enduring. Notched nails used, were made 
 especially for the Elmwood Association in an Ohio vil- 
 lage. Everywhere in the Cemetery there are marks of 
 progressive improvement. Carriage-ways are extended 
 and widened and paved ; new paths are defined for those 
 who would seek solitude among the resting places of the 
 dead ; weeping willows are made to bend over the graves 
 , of youth and age and loveliness ; bright flowers shed 
 fraorance over countless little hillocks that tell how some 
 mother's heart was almost broken when a sinless little 
 life left its body to repose beneath the rose-crowned sod. 
 And here on the quiet, silent, holy Sunday afternoon — 
 
 " Out in the gold of the blossoming mold " 
 
 pale flowers, hardly more pure or meek than they who 
 set them there, seem to breathe forth prayers and unut- 
 terable love and aspirations for a higher, holier, mode of 
 .existence, which may render the living fit for that other 
 rlife begun by those whose bodies rest so quietly in 
 Elmwood. 
 
 WHAT PEOPLE WOULD KNOW. 
 
 It is quite impossible to wander, without indulging 
 vague fancies, among the thirteen thousand graves of 
 the beautiful Cemetery. We are wont to contrast the 
 simple monuments reared here by affection's hand with 
 ..those mighty memorials lifted up by wealth, and vanity, 
 and power, in other lands. Modest marble slabs, on 
 
General Facts and Description. 63 
 
 which are recited simple stories of Hves begun and 
 ended, are oftener found than great monumental piles. 
 Love would only have an enduring tablet on which its 
 grief may be recorded. It was vain-glorious ambition 
 that reared the pyramids, that built the wonderful tomb 
 of Mausoleus, and dug catacombs beneath imperial 
 Rome. Here, in Elmwood, sea-shells that chant ever a 
 sad requiem, flowers that bloom perennially, and immor- 
 telles breathing out beauty almost musical in poetical 
 utterance, tell the story of death's invasion of households 
 from whose doorways the sunshine was shut out forever. 
 
 RULES OF THE CEMETEEY. 
 
 Entering the Cemetery, either by the northern or 
 southern gateway, one finds on the wall of the gate- 
 keeper's lodge, and on guide boards, the " Rules and 
 Regulations of the Cemetery." By these the graves 
 are protected against desecration, and flowers and trees 
 against unworthy footsteps. Gate-keepers, gardeners 
 and superintendents are invested by a special enactment 
 of the Legislature, with the rights, powers and immu- 
 nities of policemen, and may make arrests, and violators 
 of the Rules of the Cemetery may be punished as are 
 they who violate the city's code. 
 
 Under the Act incorporating the Association, fifty 
 gentlemen subscribed $500 each, creating a capital of 
 $25,000. A tract of forty acres was first purchased, and 
 recently forty have been added, the whole costing ^65,000. 
 This purchase and the construction of the costly enclo- 
 sure have retarded the progress of many improvements 
 contemplated by the Trustees. Such has been the Com- 
 pany's good fortune that its property, derived from an 
 original investment of ^25,000, is now worth ^250,000. 
 
64 Elmzvood Cemetery. 
 
 It was agreed, when the Association was organized, that 
 no dividend greater than ten per cent, on the original 
 investment (5^25, 000) should ever be distributed among 
 the shareholders, and to this contract the Association has 
 ever rigidly adhered. The whole annually accruing in- 
 come is expended in perfecting the matchless attractions 
 of this resting place of the dead. To this purpose not 
 less than $20,000 are annually devoted. 
 
 Every lot-owner in the Cemetery is interested in the 
 successful execution of the plans of the President and 
 Trustees. If the Association had been disposed to specu- 
 late, it miofht have watered its stock, Qrivinsf it a face value 
 equal to that of its property, and on this $250,000 annually 
 declare dividends of ten per cent., thus making the annual 
 revenue of each shareholder equal to the sum of his origi- 
 nal investment. No one would have had the rio-ht to 
 complain, and few associations of gentlemen, in this cor- 
 rupt age, would have been restrained by an agreement 
 to act differently — made only among themselves, and in 
 reference to which other persons had no right to speak. 
 But criticism is silenced, and all possible dpubt as to the 
 stainless integrity of the proprietors of Elmwood have 
 been dispelled by the dissolution of the original corpora- 
 tion and transfer of the property to Trustees, represent- 
 ing and elective by the owners of lots in the Cemetery. 
 
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 ATKi 
 
I 
 
 Ite jfufuni of tht[ tcmderg. 
 
 Captain Joseph Lenow has presided over, and, to a 
 very great extent, shaped the fortunes of the Corpo- 
 ration through the past fifteen years. He has said that, 
 with its present resources, ten years would be required 
 for the perfection of plans and improvements contem- 
 plated. When these aims are achieved, little can be 
 done to render Elmwood more beautiful. Fountains 
 will send up sparkling columns flashing in the sunlight, 
 and every flower that blooms in fadeless beauty will shed 
 its fragrance there, and trees and roses, bending grace- 
 fully before soft winds that sigh above the graves of 
 Elmwood, will render the place as charming as the 
 gardens of Paestum. 
 
 PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 The construction of roadways through Elmwood, the 
 
 perfection of gradients and curves, the opening of 
 
 drains, the removal of trees, decoration of lots, and 
 
 perfection of drawings and plans, not only engage every 
 
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66 Elmwood Cemetery 
 
 thought of the President of the Association, but of the 
 Superintendent, Mr. PhilHps, a civil engineer and land- 
 scape gardener of life-long training and thorough 
 proficiency. A little stream winds its way along a 
 valley. Its bed is to be cleared of the obstructions 
 and matted with Bermuda grass. It will soon be 
 spanned by gracefully arched bridges, some of which 
 are just completed, and near it a lake is dug, to be 
 adorned by fountains, the water to be driven by pressure 
 from the public reservoir. It is the intention of the 
 Company, at some future time, to co-operate with the 
 city in building a paved, durable road, on the best route 
 from the city, to approach the Cemetery at the northern 
 entrance. All the avenues and walks are to be 
 graveled. 
 
 In Turley's Section, on the summit of the loftiest hill 
 in the Cemetery, is Lenow's Circle, and in the center of 
 this a beautiful pagoda will stand, and within it a foun- 
 tain will give freshness to breezes that sweep over the 
 spot. 
 
 LABORS OF MAlSTAGPiES. 
 
 The duties incident to the superintendency of a City 
 of the Dead, containing thirteen thousand inhabitants, 
 like Elmwood, and its numbers being constantly aug- 
 mented, are infinitely more onerous than people imagine. 
 Titles and maps of lots are carefully recorded, and a 
 register of deeds is made. There is no recorder's court,, 
 but a police force is ever present at work. So admirably 
 well are the records of the Cemetery kept that none 
 have ever encountered the slightest difficulty in ascer- 
 taining the precise spot in which a friend or relative was 
 buried. The names of the dead are alphabetically 
 
lVo}?ian's Devotioti. 67 
 
 recorded, and so with those of lot-owners. A plat of 
 each lot is preserved, and on it appears each grave, with 
 marginal notes below, giving the name of its occupant. 
 People from distant States and cities have often sought 
 to learn whether soldiers and others, — long unheard of, — 
 slept in Elmwood. The facts are divulged at once, and 
 many wives and mothers have derived melancholy plea- 
 sure from the consciousness that their tears bedewed the 
 last resting place of those they loved, directed as they 
 were infallibly to proper graves by the perfectly 
 systematized books of the Elmwood Association. 
 
 WOMAN'S DEVOTION. 
 
 While men do not forget formal duties to the dead 
 women are most demonstrative, and ever to be found 
 wandering with lightest footsteps among the graves 
 within the hallowed precincts of Elmwood. Visit the 
 place w^ien one may, and everywhere women, with 
 tearful eyes, will be seen bending, the very imper- 
 sonations of grief, over cherished graves. By women 
 little incidents are remembered, and memories of the 
 dead are treasured up with religious care. Every tone 
 of endearment uttered by the dead when living becomes 
 as sweet as kisses "by hopeless fancy feigned on lips 
 that are for others." Woman's tears rise in the heart 
 and gather in the eyes from the depth of some divine 
 despair, and to woman is assigned the tenderest, most 
 touchino^ tasks of devotion to the dead. Men build 
 monuments, but women sanctify them. Vanity does not 
 stand by when woman, the beautiful, the generous, the 
 true — who in the Madonna imbued the mind of our 
 Savior with the first sweet lessons of love — tenders the 
 tribute of tears to hallowed memories and deathless love. 
 Vanity suggests no task of gentle devotion to the loved 
 
68 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 and lost assumed by mothers, sisters, wives. Man may 
 build a proud mausoleum to tell posterity of his deeds, 
 but woman will reck little of its masfnificence when 
 dreamily bestrewing its base with roses. Go to Elm- 
 wood and one may learn true woman's worth. 
 
 GENEKOSITY OF THE ELMWOOD ASSOCIATION. 
 
 One thousand Confederate soldiers sleep in Elmwood. 
 The Elmwood Association gave the ground, and made 
 no charge for services rendered by their employees. The 
 base of a monument, hereafter to be reared in the 
 middle of this bivouac of the dead, has been prepared 
 for the marble shaft, on whose sides will be inscribed 
 recitals of gallant deeds done by those who began here 
 an eternal march. 
 
 GENERAL SUGGESTIONS. 
 
 THE SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 In 1866, just after the cessation of hostilities between 
 the States, Mr. S. W. Phillips, a skillful engineer and 
 landscape gardener, formerly of Bellefontaine Cemetery, 
 St. Louis, was made Superintendent and Secretary and 
 Treasurer of Elmwood Association. In 1871, Mr. 
 Phillips was relieved of duties incident to the latter 
 
Gefieral Suggestio7is. 69 
 
 offices, since filled by John H. Lenow, Esq., and he 
 now devotes himself exclusively to his proper profes- 
 sional task as Superintendent. To his taste and skill, 
 and thorough mastery of every duty incident to the 
 office of Superintendent of Elmwood, this charming 
 place is indebted for much of its attractiveness. In his 
 latest report he tells that there have been nearly 14,000 
 interments, 759 of these Federal soldiers, whose bodies 
 have been removed ; that old drives, where practicable, 
 have been widened ; the course and location of others 
 changed, and new ones opened. The grounds, in many 
 places, have been properly graded, and evergreens and 
 forest trees planted. Many costly and tasteful monu- 
 ments have been erected, and stone curbing placed 
 around many lots. Dense, tall hedges, which have 
 outgrown all purposes of adornment, and are no longer 
 approved, have been removed, and, in most instances, 
 lot-owners have substituted stone curbing to define the 
 boundaries of lots. By this means the Cemetery has 
 been rendered doubly attractive ; monuments become 
 visible, and every charm of the landscape is perfected 
 and appreciable. As overgrown shrubbery, in older 
 portions of the Cemetery, is slowly removed, cedar 
 posts are used to designate the corners of lots. That 
 Elmwood's beauties have been thus multiplied, none 
 deny. 
 
 INSTRUCTIONS TO LOT-OWNERS. 
 
 Those accustomed, through long periods, to supervise 
 Cemeteries, may proffer valuable suggestions to grief- 
 stricken survivors of the loved and lost. When shocked 
 or paralyzed by irremediable calamities wrought by 
 death, those who loved the dead are least fitted to pro- 
 vide, at once, means of perpetuating and honoring their 
 
JO Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 memories. It were wise, in most instances, if the 
 survivors postponed, till grief were soothed by the lapse 
 of time, the attestation of love or veneration, or respect 
 for the dead. Taste and judgment, like the vision, are 
 blinded by tears. Headstones disfigure a pretty spot, 
 while a proper monument, in the center of a lot, 
 beautifies it forever. Such a monument would endure 
 through an indefinite period, and on its sides might be 
 inscribed legends recitative of the virtues and worth of 
 all whose deeds we w^ould commemorate. 
 
 SHRUB BEEY. 
 
 The selection and use of large trees, such as cedars 
 and magnolias, to adorn lots, should be made by the 
 Trustees or their agents. Such trees conceal the beau- 
 ties of the Cemetery, render monuments invisible, 
 obstruct the vision and the course of breezes that in 
 spring and summer render the place delightful. These 
 evergreens often absolutely destroy the most pleasing 
 effects of landscape gardening. Shrubs and dwarf 
 trees, that may be trimmed, are best adapted to uses of 
 lot-owners in the Cemetery. The use of shells in 
 making walks through lots, and between graves, cannot 
 be approved. Such walks can hardly be kept in order. 
 
 NUMBER AND CHARACTER OF LOTS. 
 
 Burial lots are laid off as the demand requires, and 
 lots, in every respect as eligible as any heretofore 
 disposed of, can always be secured. A buyer can 
 surely be pleased when he may select any one of three 
 thousand lots. It is only proper to say, that the concur- 
 rence and co-operation of lot-owners, with the Trustees 
 and their agents, should be perfect ; otherwise, supposed 
 embellishments, without plan or uniform design, will mar, 
 rather than heighten, the supreme loveliness of Elmwood. 
 
General Suggestions. 71 
 
 THE SUPPLY OF LOTS. 
 
 If one suppose the population of Memphis, and the 
 adjoining territory which buries in its Cemeteries, to be 
 80,000, and that this will be increased at the rate of 
 5,000 per annum, and the ratio of burials to the number 
 of people remain unchanged, there is land enough 
 in Elmwood to supply the exactions of death for thirty- 
 three years — the life-time of a generation. -This 
 estimate is not a random guess, but is based upon a 
 mathematical calculation. 
 
 WHAT STONE TO USE. 
 
 If the living desire to erect monuments in attestation 
 of the virtues of the dead, and not to their own vanity, 
 granite is the material which should be used. It lasts, 
 unchanged, even when exposed to storm and tempest 
 and winter's cold a.nd summer's heat, through ages. 
 Marble is soon discolored, and frost and heat soon 
 impair the smoothness of its gloss}^ surface. Granite is 
 preferred to marble or other stone in all the great Ceme- 
 teries of this country and of Europe, and the best is 
 found in Sweden and Scotland. Oulncy granite is 
 much used for monumental purposes, and Is deemed 
 almost or quite as durable as that from Scotland. 
 
 DESIGNS FOR MONUMENTS. 
 
 Perfect oneness in the designs and plans of different 
 monuments reflects harshly upon the taste and genius 
 of their builders. Variety in materials and in designs is 
 most desirable, and it would be pleasing to the public if 
 every monument lifted up In Elmwood were wholly 
 unlike all that have been reared in former years. Little 
 deviations from the plan of the great number of monu- 
 ments are hardly observed, and there is a singular and 
 
72 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 disagreeable sameness in white, ghostly stones that 
 uplift their shapes so silently and solemnly above the 
 graves of Elmwood. 
 
 VAULTS. 
 
 Vaults, as depositories for the dead, were once com- 
 monly used among the most enlightened, as well as 
 amoiag barbarous nations. In our time, vaults are little 
 approved. No structure above ground, however costly, 
 can evade the decree, " dust thou art, and unto dust 
 thou shalt return." Little hillocks, side by side, lifted 
 up as if mother earth sighed when her children fell, may 
 not be suggestive of beauty or significant of joy ; but 
 infinitely less pleasurable are associations of the family 
 vault. Within its damp green walls, there is the very 
 breath and odor of death. Unless each apartment be 
 securely sealed, there are noxious vapors exhaled which 
 make the dead, sought to be preserved, offensive to 
 every sense. There is no proper resting place for the 
 dead save beneath the green sod, where flowers bloom, 
 and trees sigh, and breezes blow, and birds sing, and 
 where Spring, lightly tripping away from the tropics, 
 scatters roses forever. 
 
 Tba aid Blarris Samet^rij;. 
 
 The square now occupied by the vast building of the 
 Mutual Storage Company, was once an attractive burial 
 place. It is four acres in area, and bounded on two 
 sides by South and Main streets. The place was knowri 
 
The old Morris Cemetery 
 
 as Morris Cemetery. Half of it had been sold in small 
 lots to persons who had deposited within it the remains 
 of their kindred or friends. Memphis was growing rap- 
 idly, and in 1859, when Capt. Lenow became President 
 of Elmwood Association, Morris Cemetery was com- 
 monly regarded, save by a few of its lot-owners, almost 
 a public nuisance, being within a rapidly growing part 
 of the city, and to President Lenow was assigned the 
 difficult and thankless task of transferring bodies from 
 the old graveyard to Elmwood. He encountered num- 
 berless obstacles. Popular prejudices were aroused, 
 and the tedious, annoying task was persistently prose- 
 cuted through three years. 
 
 The Elmwood Association gave a lot in Elmwood for 
 each lot in the old Cemetery that had been sold, and 
 paid all costs incident to the transfer of bodies and 
 tombstones, and paid in money for the unsold ground. 
 When the work was done the people were well pleased, 
 and none better than lot-owners in the old graveyard. 
 Then it was proposed by Capt. Lenow and his asso- 
 ciates, that the old Morris Cemetery should be sold to 
 the city government for city bonds, that a permanent 
 fund for the maintenance of Elmwood might be created. 
 For ten years the property was held, and proffered to 
 the city, at a price less than that recently given for it by 
 merchants of Memphis ; and thus another beneficent 
 purpose of the original owners of Elmwood was defeated. 
 They proposed to have the old Cemetery converted by 
 the city into a public square, so sadly needed in south- 
 ern districts of Memphis. The old Morris Cemetery^ 
 that exists no longer, and is now the scene of the busiest 
 daily mercantile events in Memphis, was established by 
 an old and worthy citizen of Memphis. Walter B. Morris^ 
 
74 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 of whose virtues and public spirit it was the last memo- 
 rial. His body rests now in Elmwood, beside that of 
 his estimable wife. He was buried originally in Morris 
 Cemetery, while she, having died in November, 1873, 
 at Pacific Place, in Arkansas, the residence of her son 
 Charles, was recently interred in Elmwood. She w^as 
 the daughter of Col. George Elliott, of Sumner County, 
 the intimate friend and associate of Andrew Jackson, 
 The daughter inherited the noblest virtues of her father, 
 and a better mother or wife rests not in this great depos- 
 itory of the dead. 
 
 CAUTION TO FLOWER DEPREDATORS. 
 
 A holy sanctity, from heaven descended, invests with 
 security every tree and shrub and flower that grows 
 green in spring time, or diffuses fragrance, or smiles 
 with radiant beauty within the confines of the Cemetery. 
 They are more than ordinary thieves who rob the homes 
 of the dead of charms with which to adorn the abodes of 
 the living ; and yet there are thieves so utterly depraved 
 that they deliberately destroy beauties which no skill in 
 art, or tireless toil, can resupply. No flower or vase will 
 be suffered by the gate-keepers to be removed from the 
 Cemetery. None may violate this rule with impunity, 
 unless allowed by a special permit from the Superin- 
 tendent. Moreover, the sum of twenty dollars will be 
 paid for information that will lead to the arrest and 
 
Extract from Report of President Lenoiv. 75 
 
 conviction of any one who forgets, when in Ehiiwood, 
 that he treads upon holy ground. The guardians of the 
 Cemetery, Gate-keepers, Watchmen and Superintend- 
 ent, are invested by law with the rights and powers of 
 policemen ; and those infringing rules made for the 
 protection of the Cemetery, and of its trees and flowers, 
 will be arrested and punished. The Association will 
 prosecute any offender in this behalf with the utmost 
 vigor ; giving, through their vigilance, the same fostering 
 protection to the wild flowers, nature's beneficent gift to 
 the holy place, as to those planted by affection's hand 
 and watered by sorrow's silent tears. The place, and all 
 that it contains, is hallowed in our hearts, and in our 
 memories. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF PRESIDENT LENOW TO 
 THE STOCKHOLDERS, MARCH 1, 1860. 
 
 " The grounds at Elmwood are rapidly increasing in 
 attractiveness and beauty ; and it is to be hoped the 
 main object, in organizing the Company, will never be 
 lost sight of, to-wit : The creation, in our vicinity, of a 
 resting place for the dead in harmony with the improved 
 taste and refinement of the age. A spot, so far from 
 being repulsive, and associated in our minds with deso- 
 lation and death, will, by its cooling shades, its tasteful 
 walks, its perpetual verdure, and trees of every clime, 
 be one around which we will delight to linger, hallowed 
 as it must be by ties and sympathies the most cherished 
 and sacred." 
 
TREES. 
 
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 Feelings of pain akin to horror have been excited 
 when lot-owners of Elmwood have proposed the remo- 
 val of grand old trees, whose presence fills the place 
 with solemn beauty. A moment's reflection presents 
 the proposition in an aspect so repulsive that we are 
 very sure it will never be executed. The Board of 
 Trustees will never assent to the inconsiderate demand. 
 If persons of peculiar tastes object to the presence of 
 trees, they may purchase lots on which trees never 
 grew. If they own lots overshadowed by oaks and elms, 
 the Trustees will exchange for these other property, on 
 which no waving branches will ever cast cool refreshing 
 shadows, where forest birds will never sing nature's 
 hymns of praise, the sweetest lullabies ever chanted over 
 those that sleep beneath the sod. 
 
 Every human heart instinctively loves beautiful and 
 graceful trees, and poets have unceasingly pointed out 
 the close analogy between the forest and the human 
 
The Trees of Holy Writ. ']'] 
 
 family. In the woods, as among men, stand the hoary 
 ancestors, the mature and vigorous by their side, bud- 
 ding infancy at their feet. There they stand, the beau- 
 tiful and the ugly, the crooked and straight, wholesome 
 and poisonous, fruitful and barren, living and dead ; 
 some dying in ripe old age, and others uprooted in 
 the wild tornadoes of youth ; the many crushed in 
 infancy, a perfect symbol of the human family. Our 
 feelings deepen into reverence as the mind ponders over 
 the strange revelations of inner truth these voiceless 
 teachers silently convey to thinking men, and clearer 
 grows the eternal law of analogy between mankind and 
 the trees. 
 
 TREES SACRED. 
 
 There are strange things predicated of trees in Holy 
 Writ, and we marvel to see them spoken of as rational 
 beings, having understandings, wills and muscular 
 powers, so that they walk, talk, laugh and sing, worship 
 and rejoice, and clap their hands, are happy and some- 
 times miserable ; now strong, now weak, one day in an 
 Eden of glory, and the next a prey to storm or fire. Our 
 Lord cursed a barren tree. Surely the tree itself, 
 unconscious and helpless, could not have excited His 
 indignation, but as He only spoke in parables, and often 
 acted parables, it is reasonable to infer that the tree 
 represented some principle of the human mind which 
 was opposed to divine goodness or wisdom, and was a 
 lesson in symbols for His hearers. The world is the 
 kindergarteii for His children, and through natural 
 objects He teaches spiritual truths, and by the light of a 
 divine science we learn how every shade and tint of 
 man's affections will be found in the beasts ; all his 
 
78 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 thoughts in the birds of the air, all his intellectual prin- 
 ciples in the trees in whose branches the birds build 
 nests, and he who runs may read the lesson on every 
 page of nature, and prove it by the Word of God. We 
 plead earnestly with these painfully practical people for 
 our beloved trees, with grateful memories of their 
 tireless, loving watches over the precious dead, when 
 only the stars look down on the dreariness and silence of 
 the grave, or storms lash their brave, wide-spread arms 
 that would shield our beloved from their fury. 
 
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 Nearly four thousand years ago, the HebreAV patriarch 
 inculcated proper lessons affecting the decoration of 
 Cemeteries, and the selection of their sites. He said, 
 "let us have the field, and all the trees that are in the 
 field and that are in the borders round about, and let 
 them be made sure, for the possession of a burying 
 place." Hebrews, from the hour the patriarch spoke, 
 have ever watched and guarded their burial places with 
 relioflous care. The most attractive sites were selected 
 by them in the midst of most beautiful gardens or for- 
 ests, or on verdure -clad mountain sides. Ancient 
 Asiatics, as did the Romans, lined approaches to centers 
 of populations with sarcophagi, and enduring memorials 
 and monuments, and tombs, rose -embowered, stood 
 among lofty palms, beyond the walls of oriental cities. 
 The Greeks rarely buried the dead within their cities. 
 Their cenotaphs stood in the midst of shady groves, 
 filled with music by murmuring streams, that sang lulla- 
 bies and rendered the word " Cemetery," signifying a 
 
Elniwood Cemetejy. 
 
 place of repose, singularly appropriate when applied to 
 our last resting places. Germans, when Caesar wrote 
 of them, were wont to bury their dead in groves conse- 
 crated by their priests. The early Christians, shunning 
 persecution, found proper temples in the densest forests, 
 and beneath their moaning branches, buried their dead. 
 In ancient Egypt, the pine was deemed significant of 
 immortality. Virgil tells, in flowing numbers, of mourn- 
 ful sounds that echo among sighing pines, when soft 
 winds creep among the branches of the bending trees, 
 and calls them musical : 
 
 " The pines of Menelaus were heard to mourn, 
 And sounds of woe along the groves were borne." 
 
 Allusions to the woods and forests of Syria and Pales- 
 tine constitute illustrations of thought in the most 
 beautifully poetical chapters of the Bible. Jehovah said, 
 " I will plant in the wilderness the cedar. I will set in 
 the desert the fir tree and the pine." A heaven- 
 descended sanctity is exhaled from trees and flowers, 
 and especially from those that bend over sepultures, and 
 load with perfumes breezes that toy among monuments 
 reared in honor of the great, the humble, the aged, the 
 young and beautiful of our race. 
 
 We trust that the desecration of the beautiful Ceme- 
 tery, involved in the destruction of trees, will never be 
 permitted. The discontented can easily find barren 
 ground, and the Trustees of the Cemetery will suffer 
 any one that chooses to augment, but never lessen, the 
 number of trees in Elmwood. 
 
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 Gateway to Life. 
 
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 " Tl^f 6'raz'c j//i;«A/ be surroimded by everything that might inspire tenderness 
 and veneration for the dead, or that might win the living to virtue. It is a place 
 not of disgust and dismay, but of sorro^v and meditation." — WASHINGTON IRVING. 
 
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 Epitaphs should be modest, or they become absurd, and however 
 just in the eyes of deathless love that writes them, often seem to the 
 indifferent multitude ludicrously and painfully exaggerated, in stilted 
 language used, and in assertions of the worth of the dead. It is 
 worse than needless to ascribe virtues to the dead, of which the living 
 were wholly ignorant, and it were infinitely wiser, since the best of us 
 have our confessed weaknesses, to specify the peculiar virtues of the 
 departed, and leave silence, on bended knees, to crave the oblivion of 
 fatal defects. Modest simplicity and exact truthfulness should char- 
 acterize each inscription on every tomb ; or, if this be not approved, 
 let the carved legend only tell the name and age and deeds of the 
 dead. Pericles accepted this suggestion when he refused to have even 
 his name carved beneath his bust. If not recognized without the 
 inscription, he did not deem himself worthy of it. If the dead 
 deserve praise, and they who read epitaphs owe a debt of gratitude, 
 it will be the more cheerfully paid when most modestly exacted. 
 Epitaphs, besides the avoidance of excessive eulogy, should be simple 
 in style, and, while resignation and calmness are expected in places of 
 •Christian sepulture, coldness and studied effects cannot be approved. 
 In a word, let the lines of an epitaph be : — 
 
 " Simple and few, tender and true." 
 
 SUBDIVISIONS OF ELMWOOD. 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery, as appears upon the map of the place, is sub- 
 divided into six sections ; four of these are named and two are not. 
 The names are Chapel Hill, Fowler, Turley, and South Grove. 
 These sections are subdivided into lots, except portions of Chapel 
 Hill and South Grove. Two sections have never been defined, or 
 sold, or named. All the sections are laid off in reference to the con- 
 formation of the ground — its hills and valleys. A circle crowns the 
 summit of Chapel Hill, known as Chapel Hill Circle, and there is 
 a,nother like it in Turley Section, known as Lenow Circle ; both 
 circles are subdivided into lots, with a reserved circle in the center 
 ■of each, on which pagodas and fountains are to be erected. 
 
The Maihar^s ©ffermg;* 
 
 " Flowers are wanted in Heaven to-day," 
 
 An angel said to me ; 
 " And we have enough, save a few more buds — 
 
 J 'our little bud I would see." 
 
 1 turned me about and brought forth mj' child ; 
 'J'he angel looked in her tace and smiled ; 
 
 " There is nothing fairer on high," said he ; 
 
 " I will take this bud it it pleaselh thee." 
 
 I looked at the child, and I thought, " Alas ! 
 Life is ever as brittle as glass. 
 
 In manhood as in infancy ; 
 Some day when my bud doth wider ope; 
 Just when the full-blown flower, I hope. 
 
 It may fade, and droop, and die. 
 
 Or if riDt so, yet in coming years 
 (In this sad world so full of snares). 
 
 As my flower I stoop to kiss. 
 It may be my lot to weep and start, 
 As I see coiled up, in its inmost heart, 
 
 A serpent with venomed hiss ! 
 
 It may fall to me— ah ! who can tell? — 
 In after years to remember well. 
 
 What the angel asked to-day ; 
 And to wish, with many and many a tear, 
 1 had parted that day with my bud so dear. 
 
 And granted my God His way." 
 
 I will do this now. In the realms on high 
 My bud shall never more " sorrow or cry," 
 
 My bud never fade or fall — 
 And I will not think of the dreary tomb : 
 1 will look above where my flower doth bloom, 
 
 I will have -ao funeral pall. 
 
 For this is not Death, with the sombre wing ; 
 'Tis but transplanting the dear little thing 
 
 To the garden of my God. 
 Ah, me I I shall miss her — that I know ! 
 But I will not call this a cruel blow. 
 Nor say, " I have felt the rod." 
 
 So I took my babe to my loving breast 
 
 And nursed, and soothed, and sung her to rest ; 
 
 The angel, meanwhile, smiled — 
 " She is sleeping," I said, " let her not awake. 
 Till the glory of God arrund her break ! " 
 
 And I gave him 7ity little child. 
 
 Then I turned and bowed me low to the ground ; 
 3 rose — neither angel nor child I found 1 
 }jut I have no fears, and 1 love to think 
 Of the lilies above at the fountain's brink. 
 And I quiet my heart with the precious thought, 
 "My child is with God, and can lack for nought;" 
 And I know that sotnetime—\i\\fiVL God shall please- 
 will meet her again 'neath the shadowless trees. 
 
Happily Time niellows mid softens the past. It not only ameliorates 
 ats harshness, removes the asperities of grief, and brings oblivion to 
 cast its mantle over old contests, but lifts us out of our narrow self- 
 fflshness into the largeness and catholicity of humanity, and into sym- 
 ipathy with the brotherhood of man. Here and to-day the pettiness 
 < four lives engrosses us; our struggles, our toil, our triumphs and 
 failures, and our tears, are all the world to us. We constantly magnify 
 and dwell upon them ; but when we draw away from them and wander 
 among the graves of those whose lives were much the same with ours, 
 these woes grow less and less, and fade away at last into very noth- 
 ingness. It were well if the living were oftener imbued with wisdom 
 :3nd divinest charity, inculcated by the silent eloquence of the dead. 
 We will surely exercise a sounder philosophy, and profounder christian 
 charity, if we constantly gather tender memories, not only of those we 
 loved, of our own friends and kindred, but of those from whom we 
 differed. Death is the leveler of our race, and in the grave, whatever 
 feults and mistakes characterized the living, all are brothers. Learn 
 lessons inculcated by Monuments in Elmwood, and your own lives 
 will be made fragrant and beautiful, and your aspirations heightened 
 by tender and affectionate memories thus awakened. 
 
 Jesse Allen, the father of Thomas H. Allen, the latter a most 
 successful merchant, of Mempliis, died July 15, 1857, in the 80th year 
 ©f his age. In attestation of the virtues of the father, the son caused 
 a tasteful gothic monument, of Italian marble, to lift its stately, 
 chaste proportions above the father's grave. The base is of variegated 
 marble, four feet square, while the white marble shaft that rises above 
 it, is sixteen feet in height. The Allen lot is on Evergreen Avenue. 
 
86 Elniwood- Cemetery. 
 
 E. M. Apperson has expended a deal of money, and exercised 
 excellent good taste in perfecting the attractiveness of lot No. 6, in 
 Turley Section, on Central Avenue. From its midst rises an elabo- 
 rately carved white marble monument, twenty feet high. The central 
 portion is twice the height of shorter columns, one on either side, 
 carved from the same marble block. On these two stand beautiful 
 figures of Faith and Hope, and on the summit of the loftiest shaft the 
 Archangel appears, trumpet in hand, to call those that rest below tO' 
 a final reckoning. Gabriel looks and points heavenward, and the 
 story of man's future life is told most effectively by the speechless' 
 stone. Muldoon, Bullett & Co., designed and executed this monument. 
 
 Armstronc4. — A gray granite shaft, heavy square, unpolished, lifts^- 
 its imposing, massive shape in the center of a circular lot in Chapet 
 Hill Section, to tell posterity where rest the ashes of Alice E. and 
 John Walton Armstrong. This monument is admirable for its tasteful- 
 simplicity, and above all for its indestructible freshness and durability- 
 It will stand firm and strong and unimpaired through countless coming 
 years, while marble will be blackened by time and made rough by 
 frosts of successive winters. This massive pillar of stone is twenty- 
 three feet high, designating the grave of a most fascinating and 
 admirable woman. 
 
 Enoch Banks. — A plain, square, marble shaft, eighteen feet in- 
 height, and resting on a heavy sandstone pediment, distinguishes the- 
 grave of Enoch Banks, ex-Mayor of Memphis. The monument is on 
 Central Avenue. 
 
 Geraldus Buntyn. — A tastefully and elaborately carved fluted 
 column, the handiwork of John White, the artist stone-cutter who 
 wrought out the first monument that lifts its pale white face above the 
 sod in Eltnwood, designates the last resting of Geraldus Buntyn, of 
 whom we tell in another place. This light, gracefully-drained Corinth- 
 ian pillar, is fifteen feet high, and looks down upon Central Avenue., 
 in Turley Section. 
 
The Monutnents. 87 
 
 Edwin Campbell, of Campbellspcnt, Ohio, died in New Orleans in 
 1870, sixty-one years of age. He was interred in lot 34, Lenow 
 Circle, and an admirable square, Scotch granite monument, elabo- 
 rately wrought, lifts its stately proportions above his last resting 
 place. His widow erected the monument, and carefully adorns the 
 lot on which it stands. 
 
 E. E. Clai;k has erected on his lot, on Chapel Hill Circle and 
 Prospect Avenue, an enduring and massive octagonal column of white 
 marble, eighteen feet high, resting on an indestructible limestone 
 base. It is suggestive of durability rather than of beauty, and is not 
 the less tasteful and admirable as a monument to solid wortli. 
 
 J. C. Davis, on a most carefully watched and decorated lot, on 
 Chapel Hill, its narrow walks paved as was the courts of ancient tem- 
 ples, has erected a monument of Parian stone. Its graceful proportions 
 and modest inscriptions tell of the worth and garnered memories of 
 his wife. The marble shaft is eighteen feet high, and on its sides are 
 inscribed legends that properly assert the virtues of the dead. This 
 monument is on Prospect Avenue. Executed by H. 8cheer. 
 
 Dr. Dudley Dunn. — Two square, tapering marble shafts, two feet 
 apart, and connected by an arch si)ringing from the middle of each 
 pillar, tell the simple annals of the life and death of Dr. Dudley and 
 his Avife, Paulina A. Dunn. They were of the earliest white inhabi- 
 tants of this county, and deserved, for their many virtues, this 
 enduring attestation of honest worth. The monument is in Fowler 
 Section. 
 
 Wm. T. Driver. — A square, massive pillar of Grecian marble, 
 tapering from its base to its summit, designates the grave of Major 
 Driver. On a shield, in bold relief, projecting from one of its sides, is 
 inscribed much the same story as that told of Major Driver in another 
 place. This deserved attestation in stone of a true soldier's worth is 
 in Chapel Hill Circle. 
 
88 Ehnwood Cemetery. 
 
 Claiborne DeLoach. — A magnificent and costly monument desig- 
 nates the grave of Claiborne DeLoach, a once prosperous merchant 
 -of Memphis. A marble pillar, twenty-seven feet high, crowned with 
 a graceful figure of Hope leaning upon an anchor, rises above the 
 tomb. This lofty pillar is supported by a pi-ojection on either side of 
 half its own height. These are crowned by urns, finished with pains- 
 taking skill and exquisite taste. This monument is in Chapel Hill 
 Section, on Evergreen Avenue, and was made by Muldoon, Bullett 
 <&;Co. 
 
 The GooDLETT monument stands on Woodland Avenue, lot 1(3, in 
 South Grove Section, tastefully enclosed with marble curbing. In 
 the center of the lot stands a beautifully carved octagonal marble 
 shaft, fifteen feet high. On the dye is an elaborately wrought 
 wreath of flowers of most exquisite workmanship. An admirably 
 well-proportioned urn, beautifully draped, crowns the summit of the 
 marble pillar, made by jNIaydwell & Anderson. 
 
 Capt. Angus Greenlaw, the navigator, through a brief but vigor- 
 ous and active life of the " inland sea," of which Calhoun spoke, is 
 entombed on the lot of his son-in-law, Maj. J. A, Lea. A marble block, 
 very like a steamer's capstan, about which a cable is entwined, and to 
 this an anchor attached, stands at the head of his grave. The design 
 is pleasing and well-executed. This lot is No. 272, in Fowler's Sec- 
 tion, on the Grand Tour, and is constantly visited by navigators of 
 the Mississippi. Executed by Maydwell & Anderson. 
 
 \V. B. and J. O. Greenlaw.^ — ^The lives of these brothers were aii 
 inseparable unity. They owned evei-ything in common, and consti- 
 tuted, as illustrated by the broken corinthian column that marks their 
 chosen burial place, a single pillar of strength and resistless force. 
 This column, broken in twain, one-half its length lying beside the 
 grave, the other erect, tells of Oliver Gi-eenlaw's death, and that 
 Borden survives. Properly attesting the worth of one of earth's true 
 nobility, the monument attracts many to Central Avenue. Executed 
 by Fisher & Amis. 
 
The Mo7iuine7its. 89 
 
 Barnett GiiAiiAiSr. — An Italian marble column, twenty feet in 
 height, marks the burial place of Barnett Graham. A draped urn 
 surmounts the substantial shaft that stands in Fowler's Section. It 
 was made by those skillful builders of monuments, Maydwell & 
 Anderson. 
 
 W. A. GooDWYN. — The monument erected above the graves of 
 of his children by W. A. Goodwyn, will attract attention for its 
 height, and for the taste that planned, and skill that made it. It 
 is a heavy, square marble shaft, twenty feet high, with a beautiful 
 figure of an angel, in bold relief, on its side," near the summit. This 
 gracefully shaped stone is on lots 132 and 133, in Fowler's Section. 
 
 <JoL. AVm. It. Hunt. — The very tasteful monument which marks 
 the burial place of Wm. R. Hunt is wrought out of Italian marble. 
 Its pedestal is of Quincy granite, three feet in thickness, while the 
 heavy marble dye, six feet high, richly carved, and having proper 
 inscriptions on an elaborately wrought shield, in bold relief, is 
 surmounted by an angel's statue, deemed an admirable work of art. 
 This monument, made by Muldoon, Bullett & Co.. is in the same lot 
 with that of Major Driver. 
 
 Thomas A. Hamilton. — A magnificent white marble monument 
 attests the virtues and worth of Mrs. Hamilton. The central column 
 is twenty-five feet high. A shield, in bold relief, on wdiich a legend 
 recites the story of the life and death of the wife, adorns a face of the 
 stainless stone. The central shaft is supported on either side by pro- 
 jections of half the height of the main column, and each of these is 
 surmounted by an urn, elaborately carved and ornamented. Funereal 
 torches appear to illumine the scroll on which the simple incidents of 
 woman's life and death are graven. The words " my wife," catch the 
 eye of every wanderer in Elmwood, and as sad recollections rise up 
 from the dreamland of memory, each visitor reads, in tenderest accents 
 as he wanders on, the brief recital. This costly monument is on 
 Chapel Hill Circle. 
 
90 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 W. B, Hajilin owns a beautiful lot, constantly decorated with 
 flowers, and carefully guarded. Its narrow walks are prettily adorned, 
 and wreaths of roses or evergreens are often twined about two tasteful 
 marble monuments, twelve and fifteen feet high. This lot is on 
 Chapel Hill. 
 
 R. S. Jones has erected on lot 2B1, in Turley Section, on Central 
 Avenue, a white, fluted column of Italian Marble, twenty feet high. 
 An elaborately carved cinerary urn crowns the summit of this family 
 monument. Executed by Fisher & Amis. 
 
 John Kerr, by birth a North Carolinian, and of late years a 
 merchant of Augusta, Georgia, and later still a land-owner of Mem- 
 phis, died here in 1870, seventy-eight years of age. A Doric 
 column of purest white marble, twenty feet high, and of massive 
 proportions, distinguishes his grave. On the summit of the shaft an 
 angel stands resting upon an anchor. This attractive monument is on- 
 Central Avenue. 
 
 Daniel Lake has caused to be erected above his wife's grave a 
 beautifully polished column of Scotch granite, the shaft eighteen feet 
 high. It stands in Chapel Hill Circle, and is worthy of the attention 
 it constantly attracts. It is not only most beautiful, but most durable, 
 and will tell many coming generations of the living and dead of our 
 time. 
 
 James J. Robson was the jjartner of Thomas H. Allen, of Mem- 
 phis, He died in New Orleans, of yellow fever, in 1853, and above 
 his grave the hand of friendship and affection has reared an admir- 
 ably carved and tasteful monument of whitest marble. There is not 
 in Elmwood a more symmetrical and beautifully finished memorial 
 than this, which tells us where an honest merchant rests. It is on 
 Evergreen Avenue. 
 
The Monuments. 91 
 
 John Stratton has caused a splendid monument to lift its stately 
 proportions above his father's grave. It is an Italian marble shaft, 
 twenty-five feet high, octagonal, with Corinthian capital, and a 
 massive and beautifully carved urn upon its summit. It is on Oak 
 Avenue, in Chapel Hill Section. 
 
 Ella Shock. — A pretty fancy is expressed in the Italian marble on 
 which Captain Sam Shock has inscribed his daughter Ella's name. 
 Beside the rough block of enduring stone a cross, constituting a part 
 of the Tinpolished marble, is lifted up. A morning glory twines its 
 blossoming tendrils about it, and a lily blooms above it, and above the 
 cross is inscribed the word "Ella." This tasteful and unique memo- 
 rial of love and grief is on Evergreen Avenue, in Chapel Hill 
 Section. 
 
 Fred. W. Smith, the banker, has erected a massive square pillar of 
 Italian marble, resting on a heavy sandstone base, to designate the 
 burial place of his father and mother. This substantial tribute, made 
 by filial affection, is in Chapel Hill Section. The father, like the son, 
 was a life-long banker. He was Cashier of the Branch Planters - 
 Bank, at Pulaski, and afterward at LaGrange, and later, at Memphis. 
 Like James Penn, so long Cashier of the Planters Bank, he died with 
 fame as unsullied as that of the Institution whose fortunes he pro- 
 moted. The names of such men, and their deeds, deserve to have 
 their worth attested by ever-enduring stone. 
 
 Agnes Wyatt Tucker. — A mai-ble cross, most elaborately carved 
 from the purest, whitest marble, having an exquisitely finished wreath 
 twined about it, designates the grave of the charming girl whose name- 
 appears above. Rustic stonework, eight feet high, constitutes the 
 pediment and support of the cross, and about it, each bright day in 
 spring and summer, the young and beautiful and true of Memphis are 
 gathered to deck with fairest flowers this spot, almost hallowed by the 
 presence of death. Death surely never found a victim more beautiful 
 or more beloved. This excellent specimen of the sculptor's art is on 
 lot 23, in Fowler's Section. Executed by Maydwell & Anderson. 
 
92 Elniwood Cemetery. 
 
 Henry C. Walker, who was buried in New Orleans, erected here, 
 over the remains of his wife, a daughter of the late John Trigg, a 
 massive square pillar of Italian marble. Its summit is adorned with 
 Egyptian carving, and the entablature wrought by skillful hands and 
 patient toil. Above the whole rises up a beautifully finished urn. 
 This monument is in Chapel Hill Section. 
 
 J. H. "Waggener has evinced a commendable degree of originality 
 in adorning his lot in Elmwood, There is nothing like the pretty 
 sea-shell, carved out of marble — a gracefully -shaped vase filled with ' 
 flowers sitting within it — in the Cemetery. This tribute of affec- 
 tion to children sleeping beneath the sea-shell, Avhich chants forever 
 a sad requiem in behalf of the young and beautiful, was happily 
 conceived and artistically wrought out by the sculptor. The lot is 
 well cared for. Fresh flowers often shed their fragrance about the 
 ■spot, and there are many who follow Central Avenue to find the sin- 
 gular tribute to childhood's beauty, taste and loveliness tendered by 
 J. H. Waggener. Executed by J. W. Anderson. 
 

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 Come to the silent city, 
 
 Enter its shadows gray ; 
 On through its winding labyrinths 
 
 Reverently, slowly stray. 
 Hear the moan of the waving trees, 
 List the dirge of the sighing breeze 
 Tolling its myriad memories. 
 
 Hopefully laid away. 
 
 Dawn on the breathless city 
 
 Heralds the coming day ; 
 Floating banners of rose and snow 
 
 Mingle with pearl and gray, 
 Telling how snow-white infancy — 
 Rosy flushes and beaming eye. 
 Still and cold and pulseless lie. 
 
 Tearfully laid away. 
 
 Noon on the gleaming city 
 
 Pours its refulgent ray, 
 Flooding alike the Parian stone 
 
 And the pauper's nameless clay ; 
 Telling its tale of manhood's prime 
 And maidenhood's radiant blossom time; 
 Hopes and visions and dreams sublime 
 
 Silently laid away. 
 
 Eve o'er the shadow city ! 
 
 Autumn winds softly play, 
 Whirling the dying autumn flowers 
 
 O'er the pulseless clay ; 
 Weaving the crown the just receives. 
 Telling of crowns the victor weaves. 
 Purpling clusters and crimson leaves. 
 Fruitful lives, with their golden sheaves 
 
 Garnered and laid away. 
 
 Night o'er the dreamless city 
 
 Steals with her shadows gray ; 
 Silent warders or. Heaven's heights 
 
 Fold their white wings to pray ; 
 Telling of pilgrims, travel-worn, 
 Quietly laying their burdens down. 
 Sinking to rest with the setting sun. 
 And peacefully laid away. 
 
There is ita Beatb* 
 
 BY SIR KULWER LYTTOX. 
 
 There is no death. The stars go down 
 To rise upon some fairer shore ; 
 
 And bright in heaven's jeweled crown 
 They shine for evermore. 
 
 There is no death. The dust we tread 
 Shall change beneath the summer shower 
 
 To golden grain or mellow fruit. 
 Or rainbow-tinted flower. 
 
 The granite rocks disorganize. 
 And feed the hungry moss they bear ; 
 
 The forest leaves drink daily life 
 From out the viewless air. 
 
 There is no death. The leaves may fall 
 And flowers may fade and pass away ; 
 
 They only wait, through wintrj- hours. 
 The coming of the May. 
 
 There is no death. An angel-form 
 Walks o'er the earth with silent tread, 
 
 And bears our best-loved ones away ; 
 And then we call them "dead." 
 
 'He leaves our hearts all desolate. 
 
 He plucks our sweetest, fairest flowers ; 
 Transplanted into bliss, they now 
 Adorn immortal bowers. 
 
 The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones 
 Made glad these scenes of sin and strife, 
 
 Sings now an everlasting song 
 Around the tree of life. 
 
 ■ Where'er he sees a smile too bright. 
 Or heart too pure for taint and vice. 
 He bears it to that world of light 
 To dwell in Paradise. 
 
 Born unto that undying life, 
 They leave us but to come again ; 
 
 With joy we welcome them — the same. 
 Except in sin and pain. 
 
 And ever near us, though unseen, 
 The dear immortal spirits tread; 
 'For all this boundless universe 
 Is life — there are no dead. 
 

 HON. STEPHEN ADAMS 
 
 Was boru iu Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1804, whence 
 his parents, in 1807, migrated to Tennessee. A lawyer, in his 
 twenty-sixth year he was also State Senator, representing Warren 
 and Franklin counties. In 1834 he became a citizen of Aberdeen, 
 Miss., and in 1837 was chosen Circuit Judge. He was re-elected, 
 and served in this office till 1845, when he was elected to the 
 lower house of the Federal Congress, representing the State at large. 
 He withdrew, after his term of office expired, to private life, and 
 practiced law most successfully and profitably. In 1851, when the 
 secession movement was inaugurated in Mississippi, Judge Adams 
 was the most potent and effective opponent of Quitman, Davis, 
 Brown, Phelan and others, eloquent advocates of the proposed 
 policy. In this contest Judge Adams was everywhere triumphant, 
 and the State voted as he advised by a large majority. In the Avinter 
 of 1851-2 Judge Adams was elected, in a contest with the Hon. 
 Jefferson Davis, to the United States Senate, to fill the unexpired 
 term of H. S. Foote, made Governor iu that year. The Senator's 
 term expired in March, 1857, w'hen he made Memphis his home, only 
 to die on the following 11th of May. Senator Adams boasted 
 neither of scholastic attainments, nor of brilliant, striking intellectual 
 qualities. His energj' was tireless, and his integrity unquestionable. 
 The people gave him unlimited confidence. His siDeeches, clear, 
 cogent, simple, were admirable specimens of consecutive thinking, and 
 of most effective popular oratory. " He had," as was said of 
 Hampden by Lord Clarendon, "a flowing courtesy to all men." No 
 man could be his enemy, and few could fail to be his friend. United 
 States Senator Albert Gallatin Brown said of Judge Adams, " No 
 truer man, no purer patriot, no warmer friend has ever gone to that 
 great city which lies beyond the tomb." 
 
96 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 GEN. JAMES PATTON ANDERSON 
 
 Was born in Franklin County, Tenn., February 12th, 1822. He was 
 graduated in Jefferson College, Penn., in 1842; went to Kentucky, 
 studied law in the office of Judge T. B. Monroe, and began the practice 
 at Hernando, Miss. In 1850 he Avas elected a member of the Legisla- 
 ture. In 1853 he was made Marshal of Washington Territory, and in 
 the same year was married to Miss H. B. Adair, of Kentucky. He 
 removed to Washington Territory, Avhence he was sent a delegate to the 
 Federal Congress, in 1855. At the expiration of his term he removed 
 to Florida, and represented a district of tliat State at Montgomery, Ala., 
 as a member of the Confederate Provisional Congress. Soon after the 
 expiration of his term, he became a Colonel, and then a Brigadier in 
 the C. S. Army. Before the battle of Chickamauga he was made a 
 Major-General, and on that bloody field was almost mortally wounded, 
 a bullet shattering his lower jaw. He came to Memphis after the 
 cessation of hostilities, and for a time conducted an agricultural paper, 
 and was then made Collector of past due State taxes. In this office 
 he died. His father was Col. Wm. P. Anderson, of the regular army, 
 and his mother, now Mrs. Margaret L. Bybee, is a resident of Mem- 
 phis. Gen. Anderson Avas endowed by nature, habit and training 
 with every quality of head and heart to win and retain the confidence 
 and friendship of men. He was tall and slender, lithe, active, grace- 
 ful in manner and bearing, with dark skin, black eyes, and aquiline, 
 well-shaped features. He was every inch a soldier, and everywhere a 
 thorough gentleman. He died aged 60, September 1st, 1872. 
 
 LIEUT. GOV. ROBERT M. ANDERSON. 
 
 Three sons of Col. Nat Anderson served as soldiers through the 
 Mexican war, Lieut. Edward M., Julius C, and Robert M. Anderson. 
 The remains of these three now rest near those of the father in 
 Elmwood. Robert M. Anderson, who inherited every admirable 
 quality of his father, began to practice law in Memphis in 1848, and 
 in 1852 became a citizen of California. He was there a prominent 
 party leader, and was chosen Lieut. Governor of the State. He 
 returned to Memphis in 1867, and died on his plantation in Arkansas 
 in 1872, in the forty-eighth year of his age. 
 
BiograpJiical Sketches. 97 
 
 MAJOR NAT. ANDERSON, 
 
 Born in Virginia,, came to Memphis ■with his wife, the sister of 
 Jacob N. Moon, in 1823. His original residence was at Big Spring, 
 afterward known as "Amalbene," where his friend, General 10. P. 
 Gaines, resided. It was subsequently the home of Tilman Bettis. 
 The place is on the Pigeon Roost Road, two and a half miles from 
 Memphis. About 1827 or 1828 Major Anderson built the first 
 attractive hotel in Memphis, at the corner of Main and Winchester 
 streets. T. G. Johnson was its lessee. It was called the City Hotel. 
 In 1835 he w^as of the New Orleans house of Fearne, Wilcox & Co., 
 afterwards of N. Anderson & Son, at Memphis, and Anderson, 
 Walker & Co., Memphis, and Anderson, Carr ct Co., New Orleans. 
 In 1846 he was made Quartermaster in the volunteer army engaged 
 in war with Mexico, and stationed at Point Isabel. lie retired at the 
 close of the war, commended for energy and skill, and his fame was 
 spotless. In 1849 he made the Bias Place, nine miles southeast of 
 Memphis, his home, where he resided at the date of his death. He 
 served, we forgot to state, in the fight at Craney Island, and in the 
 defense of Noi-folk in the war of 1812. No public enterprise in 
 Memphis, while he lived, ever lacked his material aid. He was the 
 first President of the old Farmers and Merchants Bank, of which 
 Charles Lofland was so long Cashier. At the fireside, as a citizen, 
 and in public service, he w^as deemed faultless. He w^as incapable of 
 meanness, of malice or hate, and no narrow^ base passion of selfish 
 greed abode in his great, generous heart. Happily for the city, which 
 he did so much to serve, if successive generations of its people could 
 be moulded by his example. He died March 9th, 1867, aged 
 seventy-one. 
 
 MAJOR PHIL. ALLIN. 
 
 Major Phil. Allin left Memphis in 1861 a Lieutenant in Captain 
 James H. Edmondson's Bluff City Grays. He served in this com- 
 mand and capacity at Belmont and Shiloh, and in these battles, as in 
 many subsequent conflicts, evinced extraordinary coolness and heroism. 
 He was transferred to the cavalry service, and was one of the most 
 brilliant and dashing officers whose genius for war was inspired or 
 evoked by Gen. N. B. Forrest. Major Allin was a favorite officer of 
 his commanding general, and when delicate trusts or daring duties 
 
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98 Ebnwood Cemetery. 
 
 Avere to be (li.scharged, was almost constantly selected to lead tlie 
 way. Never a soldier came out of the war between the States with a 
 brighter escutcheon than the intrepid, generous, admirable gentleman 
 and officer, Phil. Allin. He died in Memphis in 1869, about thirty 
 years of age. It was no mean tribute to his worth that one of the 
 swiftest and prettiest steamers on the Missi.ssippi bears the ever- 
 honored name, Phil Allin. 
 
 O. C. ATKINSON, 
 
 Born in Virginia, came to Memphis, an ironmonger, in 1886. In 
 trade he was eminently successful. His sagacity was marvelous, 
 industry tireless, and habits of economy remarkable. He accumu- 
 lated wealth very rapidly. In religious practices he was even more 
 earnest than in pursuits of everyday life. His generosity to the poor 
 and unfortunate, and to the church, was perhaps without parallel in 
 Memphis. In the later years of his life he abandoned mercantile 
 pursuits, and was a private banker on Front street. He died Novem- 
 ber 7th, 1864, sixty-two years of age, especially esteemed and 
 beloved by the Methodist Church, of which he was a devout and 
 active member. 
 
 A costly and tasteful monument, a lithographic picture of which 
 appears in this volume, designates his grave in Elm wood. 
 
 REV. D. J. ALLEN, 
 
 Born August 24, 1808, in Charleston, S. C. ; became a Methodist in 
 1829, and a citizen of Tennessee in 1836, joining the Memphis Con- 
 ference in 1840. He remained with this body of Christians, save for 
 a brief period spent in Camden, Arkansas, till his death. lie filled 
 many important positions, and was twice a member of the General 
 Conference. When his health Avas so seriously impaired that he 
 could not preach, he became a school teacher. In this capacity he 
 was as efiicient as in the pulpit. He served the Hernando street 
 Methodist Episcopal Church during the war, and the members of this 
 congregation especially revere the name, virtues, deeds and memory 
 of the excellent priest and pastor. He died, after a long and tedious 
 sickness, in April, 1868, asserting sublime faith in God's goodness, and 
 in his own eternal blessedness. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 99 
 
 SYLVESTER BAILEY 
 
 Was born in New York, and was a citizen of Memplus about thirty 
 years. He was trained for the bar, and, while his oj)inions were 
 eminently trustworthy, and his mastery of his profession thorough, he 
 never won or sought distinction as a barrister. Patient and laboi'ious, 
 •making no pretensions to eloquence, his speeches were conversational, 
 and often most effective. He served as Judge of the County Court 
 through a long series of years, and, if living, would doubtless fill to-day 
 the place upon which he reflected dignity and honor. He Avas con- 
 nected by marriage with Judges W. B. and Thomas J. Turley. He 
 ^ied October, 18G4, aged sixty-five. 
 
 WILLIAM BRINKLEY, 
 
 Born January 10, 1791, in North Carolina. He becaiiie a INIethod- 
 ist in 1811, and was ever afterward distinguished for his rigid adhesion 
 to precepts illustrated by his Great Exemplar. He became a citizen 
 of Madison county, Tenn., in 1834, and after residing some years 
 later in Marshall county, Miss., he came to Memphis, where he died 
 July, 1866, exemplifying in his death the sublimity and strength of 
 simple virtues that had distinguished his faultless life. He was the 
 father of Robert C. and John H. Brinkley. 
 
 MAJOR JOHN YANCEY BAYLESS 
 
 Was born in 1791, in Columbia county, Georgia, and educated at the 
 State University at Athens, where he was associated with Wm. C. 
 Dawson, David E. Twiggs, Wm. L. Yancey, George N. Sanders, 
 Tom and Howell Cgbb, and others, afterwards fomous. He came to 
 Tennessee in 1833, and was a rich and successful cotton planter at 
 .Stanton. He became a citizen and merchant of Memphis and of New 
 Orleans in 1835. The Memphis firm was Bayless, Gholson & Hart, 
 and Reynolds, Byrne & Co., of New Orleans. Those were disastrous 
 commercial years from 1837 to 1842. Major Bajless, in 1843, 
 returned to Memphis, where he died in 1863. He was an original 
 member and founder of the First Baptist Church of Memphis, and 
 assisted in the organization of the first Odd Fellows' Lodge that ever 
 existed in this city. The ApjJeal, published in Jackson, Miss., in 
 
lOO Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 1863, Avhen Col. Bayless died, said of him, that "ripe in years,, 
 beloved of his family, admired of his friends, and respected and 
 esteemed by the community, he reached the end of his pilgrimage." 
 Not far away from the father sleeps Jennie E., the excellent daughter 
 of Mr. Bayless, and the late wife of J. C. Davis. The strength of 
 the undying attachment of surviving members of this family to 
 those that repose in graves ever freshly decorated with flowers, attests- 
 the worth of the dead, and generous, lasting affection of the living. 
 
 ENOCH AND JAMES BANKS. 
 
 These two brothers came to Memphis more than thirty years ago- 
 from Pennsylvania. A tribute to honest worth is due their stainless 
 fame, and yet we only know that they lived long and useful lives, 
 without fear and above reproach. James Banks was once a member 
 of the Legislature of Tennessee, representing Henderson county. 
 Enoch Banks was born January, 1793, and died aged 59. He was 
 twenty-four years a citizen of Memphis, and mayor in 1836, 1838,. 
 and in 1847. James Banks died December, 1872, aged 76 years. 
 
 COL. S. P. BANKHEAD, 
 
 A son of Gen. Bankhead of the regular army, and nephew of Gen,. 
 Magruder, was born, reared and educated in Virginia. He served as 
 a staff-officer in the Mexican war, and afterwards crossed the plains 
 to California. He came to Memphis about the year 1851 or '52, and 
 in 1853-4 conducted the Whig, a daily newspaper, most skillfully. 
 Having disposed of this property, he became a very successful lawyer, 
 and for several years was city attorney. During his term of office he 
 made an excellent codification of the City Ordinances. He served 
 through the war between the States, always commanding artillery 
 companies, and in this branch of the service won the rank, we believe, 
 of Brigadier-General. He was in many battles, and his conduct 
 was always commended for skill and courage. He returned to Mem- 
 phis in 1865, and two years afterward was brutally assassinated in 
 Memphis at the corner of Washington and Main streets. The identity 
 of the assassin has never been fixed. Gen. Bankhead died March, 
 1867, aged 43 years. 
 
Biographical Sketches. loi 
 
 REV. FRANCIS H. BOWMAN, 
 
 Born ill Charlottesville, Va., in 1833; was the son of Thomas Bow- 
 man, D. D., and nephew of John H. Rice, D. D. The father was 
 pastor of the Presbyterian church at Greensboro, Ga., when the son, 
 in his fourteenth year, became a church member. He was prepared 
 for college by Sam Scudder, known of all educated youths of that 
 -day in Georgia. Young Bowman was graduated by Oglethorpe 
 University, and in his nineteenth year was a school-teacher at Mt. 
 Zion Academy. He then spent two years at the University of Vir- 
 ginia, where he studied ancient literature and languages, and meta" 
 physics. He was graduated by the several schools of the University, 
 and afterward devoted a year to the study of theology at Princeton. 
 He began his brilliant career as a preacher at Midway, Ga., and was 
 soon chosen pastor of the church at Greensboro, Ala. He served this 
 and the church at Augusta, Ga., till 1868, when he came to Memphis 
 where he discharged the duties of a devout, learned, laborious and 
 eloquent pastor till the 6th of October, 1873, when he fell a victim to 
 the terrible plague of that year. He died as he had lived — faithful 
 to man and God ; fearless, unselfish, heroic, self-sacrificing to the end. 
 
 AUGUSTE BERTON, 
 
 Born in 1837, at Niederbrunn, Alsace, France ; emigrated to 
 America, and became a resident of Philadelphia in 1853. Thence he 
 removed to St. Louis, and remaining there a few years, came to 
 Memphis in 1862. One of the most energetic, active, and successful 
 of the foreign-born citizens of Memphis, he was most generous to the 
 poor. Of pleasing address, and tireless industry, he became a most 
 popular tradesman, even as he was highly esteemed in social life. He 
 died of yellow fever in 1873. 
 
 GEN. THOS. H. BRADLEY, 
 
 Born in Williamson County, Tenn., July 25th, 1808; was a leading 
 merchant of Franklin. In 1842 he became a citizen of Crittenden 
 County, Arkansas. He was made a Brigadier General in the Con- 
 federate army, but his age and physical infirmities prevented very 
 ractive participation in campaigns that followed his appointment to 
 •office. He was modest, honest, frank, generous, and had countless 
 friends. He died September, 1864. 
 
I02 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 FRED. BAXTER 
 
 Was born on classic ground. He first saw the light in Quincy, Mass.,- 
 the abiding place of the immortal Adams family. He came to 
 Memphis about thirty years ago, and was for a time a successful- 
 tradesman. Especially was he famous as Chief of Fire Companies, 
 He lived that he might live, and enjoyed keenly the good things of 
 this life. His ruddy face, and merry eyes, and rotund person, were- 
 ever seen where convivial pleasures lent swiftness to flying hours. He 
 was of capital good sense, made excellent dinner-table speeches, and", 
 was eminently popular. He died in 1865, aged forty-four years. 
 
 WALTER BETTIS, 
 
 A grandson of Tilman Bettis, a famous pioneer, and one of the first- 
 white men to fix his home in Shelby county, was for a long period in 
 the clerical service of Elmwood Association. At the time of his- 
 death, though only seventeen years of age, the youth had long illus- 
 trated in his words and conduct the virtues of his fathers. He inher- 
 ited courage, honesty, manly worth and a strong intellect, and was 
 rapidly acquiring knoAvledge of men and books. His industry was 
 tireless and his hourly conduct that of an upright gentleman. His- 
 usefulness was already developed in his devotion to the cause of tem- 
 perance. Of an organization, devoted to the promotion of this virtuejr 
 Mr. Bettis was an active, earnest member. Just prior to his death he 
 had written an address to be delivered before this association. The 
 paper, prepared with care and taste and with unusual ability for one 
 of his years, is now before us. He fell a victim to the plague that 
 desolated Memphis in the fall of 1873, and Avas buried Avith distin- 
 guished honors in October of that year, in Elmwood, by the temper- 
 ance societies of Memphis. 
 
 JOHN H. BOWEN 
 
 Was, we believe, a Tennesseean by birth. He came to Memphis 
 perhaps thirty years ago, and was of the mercantile firm of Bowen <fc 
 Armour. He served the city in after years as a faithful Tax-Collec- 
 tor, and died May, 1872, aged fifty-four years. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 103 
 
 DR. W. C. BRYANT. 
 
 The most skillful dentist of his day in jMeniphis. He was distin- 
 guished for his thorough mastery of his profession, and for his 
 extraordinary genius in mechanical art. Not less remarkable was his 
 gracefulness of action, and of form and features. Twenty years ago 
 Dr. Bryant avus the most tastefully-dressed gentleman on the streets of 
 Memphis, and elegance of apparel became his attractive face and 
 lithe body. His temper was quick, and he was often involved in 
 quarrels. He was generous, impulsive, and fearless — such was he as 
 a soldier. He commanded a light battery during the war, and 
 was often distinguished by personal heroism. He died soon after 
 the cessation of hostilities, and rests in Elmwood. Lincoln county, 
 in this State, was, we believe, his birthplace. He died Angust 
 21st, 1866, aged fifty-one. 
 
 WADE H. BOLTON, 
 
 Of an old North Carolina family, came to this district of Tennessee at 
 an early date after its first settlement by white people. In a feud 
 between two neighboring families, that of Mr. Bolton was almost 
 exterminated, he himself having fallen in a personal renconter. Of 
 this it is needless for us to speak. His death was the more talked 
 about since he bequeathed 610,000 to the widow of Stonewall Jackson. 
 A remarkable monument, under the provisions of his will, was erected 
 over his grave. A photograph of the life-like statue finds a place in 
 this volume. If the name of the family do not survive, the memory 
 of Wade H. Bolton will not perish till Parian stone dissolves. 
 
 WM. A. BLYTHE, 
 
 Was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, about the year 1823. He 
 came to Memphis in 1840, and was a partner through a long series of 
 years of the famous E. M. Yerger. He was Yerger's counterpart — 
 like him in nothing save that he was an honest, generous gentleman. 
 He rarely entered the court-room, but did everything else needful to 
 make his partner successful. He gathered the law and the facts, and 
 managed the finances of the prosperous firm. Mr. Blythe was uni- 
 versally beloved. He Avas modest, amiable, full of good humor, and 
 never spoke unkindly of people. He died hdlo Jiagrante, January 
 24th, 1864. 
 
I04 Ebnwood Cemetery. 
 
 ED. A. BEECHER 
 
 Was born, we believe, in Western New York ; a nephew of the won- 
 derful preacher of Brooklyn. He shared the intellectual strength of 
 the family of which he was a member, and even in early youth 
 was distinguished for his skill as a debater and for extraordinary logi- 
 cal acumen. He read law in this city with Hon. Henry G. Smith 
 and James Wickersham, and immediately after his accession to the 
 bar assumed a position among the foremost of his professional asso- 
 ciates. He entered the service of the Confederate States in 1861, and 
 was the most famous and skillful of Quartermasters. At the close of 
 the war he resumed in Memphis the practice of his profession ; but 
 death came, and the brilliant lawyer, boon companion, and acute, 
 adroit logician, died in January, 1873, in the 39th year of his age. 
 
 GERALDUS BUNTYN 
 
 AVas wont to exhibit to his friends a warrant for 160 acres of public 
 laud issued to him by the Federal Government for his services as a 
 soldier in the war of 1812-15. He was one of the founders of the 
 First Baptist Church of this city, a model farmer and most successful 
 in money-making, having left a large estate to his children. He was 
 born with the century, in North Carolina, and died July, 1865, of 
 anxieties, like countless old men of the South, begotten by the war 
 between the States. He was sixty-five years of age at the time of 
 his death. 
 
 R. B. BERRY. 
 
 This excellent gentleman and skillful physician came to Memphis in 
 1850 from Kentucky. He soon won a profitable practice, and was 
 rapidly gaining popular favor when he fell a victim of yellow fever in 
 1855. His son, during the same summer, while serving, as a volun- 
 teer nurse, the sick and dying at Norfolk, Va., where yellow fever 
 raged, also became its victim. Dr. Berry's wife was the first person 
 interred in Elmwood, July 15, 1853. For this reason the original 
 proprietors of the Cemetery caused an inscription on marble to recite 
 the fact, and the story is told above her last resting-place. 
 
Biographical SketcJies. 105 
 
 REV. D. E. BURNS 
 
 Was born in Kentucky in 1823, but spent the earlier years of his life 
 near Evansville, Indiana. An orphan, and without property, he was 
 self-educated, and when sixteen years of age devoted himself to the 
 service of his Divine Master. When only nineteen years of age, he 
 was pastor of the Baptist Church, at Hardinsburg, Ky. He served 
 the churches at Russelville and at Paducah most successfully. In 
 1850 he succeeded Rev. Dr. Gale as pastor of the Beal street Baptist 
 Church, in Memphis. His fine declamation, and ornate, tasteful 
 sermons, full of passion and poetry, drew delighted audiences. He 
 was then a very boy in appearance, and never was there such a 
 contrast presented by two men filling, each, a pulpit in a Baptist 
 Church at the same time, in the same city, as that discovered in Dr. 
 Finley of the First, and Burns of the Second Baptist Church. Finley 
 was very old ; not less than three-quarters of a century had taught him 
 lessons of profoundest philosophy. He was a natural logician. His 
 sentences were short, crisp, compact, full of significance, and such Avas 
 their sententious force, and fullness of wisdom, that his most solemn 
 discourses were studded with the sharpest witticisms. There were 
 never two servants of God more unlike in modes of thinking or 
 expression than Dr. Finley and Mr. Burns. To hear and see the one 
 made the peculiarities and mannerism of the other especially delight- 
 ful ; and if Dr. Burns had no superior as a declaimer. Dr. Finley 
 never had an equal as an original thinker and acute logician in any 
 pulpit in these States. Dr. Burns remained two years in Memphis 
 and went to Jackson, jMiss., where he won even greater reputation as 
 an orator than he had achieved in Memphis. When the war closed 
 he was called to the charge of the Colliseum Baptist Church, New 
 Orleans, where he labored very successfully for over two years, and 
 about the month of June, 1867, he received and accepted a call to the 
 pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Memphis. During his 
 pastorate he greatly endeared himself to his congregation, and was 
 much beloved by the great body of the j^eople. It is stated that when 
 dying, November 22d, 1870, Dr. Burns grasped the hand of his 
 friend and co-laborer in the church, Dr. Ford, and said, " I have 
 trusted in Christ for thirty years, and my faith is now unshaken.' 
 His spirit gently passed away to the (Jod who gave it, amid the 
 prayers and tears of friends and relatives who were gathered about his 
 bedside. 
 
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 ZEBULON PIKE BOWLES, 
 
 Through a long series of years a successful cotton broker, in Mem- 
 phis, rests beneath a beautiful monument in Elmwood, of which a 
 perfect representation adorns a page in this volume. Mr. Bowles died 
 in August, 1870, in the fiftieth year of his age. 
 
 GEN. JAMES A. CARNES 
 
 Was one of the most enterprising, energetic gentlemen that ever pro- 
 moted the fortunes of JNIemphis. In this he was quite the equal of 
 his brother-in-law, Sam Tate. He was made Major General of the 
 State militia in the first year of the late war, and was eminently use- 
 ful in evoking the whole military stieugth of the country. He died 
 during the war in Georgia, about fifty years of age. His remains 
 were transferred to Elmwood. 
 
 T. CHAMBLISS, 
 
 A Virginian, came to this city many years ago. He was an original 
 stockholder in Elmwood, and an intelligent, public-spirited citizen. 
 He died in October, 1854, in the forty-fourth year of his age. 
 
 ELIJAH CHEEK, 
 
 A Virginian, born iu 1798, came to Memphis in 1848. He was dis- 
 tinguislied for his extraordinary energy, shrewdness and boldness in 
 his bu-iiness transactions. One of the most enterprising citizens of 
 Memphis, he invested liberally in every work designed to promote the 
 public good, never failing to give most generously to the Church. He 
 established in 1851-2 a ferry from Memphis to Mound City, five miles 
 above Memphis, in Arkansas, and was involved in interminable litiga 
 tion with the original riparian proprietors. He built a plank road from 
 Mound City to Marion, Arkansas, and at the same time was most 
 zealous and successful in establishing a cotton mill (afterward de- 
 stroyed by fire,) of 6,000 spindles in Memphis. He built and owned 
 the old grist mills on Poplar street, and led a life of tireless activity. 
 During the war he was strongly commended to President Lincoln as a 
 proper person to serve as provisional Governor of Arkansas. He died 
 in 1863, in the 65th year of his age. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 107 
 
 GEN. WM. H. CARROLL, 
 
 The son of Governor Carroll, of this State — in whose behalf the 
 Constitution of Tennessee was changed that he might not be re-elected 
 forever — came to Memphis about the year 1848. He was a banker 
 and broker in 1849, and for some years thereafter. He was for a long 
 time Postmaster at Memphis, and was, we believe, a member of the' 
 State Convention of Tennessee in 1861, and though an ardent 
 adherent of Stephen A. Douglas, was made a Brigadier General in th& 
 Confederate army. He served for a time in East Tennessee, and 
 incurred, as was supposed, the special condemnation of Union men of 
 that district. He therefore remained in Canada after the cessation of 
 
 hostilities, and died there in the year . His remains were 
 
 brought to Memphis, and followed to Elmwood by a great concourse 
 of our citizens. He commanded a brigade, and was distinguished for 
 his coolness and courage in the battle of Fishing Creek. 
 
 Thomas B., a brother of Gen. Wm. H. Carroll, was a most popular 
 Mayor of Memphis. He died in the meridian of his strength, useful- 
 ness, and popularity, in April, 1857. 
 
 JOHN S. CLAYTON, 
 
 Of the famous family from Delaware, was born, we believe, in Vir- 
 ginia. He bought the Garrett estate, formerly owned by Mr. 
 Rodgers, and at an earlier period by Mayor Hickman, four miles east 
 from Memphis, on the Germantown road. Mr. Clayton was a cotton 
 planter in the lowlands, and prior to the war between the States 
 accumulated wealth very rapidly. He was an honest, upright citizen, 
 famed for his generous hospitality, and the attractiveness of his home. 
 He died in February, 1872, aged fifty-nine. 
 
 CALVIN W. CHERRY 
 
 "Was first a merchant in Cherryville, Tenn., and afterwards in New 
 Orleans, having a branch house in Memphis. In 1853 he became a 
 banker in the latter city, and, as in mercantile avocations, was emi- 
 nently fortunate. Mr. Cherry had a massive head, a clear, strong 
 intellect, and was probably the most successful business man of his- 
 time in Memphis. His personal fame was as unsullied as his success 
 in life was brilliant. He was born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1821^ 
 and died here in 1861. 
 
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 DAVID M. CURRIN, 
 
 Born in Murfreesboro in 1819, was graduated by the Nashville 
 University at the age of seventeen. He read law in Return J. Meigs' 
 office, and was at twenty-one a Democratic candidate for the Legisla- 
 ture. Defeated, he still won much distinction as a popular speaker, 
 and was made district elector on Mr. Polk's ticket in 1843-4, and five 
 years afterward came to Memphis. Here his career was eminently 
 distinguished. He was, however, too much a politician to be first as a 
 lawyer. He served several terms in the State Legislature, and was 
 once or twice a candidate for the Federal Congress. He was twice a 
 member of the Confederate Congress, and died near Richmond, Va., 
 whither he had gone to serve the Memphis district, March 25th, 
 1864. Mr. Currin was distinguished for quickness and acuteness of 
 perception, for his ready wit, and as a successful satirist. He was 
 devoted to books, and often spoke with a degree of perfect tasteful- 
 ness and simple elegance that was absolutely charming. He pro- 
 nounced in Richmond a funereal eulogium upon a member of the Con- 
 federate Congress from Missouri, which was conceded to have been 
 the most admirable speech, as a mere question of literary taste, deliv- 
 ered during the session. If Democracy survive, it should build a 
 mausoleum where David M. Currin reposes. He devoted genius, toil, 
 and the best years of his life to the service of this party. He Avas 
 fearless, truthful, earnest and indefatigable ; a cogent reasoner, and 
 one of the best stump speakers of his time. 
 
 FRANCIS T. COCHRAN. 
 
 Born in Abingdon, Va. ; came to Memphis more than twenty years 
 ago. With his brother, M. E. Cochran, he was a lumber merchant 
 and most successfully engaged in this pursuit till the North and South 
 parted. He enlisted, and served bravely and well as a soldier under 
 Gen. Forrest; and in camp, on the march, or battlefield, always 
 discharged his duty faithfully and heroically. He became a farmer 
 after the cessation of hostilities, and in this avocation was as persist- 
 ently'' industrious as when a lumber dealer. His farm was the best 
 tilled in the country, and his crops most abundant. The sod of 
 Elmwood never hid ft-om mortal eyes a truer, braver, nobler gentle- 
 man than F. T. Cochran. He may well rest sweetly after life's fitful 
 fever. He died on his farm in Crittenden county. Ark., in 1872, 
 forty-five years of age. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 109 
 
 M. E. COCHRAN. 
 
 A native of Virginia ; born and reared near Abingdon. He came 
 to Tennessee about tbirty years ago, first having his home near Ger- 
 mantown, in Shelby county. He soon afterwards became a resident 
 of Memphis, and was one of the most successful business men, and 
 most highly-esteemed citizens of the place. He was a lumber dealer 
 and manufacturer, and at the close of his life, in May of 1873, 
 conducted a most extensive and profitable business. He was a 
 director in banks and insurance comj^anies, a devout Methodist, and 
 as thoroughly-beloved by those who knew him well as he was esteemed 
 by the whole population of the city. No more honest, truthful, 
 generous gentleman rests in Elmwood than M. E. Cochran. He was 
 fifty-two years old. 
 
 DAVIS COCKRELL. 
 
 A South Carolinian by birth, was, for many years, a citizen of 
 Columbus, Miss. He came to Memphis about thirty years ago, and 
 managed most skillfully and owned the costliest livery stables. In 
 1851 or 1852 he became proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, and 
 made money rapidly. He leased the Gayoso House, and furnished it 
 in splendor. When his term expired, he caused to be constructed, 
 and took charge of, the Peabody Hotel. He managed this famous 
 institution, giving it great popularity, until his health failed, and 
 death Avas at hand. He then went to his home in the suburbs, where 
 he died in February, 1872, in the sixty-second year of his age. He 
 was fearless and generous, and devoted to his friends. 
 
 JAMES T. CRAWFORD. 
 
 Born in 1796, in South Carolina; became in early life a citizen of 
 Middle Tennessee. He entered military service in his early youth, 
 accompanied Gen. Jackson in his campaigns against the Indians, and 
 was a participant in the battle of New Orleans. It is said, in com- 
 mendation of his unsullied character, that he never held a public 
 office, and never betrayed a private trust. He became a citizen of 
 Memphis in 1849, and died here in February, 1863, honored for his 
 personal virtues and venerated for his age. 
 
I lo Elmivood Cemetery. 
 
 JOSEPH COOPER 
 
 Was a curious character, and the most remarkable business man of 
 iis day in IMeniphis. He was born in the last years of the last cen. 
 tury, in Petersburg, Va. We have heard of him that he was originally 
 •a bar-tender, and that, having drawn .$20,000 in a lottery, he imme- 
 diately abandoned Petersburg, came to Memphis, and nevermore 
 would he invest in lotteries. He bought cotton at about four cents on 
 one occasion, and sold at ten and twelve cents, and never again would 
 speculate in this commodity. He said that its value was too uncertain, 
 and affected by too many causes, which no one could number or an- 
 ticipate. He was a money-lender, and succeeded in accumulating 
 great wealth. He was never married, and his j^ersonal idiosyncrasies 
 were as numerous as his fortunes were wonderful. He died in March, 
 1852, aged fifty -eight, having been blind many years. His brother, 
 George P. Cooper, inherited the estate, which he constantly augmented 
 by shrewdness, economy and capital good sense. He died March, 
 1858, aged sixtv-four. 
 
 MAJOR A. J. DONELSON. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to devote a few paragraphs to the delineation 
 ■of the character, or recital of incidents in the history of a man who, 
 for thirty years or longer, occupied so prominent a position in the eyes 
 of his countrymen. His lifelong intimate relations with President 
 Jackson, his distinguished editorial career in Washington, his tenure 
 of the office of Minister at St. Petersburg, and candidature for the 
 Vice-Presidency on the Fillmore ticket, beaten by Buchanan and 
 Breckenridge, are facts that will hardly be forgotten. Major Donel- 
 son spent ^much time on his plantation below this city, and made 
 Memphis his home. Personally and socially, there was never a gentle- 
 man more universally esteemed and beloved. He was especially de- 
 lightful in his intercourse with young men. He recited anecdotes and 
 incidents in the lives of distinguished persons, with whom he was long 
 and intimately associated, with infinite zest, and discussed the political 
 issues of his time with rare volubility and good humor. His son John 
 fell on the field of Chickamauga. The father never recovered from the 
 terrible shock. There was not a truer, nobler youth, or one of rarer 
 virtues and intelligence, in Confederate armies. Major Donelson 
 ■died at the Peabody Hotel, in Memphis, in 1871, aged seventy-two 
 years. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 1 1 1 
 
 C. A. DAVIS, D. U., 
 
 Was born in Hardin county, Tenn., March 8th, 1825. His family, 
 when he was very young, resided for a time in St. Louis, and after- 
 wards in Phitte county, Missouri, where, in 1847, he was ordained a 
 Cumberland Presbyterian minister. He was pastor of the church at 
 Lexington, Missouri, for some years. Thence he came to Memphis in 
 1859, and took charge of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
 of this city. He died in this service of yellow fever, October, 1867, 
 in the forty-second year of his age. Through his exertions and 
 influence, the excellent edifice, dedicated to the Most High, was 
 erected by the Cumberland Presbyterians on Court, between Second 
 and Third streets. He was an original thinker, of indomitable, 
 tireless energy, a laborious, faithful pastor, beloved and admired by 
 his Church and the people. 
 
 MAJOR WM. T. DRIVER AND 
 COL. WM. R. HUNT. 
 
 Major Wm. T. Diiver, born in Pontotoc county. Miss., June loth, 
 1840, was killed on the battlefield at Jonesboro, Georgia, August 31, 
 1864, at the very instant, and perhaps by the same missile by which 
 Gen. AV. B. Bate was dangerously Avounded. Major Driver was of 
 the first soldiers that left Memphis for the scene of war in Virginia in 
 1861. He participated in perhaps as many battles as any Southern 
 soldier, and one more fearless never braved and defied danger. He 
 was the only son of the late Eli M. Driver, and brother-in-law of Col. 
 Wm. R. Hunt, known throughout the Gulf States in 1863-4 as the 
 skillful and energetic Confederate Chief of the Ordnance and Niter 
 and Mining Bureau in Alabama. Col. Hunt died in Memphis in 
 1873, about fifty years of age. 
 
 B. F. DILL 
 
 Was born and reared, we believe, at Augusta, Georgia. For some 
 years he was a citizen of Oxford, Miss. About 1855 he bought a 
 share of the Ajrpeal, conducted and owned from that time till the 
 close of the war by J. R. McClanahan and himself. He revived the 
 paper in Memphis, after the cessation of hostilities, but did not long 
 survive his partner, McClanahan, both dying soon after their return 
 to this city, Mr. Dill's deatli occurring in January, 1866. 
 
1 1 2 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 ■ FRANK DOMINICO 
 
 Was born in Saxony, Altenburg, in 1827, and educated mainly at Wei- 
 mar, but spent some time at the University of Jena. His innate 
 skepticism defeated his parents' purposes, and he never Ijecame a 
 churchman. The students of his literary society ^vere prime movers 
 in the revolution of 1848. Dominico was denounced as a leader, and 
 a price set upon his head. He escaped to Switzerland, and thence to 
 America. Near Philadelphia he toiled as farmer's " help," that he 
 might master the language of the country. Meanwhile the Smith- 
 sonian Institute, made cognizant of his virtues and attainments, em- 
 ployed him to sketch the flora of Mexico. He discharged the task 
 most successfully, was robbed on his way home, and became a penni- 
 less pedagogue in Louisiana. Acquiring a share of wealth, he pur- 
 chased a farm near Lexington, Mo., and was discovered there by the 
 " rebellion," a revolutionist in all his instincts. He became a Confed- 
 erate soldier, winning the unlimited confidence of Gen. Price, and in 
 his secret service was arrested within the Federal lines, and condemned 
 to death as a spy. His execution was to occur the morning after his 
 condemnation. At night he asked for materials that he might write a 
 letter. A Federal surgeon gave what he sought, and, scanning his 
 features closely, inquired: "Are you Frank Dominico?" "Yes," 
 answered Frank, and, looking up, recognized a classmate and member 
 
 of the German Revolutionary Club of 1848. The Doctor R r at 
 
 once effected Dominico's escape. He went to Pittsburg, taught music, 
 drawing and the German, and came to Memphis, where the accom- 
 plished gentleman resorted to the same avocations. His courageous 
 spirit failed him, and disappointment and toil paralyzed his energies. 
 He died August 19th, 1870, in the forty-third year of his age. 
 
 DR. DUDLEY DUNN, 
 
 Who was born in Oglethorpe county, Georgia, came to Memjohis more 
 than forty years ago. He acquired wealth, and at the time of his 
 death, January 14th, 1848, owned a most valuable estate in the 
 suburbs of Memphis. He was deemed an excellent citizen, even as he 
 was a thorough master of his profession. At the time of his death he 
 was sixty -seven years of age. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 1 1 3 
 
 HON. WM. C. DUNLAP 
 
 Was one of many cliildren whose parents were citizens of Eastern 
 Tennessee long before a State government was organized. He was 
 born at Knoxville, February 25, 1798, and was a twin-brother of the 
 late Gen. Hugh W. Dunlap, of New Orleans. The brothers were 
 educated at Marysville, a seat of learning made famous by the skill, 
 as an instructor, of Rev. Dr. Anderson. Judge Dunlap began to 
 practice law in Eastern Tennessee, but in 1828 became a partner, at 
 Bolivar, in this State, of the late Hon. Roger Barton. He served 
 often in both branches of the State Legislature, and two terms in the 
 Federal Congress. For a series of years he was Circuit Judge of this 
 district, as then constituted. He was never married, but for all that 
 there was never a gentleman of kindlier impulses, of warmer, stronger 
 affections, of sensibilities more tender, or of a nature more generous. 
 Every moral quality calculated to send his name most loudly down 
 the stream of the world's babbling voices, adorned his character. 
 In habits of dress and of thinking, essentially a man of the people, 
 his personal popularity was boundless, even as his personal fame was 
 stainless. He was not an orator, but never spoke unwisely, and his 
 instincts were infallible, never failing to discover or anticipate the 
 course of public prejudices and opinions. His speeches were emi- 
 nently practical, and ever delighted the multitude. He died a devout 
 Methodist, Nov. 16, 1872, and if a useful and honorable private life 
 give brightness to the life to come, none need have wept when Judge 
 Dunlap was no more. 
 
 DECATUR J. DOYLE 
 
 "Was the son of a distinguished surgeon, the family physician of 
 Andrew Jackson thi'ough a series of years when a citizen of Nashville. 
 The son, of whom we speak, was born in Memphis, and when too 
 young to become a soldier was a volunteer with Gen. Forrest through 
 the three last years of the war between the States. While in this 
 service he was severely wounded in the body, and, never recovering 
 from the effects of the injury, died in Memphis January 31st, 1874, 
 about twenty-eight years of age. He was greatly beloved by his 
 comrades in arms, and no young gentleman has died in Memphis 
 whose untimely fate was more deeply deplored. 
 
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 CAPT. ANDREW J. EDMONDSON, 
 
 Born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in 1793, was the first child in- 
 Middle Tennessee, or elsewhere, perhaps, named in honor of Andrew 
 Jackson, then a Circuit Judge, He followed the future President in 
 all his campaigns against Indians and British, and was in nearly every 
 battle in which Gen. Jackson led American troops. His father was 
 one of the heroes of King's Mountain. In ] 820 he became a citizett 
 of Limestone county, Alabama, where he was often made sheriflT. Itt 
 1834 he removed to Pontotoc, Mississippi, and Avas Register and 
 Receiver of Public Monies for the United States. He was afterward 
 Clerk in Chancery at Holly Springs. He removed to Shelby county^ 
 Tennessee, in 1860, and died here April 30th, 1872. He was fearless,, 
 modest, of unimpeachable integrity, with an intellect strong and 
 active. He was generous to a fault, and ever distinguished by the 
 graces that adorn the conduct and character of a true Mason and 
 devout Christian. 
 
 LEONIDAS HOOPER ELLIOTT, 
 
 In May, 1861, enlisted in the Senior Company E, One Hundred and' 
 Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment, and was in all the great battles- 
 fought by the Army of Tennessee. He was wounded six times, and 
 twice on the 30th of November, 1864, on the bloody field of Franklin^ 
 Tenn. He died of these wounds at Columbus, Miss., February 12th, 
 1865, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, and his remains were 
 brought to Elmwood. He was a grandson of the venerable school- 
 teacher, Mrs. K. Hays, still living in the suburbs of Memphis. 
 
 CEYLON B. FRAZER 
 
 Was for many years a prominent member of the jNIemphis bar. He- 
 Avas distinguished for his imperturbable good humor and personal 
 popularity, facts which gave him great influence with the multitude^ 
 He was a vehement speaker, and rather a successful declaimer than a 
 logician. He died, universally regretted, in the vigor of his manhood,, 
 in March, 1858, about forty years of age. 
 
Biographical SIcetches. 1 1 5 
 
 DR. ROBERT J. FREEMAN, 
 
 Born in Xorfolk, Va., 1837, fell a victim of tlie terrible plague, Oct. 
 22d, 1873, that desolated Memphis. Of a populaticm not exceeding 
 thirty thouH^and, left by all-pervading terror in the city, nearly two 
 thousand were swept away. Dr. Freeman, during the prevalence of 
 this frightful epidemic, was Secretary of the Board of Health, and 
 filled with distinguished honor this most responsible position, and with 
 tireless assiduity discharged every task assigned him. He spared 
 neither strength, nor toil, nor money to alleviate the sufferings of the 
 plague-stricken and unfortunate. By his promptness, skill and attain- 
 ments he rapidly won popular confidence. As a young surgeon he had 
 entered the army of the United States in July, 1859, abandoning the 
 position to occupy it in the Confederate navy in 1861. He served in 
 this capacity through the war. His body rests in Elmwood, lot No. 8, 
 South Grove Section, and a tasteful monument, I'eared by his mother, 
 who came from Baltimore to tender this tribute of affection to her 
 honored son, distinguishes his grave. 
 
 FOWLKES. 
 
 Four gentlemen by this name filled, at one time, prominent places 
 in the eyes of Memphis. Perhaps the most remarkable of these was 
 Dr. Jeptha Fowlkes, who came to Memphis nearly forty years 
 ago. He was a regularly-educated physician, but did not, we 
 believe, practice his profession in this city. In 1849-50 he edited 
 a vigorous newspaper known as Foxvlkes^ Herald, and in 1861-2-3 
 conducted the Avalanche) at one time, we believe associated with 
 Dr. Sam Bard. He was of those who gave origin to the Southern 
 Pacific Koad, locating it. in 1858, on the line of the thirty-fifth 
 parallel of latitude. He had boundless faith in the coming 
 greatness and wealth of Ai-kansas, and invested there much of 
 his Avealth. He died in January, 1864. He was fearless, impulsive, 
 devoted to his friends, and violent in assaults upon his enemies, 
 and therefore the popularity of his newspapers. Pat. H. Fowlkes 
 was a kinsman of the Doctor, and deemed the ripest scholar of 
 his age in Memphis. He was, too, an excellent lawyer. He edited 
 the Appeal at different times when Van Pelt & McClanahan were 
 its conductors, and was still a very young man at the time of his 
 death, about 1856, Austin Fowlkes was a quiet, laborious, honest 
 
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 merchant, as was Sterling ; of these two, Austin was the brother and 
 Sterling the cousin of. Dr. Jeptha Fowlkes. Sterling and Austin 
 were alike distinguished for probity and sterling integrity. They 
 bent neither in the presence of adversity nor of prosperity, and were 
 ever the same honest, truthful, industrious merchants. Austin died 
 April, 1859, and Sterling in November, 1872, aged sixty-nine. The 
 family were Virginians. 
 
 Capt. Sterling Fowlkes, the son of the gentleman of the same 
 name, of whom Ave tell above, was born in Memphis, educated in 
 Virginia, but trained as a merchant from his early youth. Though 
 very young when war came, he was already the head of a successful 
 firm of cotton brokers. He sex-ved in the Confederate army with 
 distinction, and was promoted from the ranks to a captaincy, to fall in 
 the forefront of battle at Perryville. He was not more than twenty- 
 five years of age at the date of his death. 
 
 JAMES B. FERGUSON, 
 
 A famous maitre d'hotel of his time, born in Belfast, Ireland, was first 
 ^' mine host" at Brownsville, and afterwards leigned in the old Nash- 
 "ville Inn for thirty years, where Benton and Andrew Jackson had an 
 almost deadly encounter, leaving a bullet in the ceiling to attest their 
 fury. Mr. Ferguson came to Memphis in 1849, and for two years was 
 the lessee of the Gayoso House. He was eminently popular, most 
 pleasing in address, and entertaining in conversation. Moreover, 
 lie was ever deemed an honest, upright gentleman. He died in 1851, 
 in the sixty-second year of his age. 
 
 JOHN FRICK, 
 
 Born in 1821 at Wurtemberg, Germany, came to Memphis in 1850. 
 He was a skillful carpenter, and highly esteemed, not only for his 
 perfect mastery of his vocation, but for his trustworthiness and 
 fidelity to tasks assumed. Of recent years he was an Insurance 
 Agent, and especially skilled in adjusting fire losses. He died of the 
 plague, October 13th, 1873. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 1 1 
 
 NEWTON FORD, 
 
 Born in Cumberland county, Va., in 1811, was of a family of faultless 
 fame in the Old Dominion. In early manhood he was a merchant at 
 Huntsville, Ala., but, removing to Shelby county, Tennessee, in 1842, 
 was here devoted to agricultural pursuits. He became a merchant in 
 Memphis in 1849, and for twenty-four years was identified Avith each 
 great work of public or private beneficence which has blest the city. 
 His purity of character was never impeached, and his perfect integ- 
 rity never questioned. He was modest in demeanor, plain in apparel, 
 always vivacious, kindly and generous. He was content to lead the 
 quiet life of a toiling, successful merchant, and spend his leisure hours 
 as a huntsman in the wilds of Arkansas or lowlands of the Tennessee. 
 He was never a candidate for place, or an office-holder, and died, hon- 
 ored of all men, November 2d, 1873. 
 
 GEORGE W. FISHER. 
 
 The sharp, aquiline features of George W. Fisher, as he went 
 industriously about the streets discharging a sheriff's functions 
 through a series of years in Memphis, will long be remembered. He 
 was an honest, and just, and generous old gentleman, as universally 
 esteemed as he was widely known. He was born in Lancaster county, 
 Pennsylvania, March 21st, ISOl, became a citizen of North Carolina 
 in 1814, was married in 1823, removed to Cottonport, on the Ten- 
 nessee river, and in 1834 became a citizen of Fayette county, which 
 he twice represented in the Legislature. He became a citizen of 
 Shelby county in 1848, and represented this and Fayette county in the 
 State Senate. He was City Recorder, and for seven years a Deputy 
 Sherifl\, a position he filled till his death, November 20th, 1866. 
 
 COL. JOHN W. FOWLER, 
 
 One of the original founders and projectors of Elmwood Cemetery, 
 was born in Wake county, North Carolina, in 1805. He came to 
 Memphis in 1830, and through forty years was an honored and most 
 useful citizen. For a period of eight years he was Sheriff' of Shelby 
 county, and ever deemed a model public officer. He was distinguished 
 for his probity, energy and excellent good sense. He died January 
 12th, 1870, and sleeps in a Section of Elmwood named in his honor. 
 A picture of his granite monument finds a place in this volume. 
 
1 1 8 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 W. D. FERGUSON, 
 
 Boru in Giles county, Tennessee, about the year 1785, came first to 
 Memphis in 1813. He was then employed as Surveyor. A few 
 Indian huts at that time marked the spot where Memphis stands. At 
 a later period Mr. Ferguson, through many years, was a citizen of 
 Arkansas. He was not only a farmer, but an Indian fighter, and 
 owned a woodyard on the Mississippi, known as Greenock, about four- 
 teen miles above Mem})his. He was of wonderful physical strength 
 and activity. There was not a warrior of the Chickasaws or Quapaws 
 of greater strength or fleetness than Mr. Ferguson, commonly known 
 among the red men as AVappanockee, an appellation having reference, 
 it is said, to the extraordinary length of ]Mr. Ferguson's tracks. 
 While owner of the Arkansas woodyard, in the early years of the 
 current century, one Abx-aham Lincoln, who had drifted down to New 
 Orleans on a flatlioat, sojourned for some time, on his way home, with 
 Mr. Ferguson. Lincoln, a skillful axman, cut cordwood for Ferguson, 
 till he secured money enough to reach his home on the Ohio. While 
 the Avar raged between the States, Wappanockee, then grown old and 
 gray, but still active and erect, visited Washington. The old Indian 
 fighter, unheralded and unannounced, entered the White House, and 
 was recognized on the instant and welcomed cordially by the wood- 
 chopper of forty years before. Ever afterward Mr. Ferguson was 
 wont to recount, with exquisite satisfaction, incidents of this interview 
 with the President of the United States. It was this memory of this 
 intercourse in his early years with Mr. Lincoln, for whom Mr. Fergu- 
 son entertained feelings of great respect, that influenced very strongly 
 the political and partisan conduct of Mr. Ferguson in 1860-61. He 
 was President and an active member of the Cob Pipe (union) Associa- 
 tion of that day. He served as a soldier under General Jackson at the 
 battle of New Orleans, where he was employed, as in General Jack- 
 son's preceding campaigns, as a sharp-shooter. Mr. Ferguson died in 
 Memphis, where he had lived about t\venty years, in January, 1867. 
 
 DR. GEORGE R. GRANT, 
 
 A native of Charleston, S. C, removed, when young, to Jackson 
 county, Georgia. He was educated in the best American schools of 
 medicine, and came to Memphis more than thirty years ago. He was 
 universally respected for his professional attainments, even as he was be- 
 loved by those he served professionally. He was generous, amiable, 
 and kindly in words and deeds. He died in April, 1870, aged sixty-six. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 119 
 
 DR. SAMUEL G. GILBERT. 
 
 "The most successful in money-making of all Memphis physiciuns, was 
 born in AVestmoreland county, Virginia, in 1802, and died here in 
 1869. He met death calmly — contemplating its approach for six 
 ■months — and as heroically as any that rest in Elmwood. He was 
 poor in early life, and apprenticed to a tailor. He suffered many 
 years from a running sore in his side which the healing art, as 
 practiced by learned physicians, failed to cure. He undertook the 
 task for himself, and was successful. He sought information every- 
 where, and reading constantly, and having a vigorous intellect, 
 became most skillful in treating ulcers, and it was often asserted that 
 he cured incurable cancers. His fame extended over the whole 
 country, and he was more successful in New Orleans and New York 
 than here at his own home. He established a hospital in Memphis, 
 through a series of years, filled with patients from all directions and 
 States. He was a devout Spiritualist, and separated himself from an 
 •orthodox church to die in this faith. He acquired great wealth, was 
 kind and generous, and certainly a man of rare natural intellectual 
 energies and endowments. 
 
 J. O. GREENLAW 
 
 Was, we believe, a Virginian by birth. He came to Shelby county 
 in his early youth, and lived near Raleigh. His early education was 
 neglected, but he bore a vigorous head on a vigorous body, and, 
 making Memphis his home, soon won wealth. He and his brother, 
 William Borden, were partners in all l)usiness transactions, and owned 
 everything in common, and Memphis never boasted of two more 
 useful and enterprising citizens. Of J. O. Greenlaw it has been 
 stated that he was the bravest of the brave. He went on board a 
 steamer on fire, freighted, as he knew, with many tons of gunpowder, 
 and extinguished the flames. The Confederate forces, under Gen. 
 Polk, had just landed at New Madrid, and many vessels were lying at 
 the wharf. All who saw the flames fled save Greenlaw and Gen. 
 Cheatham. Such is the story told of his daring conduct, by which 
 many lives, and much valuable property, and many steamers 'svere 
 saved. Mr. Greenlaw died in Memphis February, 1864, aged fifty-two 
 years. He was distinguished alike for frankness, honesty, and truth- 
 fulness, as for energy and courage, and Memphis has hardly lost a 
 more useful citizen. 
 
1 20 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 JAMES GREER 
 
 AVas born September 21st, 1774, nearly one hundred years ago, in 
 Bedford county, Virginia. He migrated in 1790 to Greene county,. 
 Georgia, and thence to Sumner county, Tenn. In 1822 he became a 
 citizen of Henry county, Tennessee, and was the first imjDorter of dry 
 goods into Obion county. Population rapidly became dense, and the 
 country therefore objectionable to a frontiersman, and Mr, Greer 
 removed to Holly Springs, Miss., and in 1836, at the sale of town lots, 
 bought a home in that most attractive place. In 1851, though time' 
 had written legibly upon his brow, and his form was bent by the 
 lapse of years, his indomitable restive spirit, still untamed, impelled 
 him to seek a home in Arkansas. He bought the section of land on 
 which the town known as DeVal's Bluff now stands, and was there 
 the mercantile partner of his son-in-law, J. J. Worsham. Mr. Greer 
 died in 1851, soon after he went to DeVal's Bluff". His remains were 
 interred in Elmwood. 
 
 BARNETT GRAHAM. 
 
 Barnett Graham, for many years a most prosperous merchant of 
 Memphis, was born June 22d, 1812, in Rockingham county, North 
 Carolina. In the twenty-first year of his age, when this city was a 
 little village, he became a citizen of Memphis. When a boy, he had 
 been a mail carrier, and gathered a little money by the practice of 
 habits of economy, of which he never divested himself. He was clerk 
 and salesman ; for a time employed by the late Joseph Coojier. He 
 gathered wealth slowly but surely, and was distinguished for his 
 truthfulness, promptness and inflexible integrity. He died at the St. 
 Nicholas Hotel, in the city of New York, August 27th, 1866. His 
 excellent wife was the daughter of Col. Nat. Anderson, and sister of 
 Governor Robert Anderson, of California. 
 
 JASPER C. GRIPPING, 
 
 Through twenty-two years a cotton broker in Memphis, of whom no- 
 unkind word was ever spoken, was born October, 1816, in Jessamine 
 county, Kentucky. At different periods he was associated in business 
 with men of the highest character and of consummate skill. He was 
 eminently just and charitable, and distinguished for his tireless 
 assiduity in devotion to the active duties of business life. He died 
 in Memphis in 1868. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 1 2 e 
 
 KENNETH GARRETT, 
 
 A North Caroliuian, became a citizen of Madison county, Tennessee.. 
 About twenty-five years ago he purchased the magnificent Rogers. 
 estate of, perhaps, two thousand acres, four miles east of Memphis.^ 
 Mr. Garrett Avas distinguished for his shrewdness, tact, forethought 
 and sleepless activity. He once, within a few hours, bought all the 
 whisky in Memphis. The river was closed by ice and uunavigable \ 
 there were no railways, and Mr. Garrett sold out at his own price. He 
 was never married, was eminently successful in money-making, and at 
 his death enriched many of his kindred. He was truthful, prompt 
 and in everything trustworthy. He died November lOth, 1853, aged- 
 fifty-three. 
 
 WARDLOW HOWARD, 
 
 A Virginian by birth, came to Memphis about thirty years ago. The 
 place was hardly more than a village then (in 1843), and Howard, 
 through a series of years, was the most daring cotton speculator, and 
 one of the most successful commission merchants. He was accus- 
 tomed to buy from wagons. There were no railways in West 
 Tennessee in those days, and a thousand camp fires by night lighted' 
 up the Promenade on the western front of the city. Howard wanted 
 no change, and even deplored the revolution wrought in Memphis 
 modes of business life by cheaper agencies of transportation. He way 
 distinguished for his nervous energy and tireless devotion to business. 
 At length his health failed, and through a series of years he moved 
 idly and slowly about his old haunts on Front street. At last, in- 
 (September, 1871, he lived no more, and was borne to Elmwood,. 
 followed by a great concourse of old citizens. Front street has- 
 almost forgotten even now to call his name, and Ho\vard's Row is his- 
 most enduring monument. He was sixty-five years of age at the- 
 date of his death. 
 
 HUME F. HILL, 
 
 Through a long series of years, was Notary Public and Justice of the 
 Peace in Memphis. He was a Virginian by birth, of excellent good 
 practical sense, was very popular, and held his office without fear of 
 ejection. He died in July, 1870, aged fifty -eight. 
 
122 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 GEORGE L. HOLMES 
 
 Was a New Englander by birth, who became in early life a teacher 
 and citizen of Georgia. He married Miss Rembert, of that State, and 
 not long afterwards became a citizen of Shelby county, Tennessee. 
 He was a successful cotton planter, and in social life a most admirable 
 gentleman. He represented Memphis and Shelby county with great 
 usefulness in the Legislature. He died soon after the cessation of 
 hostilities between the States. He was eminently public-spirited, and 
 aiding liberally in every enterprise designed to enrich the city and 
 county. He was tasteful in dress, easy and pleasing in his manners, 
 faultless in practical morals, a classical scholar, and a devout mem- 
 ber of the Congregational Church. He died in February, 1867, aged 
 sixty-one. 
 
 JOHN HOUSTON 
 
 Was a cousin of Gen. Samuel Houston ; born, we believe, in North 
 Carolina, March 7th, 1792. He made Memphis his home nearly forty 
 years ago, and was distinguished for his seemingly imperturbable good 
 humor and great physical strength. He was once rudely assaulted by 
 a man apparently his equal, and by a single blow — never dreaming of 
 such a result — he killed his antagonist, and never could be induced to 
 strike a man afterward. There was never a citizen of INIemphis more 
 beloved than the laughter-loving, genial, warm-hearted " Uncle Johnny 
 Houston." Such was the appellation ever given him. He died in 
 May, 1863, seventy-three years of age. 
 
 CAPT. J. HAMILTON, 
 
 A young member of the Memphis bar, from Columbus, Georgia, was 
 chosen Captain of the Southern Guards in 1861. His company was 
 afterward assigned to artillery duty and captured, Capt. Tom Johnson 
 then commanding it, at Vicksburg. Captain Hamilton w'as an 
 elegant gentleman, of graceful, easy manners, tasteful in dress, and of 
 winning personal appearance. He died at Columbus, Ky., and his 
 untimely demise was as deeply deplored here as at his original home in 
 Georgia. His body was deposited with distinguished military honors 
 in Elmwood in 1861. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 
 
 C. K. HOLST 
 
 Came to this city thirty-three years ago. As might naturally have 
 been supposed, he was born and reared in Copenhagen, the capital of 
 Denmark, made famous in the world's annals by the genius of Shak- 
 speare as the home of Hamlet, and of the grave-digger. Curiously 
 enough, too, whenever any little untoward event occurred in Mr. 
 Hoist's daily life as a sexton, he was accustomed to exclaim, "There's 
 something rotten in Denmark." It was the life-long habit of Mr. 
 Hoist to Avitness each presentation in Memphis of the play of Hamlet, 
 and on such occasions his whole family accompanied him to the 
 theater. He was eminently prosperous, even as he was tireless in 
 discharging his tasks as an undertaker, and was ever deemed as 
 upright as his avocation was solemn. Nor Avas his seriousness won- 
 derful when we reflect that his hourly conversation was of funereal 
 woes, and his "daily walk" the measured tread of funereal proces- 
 sions. Unhappily, in one of its aspects, for Memphis, he was one of 
 our most active and prosperous business men ; but he knew no guile, 
 and was as truthful as he was serene. When he came to this country 
 he landed in Boston, and haviog no other means of employment was 
 engaged at the city's wharves for some time as a stevedore. He 
 remembered well every incident of the bombardment of Copenhagen 
 in 1812 by Lord Kelson, and Avas accustomed to tell, in 1861-2, of the 
 horrors of war, from which he started back appalled. He died in the 
 midst of the war between the States in 1863, in the sixty-fourth year 
 of his age, honored for his simple virtues and genuine worth. 
 
 JOHN FLOURNOY HENRY, 
 
 The son of the distinguished orator and Confederate States Senator, 
 Gustavus A. Henry, was born in 1837, at Clarksville, Tenn. He was 
 graduated by Stewart College in 1857, and by the University of Vir- 
 ginia in 1858, and by the Lebanon Law School in 1860. He made 
 Memphis his home, and when the war between the States began 
 became a private in the Shelby Grays, and Major of the Fourth Ten- 
 nessee (Neely's) regiment. His services were continuous to the 6th of 
 April, 1862, wdien he fell, leading a charge on the battle-field of 
 Shiloh. A ball had penetrated his right lung. He survived till the 
 28th of April, dying in Memphis. Every virtue adorned his young 
 heroic life, and every honor that a soldier covets was awarded him 
 after death. 
 
124 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 EDWARD LUMPKIN HAMLIN, 
 
 Born in Marshall county, Mississippi, in 1845 ; in September, 1863, 
 became a cadet in the Virginia Military Institute. In 1864, with 
 about three hundred other cadets, he volunteered, was accepted, and 
 entered the Confederate service. The battalion thus organized was 
 subjected to the orders of Gen. John C. Breckenridge, then in the 
 Valley of the Shenandoah. Young Hamlin participated in several 
 battles, and at New Market, with his fellow cadets, was especially dis- 
 tinguished. The battalion was ordered, in the winter of 1864, to the 
 defenses of Richmond, where Mr. Hamlin remained until he was 
 honorably discharged in the spring of 1865. He was assigned to the 
 staff of Gen. M. J. Wright, and served in this capacity till the cessa- 
 tion of hostilities. He returned to Memphis, and became a law stu- 
 dent under the tutelage of Judge Henry G. Smith, and was graduated 
 by the Law School of Harvard University in 1867. He was admitted 
 to the bar, associated in business with his distinguished preceptor. 
 Judge Smith, and began life with prospects as brilliant as his attain- 
 ments were great and personal character admirable, when his career 
 was terminated by his death, August 26th, 1870. 
 
 JOHN F. HAMLIN, 
 
 One of the most accomplished gentleman of his day encountered upon 
 the streets of Memphis, was born in Dinwiddle county, A^irginia. He 
 came to Memphis about 1850, and was a successful cotton planter, his 
 attractive estate lying a few miles southeast from the city. He died 
 in 1864, in the fifty-first year of his age. 
 
 T. W. HUNT, 
 
 A devout member of the Episcopal Church, and for many years a 
 partner, in a most lucrative commission house, of Col. Sara. Mosby, 
 died in Memphis in 186-. In his personal appearance, manners, and 
 intercourse with gentlemen, he was singularly fascinating. His face 
 told of the purity of his purposes, and faultlessness of his instincts. 
 He died in the vigor of manhood, universally beloved, in December, 
 1862, about forty-three years of age. 
 
Biographical Sli etches. 125 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM R. HARRIS 
 
 Was born in 1803, in Monttroniery county, North Carolina. J 11 early 
 vouth, with his fatlier, he came to Bedford county, Tennessee. His 
 educational advantages were limited. In 1825 he read law in the 
 office of Jesse Cook, and began professional life in Paris, in this State, 
 and was wonderfully successful. He was appointed Circuit Judge by 
 Governor Cannon in 1836, and, having been elected by the Legisla- 
 ture, held the office eight years. In 1851 he removed to Memphis, 
 and soon afterward was appointed Judge of the Common Law and 
 Chancery Court, to fill the place made vacant by the death of that 
 extraordinary genius, Judge Wm. B. Turley. By the action of the 
 Legislature he was assigned for eight years to this office. In 1855 
 Judge Totten, having resigned his place on the Supreme Bench, Gov- 
 ernor Andrew Johnson appointed Judge Harris to fill the vacancy. 
 The people confirmed Governor Johnson's choice, and he was elected 
 to fill the place for a full term of eight years. He held this distin- 
 guished jjosition at the date of the tragical event which caused his 
 ■death. On the 13th of June, 1858, the boilers of the steamer Penn- 
 sylvania exploded not far below Memphis. Many were killed out- 
 right. Judge Harris was on board, and being burned by steam, sur- 
 vived only six days, dying January 19th, 1858. Without any of the 
 adventitious aids of fortune, he won the foremost position among 
 lawyers and judges of Tennessee. He was the most industrious of 
 students, most faithful of lawyers, and in social and domestic life his 
 conduct was absolutely faultless. He was sometimes irascible, but his 
 temper only gave vigor to his clear, active, comprehensive, logical 
 intellect. He was the oldest brother of Ex-Governor Isham G. 
 Harris, of Tennessee. 
 
 HON. HAYNES E. HUDSON 
 
 Was born near Rochester, New York, in October, 1838, and was 
 in his thirty-fifth year at his death, on the 4th of June, 1873. He 
 had been a citizen of Memphis since 1865. He filled the office of 
 .Judge of the Criminal Court of Memphis about twelve months, with 
 great ability, and with the strictest impartiality. About three years 
 previous to his death he was appointed United States Attorney, which 
 office he held at his demise. Upon his official life there was not 
 a blemish, and his private and professional life Avas pure. His death 
 was much lamented by his ^professional brethren, and by his fellow- 
 -citizens of Memphis. He ranked as captain in the Federal service. 
 
I 26 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 JAMES M. HOWARD 
 
 Was a native of Sumner county, Tennessee. He came to Memphis in 
 1840, and was associated in business with F. H. Cossitt and I. M. Hill, 
 these three having established the first wholesale dry goods house that 
 existed in Memphis. He died in the forty-first year of his age, in 
 April, 1855, leaving his children the legacy of a spotless name and 
 the example of a blameless life. 
 
 DR. WM. L. IRWIN, 
 
 Born A2>ril 25th, 1819, at Alexandria, Va., was graduated at Prince- 
 ton College, New Jersey, in 1835, at the age of sixteen. He began 
 at once the study of medicine, and was granted a diploma by Jefferson 
 Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1840. He began the pra^ctice of 
 his profession in Murfreesboro, N, C, and was eminently successful. 
 In 1851 he made Memphis his home, where he was ever regarded an 
 accomplished master of the healing art. He was associated, through 
 a series of years, with Dr. Robards, of whom we tell in another place. 
 Dr. Irwin was not only an industrious professional student, but ever 
 conversant with the current literature of his time. Few new books 
 worth reading escaped him. He was a doctor without quackery, a 
 scholar without pedantry, and of course a modest, unobtrusive, 
 elegant gentleman. He died after an active professional career of 
 twenty-one years in Memphis, in 1872. 
 
 S. W. JEFFERSON 
 
 Came to Memphis in 1838 from Sussex county, Delaware, where he 
 was born in 1817. Through a series of years he was a successful 
 tradesman at the foot of Market street. He became a partner of H. 
 Mette. No Memphis firm conducted, through a longer series of years, 
 a business more uniformly profitable and extensive. The partnership 
 subsisted for nearly twenty years, when Mr. Jefferson's failing health 
 compelled his withdrawal from active participation in the transactions 
 of the house. He died February, 1872, in the fifty-fifth year of his 
 age. He was prompt, active, of tireless energy, an excellent trades- 
 man, and left his children the priceless legacy of unspotted fiime. An 
 admirable monument, reared by affection's hand, designates his grave 
 in Elmwood, a photograph of which appears in another place. 
 

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Biographical Sketches. 12; 
 
 GOVERNOR JAMES C. JONES 
 
 Was born in 1809, near the line between Davidson and Wilson 
 counties, within two miles of the Hermitage. His father died while 
 he was yet in his infancy. His early advantages were limited. Not 
 more than two or three years of his life were spent at school, but from 
 the use of books, to which he gained access, he familiarized himself 
 with ancient and modern history, and Avith the elementary branches of 
 an English education. Up to the date of his marriage, in the twen- 
 tieth year of his age, he was chiefly employed on the plantation of 
 Col. Ward, his guardian, but at intervals, when his services were not 
 needed, he spent his time at school and in reading books. At the age 
 of twenty-one his small patrimony was transferred to him by his 
 guardian, and he purchased a farm in Wilson county, where he 
 became the model farmer of his neighborhood. In 1837 he became a 
 member of the Legislature. Whenever released from political cares, 
 he directed all his energies to the construction of great public works. 
 Wherever he lived, cotton factories, turnpikes, and railroads sprang 
 into existence. The largest manufacturing establishment in the 
 South, burned a few years ago at Lebanon, in this State, was the 
 product of his labors, as was a like establishment destroyed in like 
 manner at Memphis. His efforts in behalf of the Nashville and Chat- 
 tanooga railroad, when its construction was first conceived, are well 
 remembered in Middle Tennessee, and the people will not forget his 
 ceaseless toil through two years in behalf of the Memphis and Charles- 
 ton road. The old Memphis and LaGrange road, planned by General 
 Gaines, had proven a disastrous failure. Memphis and the adjacent 
 country was almost without highways of any kind, the city was 
 growing rapidly, and the wagon trade by most men Avas deemed 
 indispensable to the prosperity of Memphis. Almost unaided, save 
 by R. C. Brinkley and a few others, Governor Jones accomplished the 
 herculean task of securing two and a half millions of dollars, for the 
 purpose of building the road, without going into Wall street, or look- 
 ing abroad for aid. The result of his success has been the construc- 
 tion of railways in every direction. Just prior to his death he was 
 chosen President of the I\Iemphis, El Paso and Pacific road, and the 
 last speech he ever made was pronounced in Odd Fellows' Hall in 
 Memphis, accepting this office, and assuring the people that within 
 five years the Mississippi and Pacific, like the Mississippi and Atlantic, 
 ■would be linked together by his toil. 
 
 In 1839 he wa«! the Harrison elector for the State at large, and at 
 
128 Elmwood Cemetery, 
 
 the close of this contest, after the. old party leaders had refused to 
 accept the position, he was assigned the duty of defeating James K. 
 Polk, tlie Democratic candidate for gubernatorial honors. Polk had 
 been elected by ten thousand majority ; he had served eight years in 
 <^ongress; had been Speaker of the House of Representatives; and 
 was deemed irresistible on the score of statesmanship, learning and 
 ■experience. He had never encountered his equal as a popular orator. 
 Governor Jones, thirty-one years of age, and with little experience as 
 a debater, promptly accepted the nomination, and at once set to 
 work to prepare himself for the canvass which was to follow. He was 
 accustomed to speak of his misgivings when he first encountered Mr. 
 Polk; of Mr. Polk's frequent allusion to himself as his ''juvenile 
 competitor; " of the magnificence of Polk's oratory, and of the seem- 
 ingly unanswerable logic which characterized his speeches. He felt 
 himself in the grasp of a giant. He said that his reply would have 
 been impotent but for an accident. Mr. Ledbetter, of Murfreesboro, 
 lianded him, as he arose to speak, an old pamphlet copy of a speech of 
 Mr. Polk on the tariff" question, made when he first entered Congi-ess. 
 Between the speech of that day and that delivered on the occasion 
 referred to, there was a real or fancied inconsistency, which gave to 
 Jones a theme for ridicule and invective, which he well knew how to 
 .exhaust. He said that in this collision his partisan and personal 
 friends expected little from him. He certainly anticipated an over- 
 %vhelming defeat. At night he was congratulated on his success by 
 large bodies of AVhigs, and thenceforward was inspired with that con- 
 fidence born of success. The canvass was a most exciting one, and 
 resulted in Jones' election. At the close of his gubernatorial terra he 
 .and Mr. Polk were re-nominated. The struggle which followed was 
 desperate, of national interest, and Avill never be forgotten by those who 
 then lived in Tennessee, and will ever be memorable as furnishing the 
 jnost brilliant examples of popular oratory and of Avonderful enthu- 
 siasm. The result Avas again in Jones' favor. He canvassed Tennessee 
 in 1844 for Mr. Clay, in 1848 for General Taylor, in 1852 for General 
 Scott, and in 1856 for Buchanan, on each occasion the State voting 
 as he wished. Governor Jones was President of the Memphis and 
 Charleston liailroad Company when elected to the Senate of the 
 United States. 
 
 The intellect of Governor Jones was most vigorous. His education 
 •was not thorough by any means, but application and memory ren- 
 jdered him an accurate historian. As an eloquent and powerful public 
 
Biog7'apJiical Sketches. 129 
 
 debater, Governor Jones had no superior, and es})ecially was he dis- 
 tinguished for his burning, matchless, overpowering oratory. There 
 ■was a quickness of perception, vigor of deduction, a directness and 
 devotedness of i:)urpose, a terrible earnestness and gracefulness of 
 naanuers, v.hich gave him irresistible influence. As a man, he was 
 kind, generous and true — a sincere friend, an open and frank oppo- 
 nent. His hospitality was proverbial, and neither avarice nor malice 
 had a resting place in his bosom. There was an unsullied purity of 
 heart, an inflexible integrity in his conduct, an indescribable fascina- 
 tion in his social intercourse, and an honest frankness in his conversa- 
 tion that won everybody. He died in October, 1859. Bishop Otey 
 pronounced the funeral eulogium, full of love for his life-long friend, 
 and of learning and godlike benevolence, and the greatest concourse 
 that ever entered Elmwood followed the hearse bearing the remains 
 of Gov. Jones. The owners of the Cemetery, in view of his public 
 services, gave a lot, and a tasteful monument marks the spot where his 
 body reposes. A simple legend tells the story of his life and death. 
 He was born in 1809, and died in the fiftieth year of his age. 
 
 SPENCER JARNAGIN, 
 
 Born in Granger county, East Tennessee, came to Memphis about the 
 year 1847. He had already served in the Senate of the United States, 
 and was distinguished, above all men of his time in Tennessee, for 
 simple, natural, faultless eloquence. An ordinary, unstudied speech 
 of Spencer Jarnagin was a clear, rippling, glittering stream into 
 which everybody gazed with rapt attention, fascinated by its matchless 
 clearness and beauty. "When very young he appeared with Badger 
 and Webster at the bar of the United States Supreme Court, and 
 Avon distinguished honors. He died here June 25th, 1851, when asso- 
 ciated as an attorney with Levin H. Coe. Mr. Jarnagin was educated, 
 we believe, at Greenville, East Tennessee. He was, perhaj)s, sixty 
 years of age at the time of his death. 
 
 JUDGE THOMAS JAMES, 
 
 A Kentuckian, who served under General Jackson at the battle of 
 Xew Orleans, spent the last twenty years of his life in Memphis. He 
 gave his name to James Park, and died in September, 1870, aged 
 sixty-five. He served as a member of the Kentucky Legislature, 
 either as Representative or Senator, for twenty years. 
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130 Ehnwood Cemetery. 
 
 JUDGE BENNETT LITTLETON KERR. 
 
 Judge Kerr was born at Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Va., on 
 the 6th day of May, 1798, and died at his residence in this city on the 
 13th of February, 1874, aged seventy-five years. He Avas the oldest 
 son of Rev. John Rice Kerr, an eminent Presbyterian minister. At 
 the age of sixteen Judge Kerr accompanied his father to Kentucky, 
 Avhere he remained until 1865, when he removed to Memphis. In 
 early life he studied law, and 2Dracticed his profession with marked 
 success, and for four years was Judge of Probate Court for Hart 
 county, Kentucky. Judge Kerr was a cultivated gentleman, of good 
 capacity, and the nicest sense of honor and propriety in all things. 
 His leading traits Avere unyielding integrity, simplicity and regularity 
 of habits, unafiected politeness, purity of character and speech, utter 
 unselfishness, a devotion to his family and kindred the most tender 
 and solicitous ; extreme modesty, exact justice and truth, as tested by 
 the standard of the quickest conscience, and an humble, self-distrustful 
 piety, which kej^t him constantly at the foot of the Cross. For more 
 than forty years he had been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian 
 ■Church. As he had lived, so he died, a meek, humble Christian, 
 with "conscience void of offense toward God and man," and, owing 
 no man a dollar. 
 
 CAPT. WM. KEHOE 
 
 Was born, we believe, in this city. In any event his father resided 
 here many years, often representing his ward in the City Council. 
 Wm. Kehoe was a famous Captain of the Fire Department, a position 
 he filled with perfect satisfaction to the people and insurance compa- 
 nies through a series of years. He was buried with distinguished 
 honors by the Fire Department and municipal authorities. He Avas 
 self-possessed in the midst of danger, singularly Avell-fitted to govern 
 men, Avinning confidence and respect, and very certainly there Avas 
 never a j)ublic officer of the city who filled his position more credit- 
 ably, or won greater distinction than "VVm. Kehoe. He died February, 
 1872, aged forty. 
 
BiograpJiical Sketches. 131 
 
 JAMES LENOW, 
 
 Brother of Capt. Joseph Lenow, President, and father of John H. 
 Lenow, Secretary of Ehnwood Association, was a native of South- 
 ampton county, Virginia. He became a merchant and partner of his 
 brother Joseph, at Hickory Withe, Fayette county, Tennessee, in 
 1837. The partners were most successful. In 1846 he became a 
 citizen of Memphis. In 1850 the two brothers were in Louisville, 
 en route to Virginia, Avhere their aged mother had ever resided. 
 James Lenow became sick and died in Louisville, his brother watch- 
 ing tirelessly and constantly at his bedside. The mother of the 
 brothers had preceded the son to the land of shadows, but her death 
 had not been announced to them. James Lenow was a most skillful, 
 thoughtful merchant, prompt and honorable. His word was his bond, 
 and in every relation of life he was a faultless gentleman. At the 
 time of his death, June 9th, 1850, he was forty years of age. His 
 remains Avere removed October 28th, 1859, to Elmwood, from a 
 private burying-ground. 
 
 D. M. LEATHERMAN 
 
 Was born, we believe, in Giles county. Middle Tennessee, He came 
 to Memphis a lawyer in 1848, and was made Prosecuting Attorney 
 by the State Legislature. He served for a time in this capacity, and, 
 having made money by investments in real estate, retired from active 
 professional life. For twenty years he did little else than Avauder 
 about from city to city, leading a life of easy indolence. He died in 
 Jul}^ 1873, aged sixty years. He was the first President of Elmwood 
 Association. A photograph of his vault on Chapel Hill, containing 
 his remains, adorns a page of this volume. 
 
 GARDNER B. LOCKE, 
 
 AVho was ]\Iayor of Memphis in 1848-9, was long a citizen of this 
 county before he became a Memphis merchant. In early life he was 
 the friend and associate of David Crockett, and, like Crockett, was 
 distinguished for his integrity of character, and indomitable energy. 
 When financial ruin overwhelmed Mr. Locke, the people never with- 
 drew confidence, and he was invested with most honoi-able municipal 
 ofiices. He would have retrieved his fortunes, but the dull, heavy 
 shadows of coming calamities preceded the war between the States 
 and darkened the last hours of many like Gardner B. Locke. He 
 died December, 1859, about sixty years of age. 
 
132 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 COL. SAM. LEAKE, 
 
 The most esteemed country inn-keeper of his time, Avas a Virginian by 
 birth. A quarter of a century ago the lawyers of Memphis Avere wont 
 to ride the circuit, attending all the courts in four or five adjacent 
 counties. Whenever limbs of the law set out, there was a common 
 understanding that the first night of absence from the city was to be 
 spent at Col. Leake's. Those were nodes ambrosiance. Col. Leake, 
 then nearly sixty years of age, was full of vivacity, tall, slender, 
 graceful, of tireless good humor, a capital story-teller, and above all 
 an excellent violinist. When the law} ers came, girls from neighbor- 
 ing farm-houses were gathered in, -and Terpsichore and Solon danced 
 joyously, and often furiously. It was with a festival like this that 
 Col. Leake, a devout Whig, was celebrating the supposed defeat of 
 Polk and election of Henry Clay in 1843-4. News came slowly in 
 those days, and statements were constantly corrected or contradicted. 
 A stranger appeared, and while a dozen pairs were dancing merrily, 
 and Col. Leake fiddled in ecstacy, the stranger announced the triumph 
 of Polk, and produced incontestable evidence of the correctness of his 
 assertions. The music was heard no more, lights were extinguished, 
 the merry dancers stood still, loquacious lawyers were silenced, and 
 Col. Leake, with tearful eyes, and trembling lips, told the story of 
 Polk's victory and Clay's defeat. It Avas a terrible revulsion of 
 feeling which he underwent, and never more did he become so 
 thoroughly absorbed in a political contest. He lived many years after 
 this, making his residence, twenty-four miles from Memphis, on the 
 Somerville road, the constant abiding place of generosity to the poor, 
 and of boundless hospitality. There was not a more kindly or more 
 truthful, trustworthy gentleman of his time than Col. Sam. Leake. 
 He was born in Virginia, and died about 1853, j^erhaps sixty-five 
 years of age. His remains were recently re-interred in Elmwood. 
 Col. Sam. Leake was the father of the late Dr. Virginius Leake, 
 Avho, at the time of his death, in 1873, was State Senator from the 
 county of Shelby. 
 
 HENRY LAKE 
 
 Was a Marylander by birth. In 1834 he became a successful mer- 
 chant in this State, he and his partner, Wm. Armour, owning at one 
 time thirteen mercantile establishments in as many different towns 
 
Biographical Sketches. 
 
 and cities. The collapse of 1837-40 came, and the firm was bank- 
 rupt. Henry Lake devoted nearly thirty years of his life to the 
 simple purpose of paying debts begotten by this calamity. His cred- 
 itors never sued him, and were paid, at last, the last farthing. His 
 honest worth was properly appreciated by the people, and through a 
 long series of years he held the office of County Register. He was a 
 devout member of the Baptist Church, and no purer or better man 
 ever lived and died in Shelby county than Henry Lake. He died 
 October, 18GG, aged seventy. 
 
 DR. JOHN W. LEFTWICH 
 
 Was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in 1827, and died March Gth, 
 1870, at Lynchburg, Va. Li 1832 his family found a home in Maury 
 county, in this State. There he was a farmer's boy, and indebted 
 to his own industry for a liberal education. He was a regularly 
 trained and graduated physician, and was heard to say that he was 
 led to question his own skill and attainments when his patients died, 
 and abandoned the practice of his profession from convictions of 
 duty and sensitiveness of feeling, when he might have won its high- 
 est honors. He came to Memphis in 1854, and was a successful 
 tradesman. In the war between the States he stood aloof — never 
 faltering, however, in his devotion to the Union. His unquestioned 
 honesty won for him the confidence alike of Northern and Southern, 
 Union and Confederate people, and in 1866 he was chosen a member 
 /of the Federal Congress, having been elected by an overwhelming 
 majority. He voted steadily with the Democratic minority, and was 
 a steadfast and zealous friend of President Andrew Johnson. Li 1868 
 he was defeated in the contest for re-election by David Nunn. Then 
 the whites Avere disfranchised, and negroes were invested with the 
 right of suffrage. Soon afterwards he was made Mayor of INIemphis, 
 an office Avhich he filled with satisfaction to the people. He was ten- 
 dered a foreign mission, but deemed its acceptance, while in office as 
 Mayor, unjust to the people of Memphis. He was again defeated for 
 Congress, but believing that he had been elected by the people, he 
 was en route to Washington to prosecute the contest for his seat, 
 ■when stricken by disease at Lynchburg, where he died. 
 
 He was generous, kindly, amial)le, of pleasing address, a clear, 
 consecutive thinker, and a simple and logical reasouer. His manner 
 
134 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 of speaking was most winning and persuasive. In fact, his honest 
 face, clear blue eyes, and palpable earnestness, won him troops of 
 friends and adherents. He was distinguished for his tact and admira- 
 ble bonhomie, and tireless industry and stainless public and private 
 morals. He was a faultless citizen, and there is no occupant of Elm- 
 wood whose personal fame is more admirable than that of John W- 
 Leftwich. 
 
 JOHN C. McLEMORE, 
 
 Born in Orange county, North Carolina, January 1st, 1790, died 
 February 20th, 1864. He became a clerk in the Surveyor General's 
 office, at Nashville, in 1806. On the death of his uncle, Col. Wm, 
 Christmas, Mr. McLemore succeeded to his office, and was retained in 
 it by the Legislature many years. He married the daughter of John 
 Donelson, and, rich in gold and popular confidence, wielded unex- 
 ampled influence, especially in the central and western districts of 
 Tennessee. There was never a citizen of the State so thoroughly 
 cognizant of all facts affecting the value of land in all portions of 
 Tennessee. Generous in giving information, and never misleading- 
 those seeking his assistance, he was the guide-book to migratory 
 populations from older States. He bought Gen. Jackson's share in 
 the John Rice grant, on which Memphis stands, and, as lauded 
 proprietor, was generous to the last degree. He was only too con- 
 fiding, and lost heavily by endorsing the notes of his friends. He 
 designed a monument to his life-long associate, President Jackson, 
 intended to be erected on the summit of the great mound at Fort 
 Pickering. With Gen. Gaines he planned, and aided in the partial 
 construction, nearly forty years ago, of a railway to LaGrange, 
 designed to be extended to Charleston. Even then he discussed and 
 defined the route of a road to the Pacific, across western plains and 
 prairies, and, in old age, when the scheme began to assume practical 
 shape, no one evinced keener interest in its consummation. He was 
 of courtly manner, of most benignant expression of face, tall, slender, 
 graceful in bearing, and always well dressed. Admirable gentlemen 
 were John C. McLemore, M. B. Winchester, Charles Lofland, John 
 Pope, and many like them, who made truth and honor the only 
 touchstones of respectability and social recognition in the olden time. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 
 
 DR. AYRES PHILLIPS MERRILL 
 
 The son of a soldier of the revolution, was born at Pittsfield, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1798. He studied medicine, and at the age of twenty-one 
 became a surgeon in the United States army. He served at Pensa- 
 cola, New Orleans and Natchez, first under Gen. Jackson, and later 
 under Gen. Zachary Taylor. With both those famous men. Dr. Mer- 
 rill's relations of close personal friendship were never interrupted 
 while they lived. While filling an array surgeon's place, in cities of 
 the South, Dr. Merrill became most skillful in the treatment of yellow 
 fever, and in reference to this scourge, which has made the year 1873 
 the blackest in the annals of Memphis, and transferred a multitude 
 from the City of the Living to that of the Dead, he wrote many able 
 disquisitions. He was a constant contributor to the periodical and 
 newspaper literature of his time. He resigned his place in the army, 
 Avas married, and made his home in Natchez. He was for many years 
 President of the Agricultural Bank, and founded the public school 
 system of Natchez, as he did that of Memphis. He became a citizen 
 of Memphis in 1851, and resided here till 1867, when he went to New 
 York. In Memphis, he participated actively and earnestly in the 
 determination of every question affecting public interests. He edited 
 a medical journal ; was a zealous, learned professor in the Medical 
 College ; was a member of the Vigilance Committee of 18G1 ; and 
 almost daily a contributor to the local newspaper press. His firmness, 
 though admirable, never degenerated into obstinacy, nor his learning 
 into pedantry. Serving the world with unexampled zeal and philan- 
 thropy, he never forgot to serve his God. He died a devout Episco- 
 palian, in New York, November 3d, 1873, and at his own request, 
 was interred in Elmwood. He was an original shareholder in the 
 Elmwood Association. 
 
 R. A. MOON 
 
 Came to Memphis from Virginia in 1849. He was a successful 
 commission merchant, and, personally, a most popular citizen. Born 
 in 1824, he died in 1869, in the very midst of a most useful and 
 actively-spent life. 
 
136 Elmwood Cemetery 
 
 JACOB N. MOON 
 
 Came to Memphis ia 1828 from Albemarle county, Virginia, and at 
 the time of his death, in 1873, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, was 
 one of the oldest residents of the city. For many years he was a 
 most successful merchant, connected with prosperous houses in Kew 
 Orleans and in Memphis. He was most successful in money-making, 
 but left to his children an infinitely more valuable legacy in his 
 spotless fame than in the wealth he gathered. After a long and 
 tedious sickness, and conscious for several days that he must die, Mr. 
 Moon turned, with a smile upon his pale, wan features, to his physician, 
 Dr. R. F. Brown, and said: "Brown, you don't know, my dear fellow, 
 how easy it is to die with a clear conscience." Mr. Moon died as 
 fearlessly as he had lived, never once shrinking when death drew 
 near, illustrating, in the supreme moment, the fact that he deserved 
 the fame he had won — that of an honest man. 
 
 CAPT. CHARLES MAY, 
 
 Born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1818, became a citizen of 
 Memphis in 1854. Here he was a successful business man. He was 
 chosen Second Lieutenant, in 1861, in Charles McDonald's company, 
 and, when the sixty day command was dissolved, was chosen Captain 
 of "Forrest's Rangers." He joined Col. Forrest at Fort Donelson, 
 then beleaguered by Grant's army. He led in a successful charge 
 upon a Federal battery, and fell at the head of his command. His 
 body was brought to Memphis and buried with distinguished honors 
 jn Elmwood. A plain marble monument marks his grave, on which 
 appears the inscription : 
 
 Capt. Charles May, 
 
 OF 
 
 Forrkst's Rangers, 
 
 Died February 15th, 1862, aged 44 years. 
 
 Fell on the battlefield of Fort Donelson. Brave, generous and firm, he fell while 
 
 leading a charge on the enemy's battery. His last words were "Onward, 
 
 my brave boys; onward to victory I " 
 
Biographical Sketches. 137 
 
 JOHN R. McCLANAHAN, 
 
 Through a long series of years, Avas the proprietor and editor-in-chief 
 of the Appeal. He was its manager when it was driven from one 
 point to another while war raged in the Gulf States. He was its 
 editor at Grenada, at Jackson, at Montgomery, at Atlanta and Macon, 
 Ga. He watched its fortunes with sleepless affection and care, and 
 made it one of the best publications of its time in the South. 
 
 McClanahan was born in South Carolina, and came in early life to 
 Jackson, Tennessee, where he was a carrier-boy for Col. Jesse H. 
 McMahon, as he was afterwards his rival and political antagonist 
 through a long series of years in Memphis, For several years, he was 
 associated with Henry Van Pelt, and afterward with Leon. Trousdale, 
 an accomplished writer and excellent gentleman. McClanahan Avas 
 endowed with great physical and intellectual energy. He wrote 
 unpolished but most vigorous and effective editorials, and in the arena 
 of ever3'-day political combats of his time, was worthy the steel of the 
 most skillful antagonist. He was utterly fearless, and of infinite 
 good nature. Gen. Smith P. Bankhead, when editing the Whig, 
 assailed ]\IcClanahan, as the latter thought, with indefensible violence. 
 McClanahan went into Bankhead's office and demanded an instant 
 retraxit, or fight, and a beautiful fight they made of it. Decent 
 people did not wear pistols and knives in those days. These two were 
 each well pleased with the pluck of the other, and there was an end 
 of it. McClanahan was a soldier in the Mexican war, in w^hich he 
 participated in the battles of Scott's campaign. He died in July, 
 1865, aged forty-six, and a truer gentleman, or more generous spirit, 
 or kindlier nature, reposes not in Elmwood. 
 
 JOHN B. MOSELEY 
 
 Was born, we believe, in Richmond, Va. He was educated as a 
 typographer in "Father Ritchie's" Enquirer office. He came to 
 Memphis about the year 1835, and afterward was proprietor of the 
 Eagle and Enquirer, edited by Jere. Clemens and Solon Borland — both 
 ex-United States Senators. They wrote ably, and Clemens with rare 
 brilliancy, but the paper did not flourish, and Mr. Moseley became 
 Sheriff of the county. He administered the office with perfect fidelity 
 to every public and private trust. He died in October, 1867, fifty-five 
 years of age. 
 
138 Elmwood Cemeteiy. 
 
 JUDGE JOHN A. NOOE 
 
 Was born in Richmond, Va., in 1812. When very young he came 
 with his fother to Northern Alabama. He was the first graduate sent 
 forth, in 1832, by the once famous University of that State. He read 
 law at the same time with the late T. J. Turley, in the ofllice of 
 V. D. Barry, at Bolivar. Judge Nooe died in this city December 
 16th, 1865, and there was never a member of the bar more admirable 
 for manly and Christian virtues, for stainless integrity, for fidelity to 
 trusts reposed, or for tireless devotion to tasks of professional duty. 
 He was a sound, clear-headed master of his profession, even as in 
 social life he was an elegant gentleman. 
 
 R. E. ORNE, 
 
 The agent, through a long period, of a Boston comj)any of land- 
 owners in Mississippi, was originally a sea captain, sailing from 
 Boston, we believe. In any event he had circumnavigated the globe, 
 and was fond of spinning yarns always full of interest. He was well 
 educated, a humorist and hon vivant. He was short and stout of 
 person, and his face singularly pleasing. Fewer men made more 
 friends in a briefer period than R. E. Orne. He made money withal, 
 and died in September, 1860, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, as 
 thoroughly well esteemed in Memphis as in his native New England 
 town. He was an original shareholder in Elmwood. 
 
 PHILIP A. OWEN 
 
 Was a successful merchant of high character, through a series of 
 years in New Orleans. He died there of yellow fever, November 3d, 
 1853, in the thirty -seventh year of his age. He was a brother of 
 Miles Owen, of Memphis. 
 
 CAPT. WM. N. PORTER, 
 
 Served through the Mexican war as captain of a company of cavalry, 
 gathered in Memphis, Avhich was a part of the only cavalry regiment 
 from Tennessee. He died in New Orleans, on his way home from 
 Mexico, in 1847. His remains were interred in Morris Cemetery, and 
 removed to Elmwood. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 139 
 
 POOLEY BROTHERS. 
 
 On lot No. 179, Fowler Section, located in the north-east portion 
 of Elmwood Cemetery, and on the north side of the Road of 
 Honor, are buried two brothers, William and James Pooley, and 
 their brother-in-law, Robert Purdy. All these were natives of Scot- 
 land. William Pooley and Robert Purdy came to Memphis in 1854, 
 as merchant tailors. James Pooley settled in Memphis in 1859, as a 
 jeweler. He established the jewelry store now occupied by F. D. 
 Barnum — his brother-in-law and successor. They were steady and 
 skillful men in their respective vocations, and being prosperous in 
 business, purchased country homes in the vicinity of the city. All 
 three, in succession, received fatal injuries by being thrown from 
 a buggy while returning home from business after dark. To make 
 this remarkable coincidence the more singular, the horse or horses (for 
 they were ditfereut) on each occasion took fright and ran off just out- 
 side of the old entrenchments. The following are the dates of these 
 sad casualties — the first two being in close proximity of time : 
 
 Robert Purdy was thrown April 31st, and died May 1st, 1861. 
 William Pooley was thrown July 15th, and died August 27th, 1861. 
 James Pooley was thrown March 25th, 1865, and was killed instantly. 
 
 Such was the sad and melancholy coincidence in the death of these 
 brothers ! They were true and good men, thoroughly indoctrinated 
 into Old Scotia's religious faith, and all who knew them will admit 
 that the moral portrait of a good man, drawn by the most sublime of 
 all poets, is highly appropriate : 
 
 " Lord, vho 's the happy man that may to thy blest courts repair. 
 Not stranger-like to visit them, but to inhabit there ? 
 'Tis he whose every thought and deed by rules of virtue moves ; 
 Whose generous tongue disdains to speak the thing his heart disproves. 
 Who never did a slander forge, his neighbour's fame to wound ; 
 Nor hearken to a false report by malice whispered round. 
 Who vice in all its pomp and power, can treat with just neglect ; 
 And piety, though clothed in rags, religiously respect. 
 Who to his plighted vows and trust has ever firmly stood ; 
 And though he promises to his loss, he makes his promise good. 
 Whose soul in usury disdains his treasure to employ ; 
 Whom no rewards can ever bribe the guiltless to destroy. 
 The man who, by this steady course, has happiness insured. 
 When earth's foundations shake shall stand, by Providence secured." 
 
140 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 THOMAS F. PATTISON, 
 
 Son of Col. George Pattison, was born at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1842. 
 He Avas most active and successful in organizing a company of soldiers 
 from Memphis, that never, through the war, lost its identity, or e^'prii 
 die corps — the Bluff City Grays. Mustered into service as orderly 
 sergeant of this company, Avhich became part of the immortal One 
 Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment, he served through the 
 Kentucky campaign, participated in the battles of Shiloh, and of 
 Richmond, Ky., where Gen. Bull Nelson owed overwhelming defeat 
 mainly to the conduct of this body of soldiers, and to the skill of 
 Preston Smith, its colonel, then, we believe, commanding a brigade. 
 By young Pattisou's hand the Confederate flag was first unfurled from 
 the summit of the State House, at Frankfoi't, Ky. He became 
 captain of his company, and, transferred with it, as part of McDonald's 
 Battalion, to Gen. Forrest's Division, particiimted in every subsequent 
 conflict in which Gen. Forrest was a central figure. Constant devotion 
 to duty, and the hardships of camp life were fatal to his health and 
 strength. He died in 1868, the most amiable and courtly of gentle- 
 men, even as he was the most daring and resolute of soldiers. His 
 younger brother, Robert F., was captured in New Orleans in 1862, 
 was paroled because of impaired health, and, gunboats holding the 
 river, he sailed for Memphis by way of Boston. He died in the latter 
 ■city in 1862. Another brother of the two above named fell, a 
 sergeant of the Bluff City Grays, on the battlefield of Shiloh, and a 
 fourth brother was accidentally killed in Memphis by a rocket fired by 
 an unfortunate youth. The stick struck the knee joint, and, from the 
 effects of the painful wound, young Pattison died the next day, De- 
 cember 25th, 18G8, in the eighteenth year of his age. 
 
 CAPT. ED. E. PORTER 
 
 Was born and reared in Memphis, his father. Col. Ethel H. Porter, 
 having resided in the city more than forty years. Capt. Porter was 
 educated especially that he might occupy the pulpit of the Presby- 
 terian Church. He Avas an excellent scholar, and effective preacher. 
 When war raged he became the leader of a cavalry company. He 
 was as distinguished for his personal heroism as for generosity and 
 truthfulness. He died in October, 1867, aged thirty-six. 
 
Biographical Six etches. 141 
 
 MAJOR JAMES PENN, 
 
 Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, was the famous banker of his time in 
 Memphis, and leading Mason of Tennessee, died July 21st, 1870, 
 seventy-six years of age. He was a bank officer, either president or 
 cashier, for thirty-five or forty years. When he was growing old, and 
 still serving the Planters Bank of Tennessee, he discovered that he 
 had written the words "James Penn" so constantly, through a long 
 business life, that the particular nerves and muscles exerted to shape 
 the letters constituting the name, refused to perform the task. He 
 could write any words save the two, " James Penn." His purity of 
 purpose, conduct and character, were never impeached, and the 
 Angeroua Lodge of Masons, which he served so long and faithfully, 
 will never suffer his memory to die. 
 
 COL. R. A. PINSON 
 
 Made Memphis his home in 1866. He came from Mississippi, where 
 he often served in the State Legislature. He commanded a famous 
 cavalry regiment during the war between the States, and was certainly 
 one of the most popular officers in the Confederate army. After the 
 cessation of hostilities he was elected a member of the Federal Con- 
 gress from Eastern Mississippi, but was not suffered to take his seat. 
 He became a most successful merchant in Memphis, where he died at 
 his lodgings in the Peabody Hotel, May 17th, 1873, aged forty-five. 
 He had served two terms as President of the Memphis Chamber of 
 Commerce, and won as great a degree of poj)ularity here as he had 
 achieved in Mississippi. There have been few men as faultless, in all 
 the relations of life, as R. A, Pinson. 
 
 J. M. PROVINE, 
 
 A real estate broker, was distinguished for his inflexible integrity. 
 When a delicate trust affecting the interests of widows or minors, was 
 to be executed by an agent of a local court, J. M. Provine's services 
 were commonly invoked. He not only determined justly the value of 
 real property, but did right from instinct. He was anything rather 
 than voluble in assigning reasons for his decisions, but was always 
 just. He was a devout Cumberland Presbyterian, illustrating his 
 faith in his daily words and deeds, and at last in his death, which 
 occurred in 1872, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. 
 
142 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 WILLIAM PERSON 
 
 The orthography of the ohl Huguenot name has been somewhat 
 changed, but the family retained peculiarities of the exiled French 
 Protestants, which were illustrated in the conduct and character of 
 Mr. Person. A recluse in habits, he preferred the deep repose and 
 silence of swamps and forests to the busy din and excitements of city 
 life. He "was wont to say, when wandering over his broad acres, just 
 south of Memphis, that there was more beauty, poetry and attractive- 
 ness, and more value, in his eyes, in the grand old oaks that bent their 
 boughs above his modest homestead, than in the costliest abodes of 
 metropolitan opulence. In the deep solitudes of five thousand acres, 
 which he owned in a single tract, he lived most plainly and frugally. 
 His clothing was homespun ; his food the product of his farm and 
 garden. He read many books, and through a long life of solitude, 
 rarely broken save by negro servants, he gathered stores of curious 
 and varied information, of the extent and character of which they 
 little dreamed Avho knew only the rude exterior of the eccentric old 
 man. Born in Warren county, North Carolina, he came to Tennes- 
 see in 1818, and fixed his residence a few miles south of Memphis. 
 The military warrants, on which the Person's grant was based, were 
 located by the father and brothers — William, Tom, Dick and Ben 
 Person, in 1808. They built the first grist mill that crushed corn in 
 Shelby county. This historical building stood on Nonconnah creek, 
 four hundred yards below the Hernando road. Mr. Person went back 
 and forth to and from his old home in North Carolina sixty-five times 
 on horse-back. He brought to this county the first cotton seed ever 
 planted Avithin its limits — transporting two or three sacks over the 
 mountains to the banks of the Mississippi in a classic North Carolina 
 go-cart, modeled, as our readers know, after the fashion of old Roman 
 chariots ; and there were never nobler old Romans than the pioneers 
 of Tennessee, who came in these chariots from North Carolina. 
 There were no cotton gins in those days — nimble fingers doing the 
 work of these machines. White people of the county were most 
 anxious to secure cotton seed, and Tilman Bettis, Sol. Rozell, and 
 others, picked cotton, and then with their fingers picked out the seed, 
 half the latter belonging by contract to Mr. Person. The seed were 
 measured in Rozell's shoe. These facts become historically important 
 when we reflect that Shelby county and its ca})ital has greater wealth 
 grown exclusively from the seed of which we tell, than perhaps any 
 equal area of country on the globe. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 143 
 
 Mr. Person acquired habits of research and of reading of wliieli hi^i 
 fellow-men knew little. Especially was he addicted to the study of 
 botany ; and his love for trees of rare symmetry, of towering branches 
 and rich foliage, was a singular and the strongest passion he indulged. 
 He loved them, 
 
 since their summits all 
 
 hues take. 
 Veiled in filmy haze at morn they lie ; 
 At noon in lavender ; at eve they shake 
 Their purple shadows on the stream below. 
 Toning a scene they scarcely deign to show. 
 
 He gave generously to the poor, and yet spoke harshly of idleness, 
 the fruitful parent, he alleged, of poverty. He died in this city in 
 1865, in his seventy-second year, having been expelled his home, 
 ])lundered by Federal soldiers. He never recovered from the effects 
 of personal maltreatment then endured. 
 
 JOHN POPE 
 
 "Was a Georgian l>y birth, and a pupil of the famous Moses Waddell, 
 with A. B. Longstreet. Subsequently he was an undergraduate of 
 the University of Nashville with E. H. Foster and John Bell. He 
 was gi-aduated at Yale, a classmate of John M. Clayton, United 
 States Senator from Delaware, and of Isaac Holmes, of South Caro- 
 lina, Thomas A. Marshall, of Kentucky, and John D. Eccles, of 
 North Carolina. He married Miss Louisa Rembert, of Georgia, and 
 removed to Alabama, where he represented Madison county in the Leg- 
 islature. He became a citizen of Memphis, and was eminently useful as 
 President of the Agricultural Association of Shelby County. It was 
 commonly said of him, that in view of Southern modes of life, and 
 peculiar social institutions, he made agriculture as nearly perfect as 
 was possible. He and George L. Holmes, and Samuel Bond, each of 
 this county, received medals from the British World's Fair, in 1852, 
 for the best upland cotton exhibited. Prior to 1834, when first the 
 Memphis and Charleston road was planned, in a convention at Bolivar, 
 he and Gen. E. P. Gaines were of a committee to inquire into the 
 ■ways and means of its construction. He was a member of the Mem- 
 phis Southern Commercial Convention of 1845, over which John C. 
 Calhoun j^resided, and submitted a report, afterward widely published, 
 urging the necessity for the diversification of Southern industrial 
 pursuits. Prior to this, in 1832, he was nominated, by a large. 
 
144 Elmwood Cejnetery. 
 
 popular assemblage, a candidate for the 8t:ite Constitutional Conven- 
 tion. He declined to accept the office. He was, in 1851, induced, 
 by the leading citizens of the city and county, to become a candidate 
 for the Legislature, and was defeated by Major M. B. Winchester by 
 only fifteen votes. He was, through a long series of years. President 
 of the Union Bank, of which we may never see its like again, and 
 very certainly no banking institution was ever blest with a President 
 who was a more felicitous colloquist, or more graceful, elegant gentle- 
 man. He died March 27th, 1865, aged seventy-one years. 
 
 REV. H. S. PORTER 
 
 Was born in 1816 in Butler county, Kentucky, and educated in the 
 common schools of the country. He was licensed to preach in 1835, 
 and ordained at Glasgow in 1837, to the work of the Gospel, by the 
 Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Through three or four years he 
 was an itinerant preacher. Then he took charge of the chui'ch at 
 Fayetteville, Tenn., and after this traversed the Southern States, 
 rendering himself beloved, as his eloquence was everywhere applauded 
 and admired. la 1843 he took charge of a chui'ch in Philadeli^hia, 
 and in 1851 left that city for Memphis. He remained here till 1855, 
 one of the most popular and successful preachers Memphis has ever 
 known, when he fell a victim to the epidemic of that year. Though 
 his early intellectual training was defective, yet by steady, persistent 
 toil he became one of the foremost scholars of his time in this city. 
 He died universally lamented, as he was admired and beloved. 
 
 DAVID PARK, 
 
 A native of Ireland, came to Memphis thirty-five years ago. He was 
 the first to establish successfully and permanently the business of 
 cotton brokerage in Memphis, first taking cotton samples from this to 
 Eastern cities. This was in 1845. For a series of years he was the 
 most extensive and successful operator in the cotton market, and a 
 daring operator he was, and the revulsions of his fortunes were 
 frequent and violent. No one ever questioned his integrity. He 
 paid to the last farthing, and was never disi^irited, Avhatever his luck. 
 He was ever distinguished by his kindness of manner and imperturb- 
 able good humor, and few men have lived in Memj)his who were more 
 warmly greeted everywhere by a greater number of people than David 
 Park, He died in 1856, aged fifty-nine. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 145 
 
 WILLIAM KING POSTON 
 
 Was born at Clarksville, Tennessee, whence he came to Memphis, 
 more than thirty years ago. He rose steadily in the ranks of his pro- 
 fession until, at the date of his death, there were few if any attorneys 
 or barristers deemed his superiors. He was an accurate, logical 
 thinker, and spoke with great facility. His manner, when addressing 
 a jury, was easy and graceful, his voice smooth, even musical ; his 
 gesticulation natural and attractive ; his expression of face eminently 
 pleasing. He was drawn at last into the political arena, and in con- 
 junction with Sam. P. Walker, in 1866, represented Shelby county 
 and the city of Memphis in the lower branch of the State Legislature. 
 It is needless to say that abler, worthier men have rarely if ever occu- 
 pied seats in the capitol of Tennessee. Mr. Poston's habits were 
 faultless. He was a devout Christian, devoted to books, and especially 
 to professional learning. The bar of Memphis has not lost a worthier 
 member, or society a more agreeable gentleman, or the State a better 
 citizen. He died in 1866, in the forty -seventh year of his age. 
 
 COL. WM. B. ROSS 
 
 AYas born in 1831, and soon after attaining his majority became a 
 successful merchant and broker in Memphis. Though only thirty 
 years of age when the war between the States was begun, he had 
 already won eminence among tradesmen, and was deemed a wonder- 
 fully clearheaded operator in the money, and bond, and cotton 
 markets. He grew rich rapidly. When hostilities began he was 
 active in creating and organizing tlie Second Tennessee Regiment, of 
 which he was made Lieutenant Colonel. He was a participant in the 
 battles of Belmont and Shiloh, and distinguished for his fearlessness. 
 When the term of enlistment of his regiment expired, he was 
 appointed Lispector General on the staff of Major Gen., afterward 
 Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart. He was serving in this capacity when 
 the battle of Murfreesboro was fought, December 31st, 1862. There 
 he fell mortally wounded. His division had been engaged nearly the 
 whole day, and everywhere Col. Ross was conspicuous for gallantry 
 and skillful conduct. He died of his wounds, not supposed at first to 
 be mortal, January 2d, 1863, and was first interred at Murfreesboro, 
 while Bragg's army was moving slowly, wearily, half starved, from the 
 place. His remains were transferred, a few years ago, to Elmwood. 
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146 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 JAMES ROSE, 
 
 A Virginian by birth, came to Memphis nearly forty years aga;. 
 He was soon made a Justice of the Peace, and occupied an office at 
 the corner of Main and JefJerson streets, through a long series of 
 years. He was distinguished for his simplicity of character, honesty^ 
 and truthfulness, and was one of the most popular local public officers 
 ever known in Memj^his. He died in his buggy, on his way fror» 
 Raleigh to Memphis, of heart disease. The old citizens of Memphis 
 were deeply grieved, and surely they never followed a purer or better 
 man to Elmwood. Through a long period he was Senior Warden of 
 Calvary Church — a position he filled at the time of his death, in, 
 April, 1855. He was about seventy years of age. 
 
 LEWIS R. RICHARDS 
 
 Was, we believe, a Kentuckian by birth. He came to Tennessee- 
 many years ago, and, when first known to the writer, was cashier of 
 the Branch Bank of Tennessee, at Somerville. vSubsequently he- 
 filled with unmixed satisfaction to the public, and to the stockholders,, 
 the same position in the Branch Union Bank, at Memphis. He 
 became City Register more than a quarter of a century ago, and had 
 been re-elected by each successive city council until the people 
 believed he had a fee simple title to the place. He deserved it. 
 There was never an officer that executed a public trust with rarer 
 fidelity, or filled a position more satisfactorily to the public. He died 
 while holding this office in the fall of 1873, about seventy years of age;- 
 
 R. V. RICHARDSON 
 
 Came to Memphis, a lawyer, in about the year 1845. He was- 
 associated, through a series of years, with J. P. Caldwell, and 
 afterward became a contractor and built levees in Arkansas and 
 Mississippi. He commanded a regiment, and at one time, we believe,, 
 bore a brigadier's baton. He conducted an irregular border warfare 
 in Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. After peace he returned to his 
 original jjursuits, and was assa.ssinated not far from New Madrid, in 
 Missouri. He was removed to Elmwood from Missouri in January^ 
 1870. He was forty-nine years of age. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 147 
 
 REV. WM. C. ROBB, 
 
 Who died near Memphis in 1858, in tlie forty-third year of his age, 
 was born at Gallatin, Tennessee. His father, James Robb, was one 
 of the first merchants that ever traded in Mcmjihis. The son of whom 
 we speak, was educated as a lawyer, and practiced his profession until 
 1847. Having served through the war with Mexico, he became an 
 itinerant Methodist preacher, and one more earnest or devoted, has 
 rarely served this branch of the church militant. As an evidence of 
 his personal worth, he was retained in their service by the churches 
 of this city, in violation of the customs of Methodism, for several 
 successive years. Here he died, filling the place and actively dis- 
 charging the duties of Presiding Elder. The people of this city, who 
 knew and loved Mr. Robb, sympathized with the churches that deeply 
 and widely deplored his untimely death. 
 
 SOLOMON ROZELL 
 
 Was an original character, even as were his intimate associates — Til- 
 man Bettis, and Anderson B. Carr. The three were of the first white 
 inhabitants of this county of Shelby, and at one time constituted the 
 County Court — at least, Bettis and Rozell were members of this body. 
 They were also managers of the system of schools then in vogue, and 
 though neither could read or write, their native intelligence, shrewd- 
 ness and tact made their services in this behalf eminently satisfactory 
 to the people. It was the province of these men, who had never seen 
 a surveyor's chart or theodolite, to define the route of public highways. 
 They were practised woodsmen, and the most skillful engineers of sub- 
 sequent years never found reason to condemn the acts, in this behalf, 
 of the two frontiersmen, who opened the highw^ay from Memphis to 
 Raleigh and Somerville. Mr. Rozell died in 1856, seventy-nine years 
 of age. 
 
 VOL. P. ROGERS 
 
 AVas born four miles east of Memphis, his father, one of the old 
 citizens of Shelby county, having been a proprietor of the Clayton 
 Place. The son, of whom we speak, was distinguished for his skill 
 and courage as an ofiicer and soldier, and for his generosity and 
 truthfulness as a citizen and friend. He died February 16th, 1869, 
 in the thirty-ninth year of his age. 
 
148 Ebnwood Cemetery. 
 
 F. Y. ROCKETT, 
 
 An Alabamian by birth, was educated for the bar, and practised law 
 some years in Mississippi. He then became the conductor of a news- 
 paper in that State. Afterward he edited the Evening Ledger, of 
 Memphis, through a series of years. He wrote smoothly, often beau- 
 tifully. Especially were his tastes, as a Uterateur, adapted to those of 
 educated women. The Ledger prospered under Rockett's administra- 
 tion, even as it does to-day. He was the writer of excellent verses, 
 and now and then produced a poem that deserves to live. His versifi- 
 cation of Gen. Beauregard's order, asking the churches of the South 
 to send their bells to the foundries that they might be cojiverted into 
 cannon, was published everywhere in this country, and even in the 
 best British magazines. He died in 1872, about fifty years of age. 
 
 MAJ. WM. RUFFIN, 
 
 One of the original shareholders in Elmwood Cemetery, was born in 
 King AVilliam county, Va., 1797. He served through the war of 
 1812-15, and became a citizen of Somerville in 1832, Avhere he was a 
 director of the Branch Bank of Tennessee. He came to Memphis in 
 1848, and established the original gas-works company, of which he 
 was President till he died in 1857. He was deemed a man of stain- 
 less integrity, of great energy and excellent practical good sense. 
 
 DR. NAT. RAGLAND 
 
 Came to Memphis from Kentucky. By birth he was, we believe, a 
 Virginian. He never practiced his profession in this city, but became 
 largely interested, as a land-owner, in the fortunes of Memphis. He 
 was about sixty-five years of age at the date of his death. 
 
 M. SCHILLING, 
 
 Born in 1819, in Dedikofen, Baden, Germany, was a citizen of Mem- 
 phis for twenty-one years. His bakery through a long period was a 
 famous institution in northern districts of the city. He was distin- 
 guished for his generosity to the unfortunate, and his death from 
 yellow fever in November, 1873, was greatly deplored. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 149 
 
 DANIEL SAFFARANS 
 
 Was born in the Valley of Virginia, and served as a soldier at the 
 age of sixteen in the war of 1812. He made Gallatin, Tennessee, his 
 home about 1820, and soon afterward became potent among the 
 Chickasaw Indians. He induced them to cross the Mississippi, and 
 aided in transferring them to their present domains. He effected a 
 lasting peace between the Chickasaws and Choctaws, who had been 
 always at enmity. He spent many years with these tribes, and in 
 managing their affairs at the Federal Capital. While in Washington 
 he became interested with George Law in steamship lines. He 
 supplied the Government with arms, built bonded warehouses and 
 lighthouses, was a contractor to finish the Navy Yard, at Memphis, 
 paved the streets of Memphis with gravel, and built many public and 
 private buildings. He established a furniture factory, which was 
 sold at his death, and afterward burned. Through thirty years Daniel 
 Saftarans, though never an aspirant for office, Aviekled great political 
 influence in Tennessee. His head was massive, his intellect strong 
 and active, his capacity for labor great, and energy tireless. He 
 died sixteen years ago in this city. 
 
 COL. WM. STRONG 
 
 Was a native, we believe, of Georgia. He, with the rest of his 
 father's family, were descending the Mississippi in a flatboat, when the 
 violent earthquakes of 1811-12 occurred at New Madrid. The flat- 
 boat occupied by the pioneers was wrested from its moorings, and 
 swept backward during the night many miles toward the Ohio. The 
 amazement of those on board the " broadhorn " was boundless, and 
 the strange incident was often mentioned by Col. Strong. He was a 
 member of the great mercantile firm of his time in Memphis, that of 
 Dixon, Strong & Co., and built much of the roadway, under a con- 
 tract with the Government, across the lowlands from Memphis to the 
 St. Francis river. This firm, about the years 1836-40, issued change 
 notes, which for a time constituted the greater part of the currency of 
 Memphis. He retired, at length, to his home three miles northeast of 
 the city, and became the "model fiirmer"of Shelby county. His 
 perfect integrity was never impeached. He was about seventy years 
 of age at the time of his death. 
 
150 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 MATTIE STEPHENSON 
 
 Came hither in 1873, when pestilence swept away multitudes, to serve 
 the poor and helpless and plague-stricken. It was a rare enthusiasm 
 and an extraordinary impulse which induced the young and admirable 
 woman to abandon home and friends in a distant northern State that 
 she might minister to the wants of strangers. There was a broader 
 philanthropy pi-actised by her than statesmen have recognized in legis- 
 lation or Christians in the practice of the divinest precepts of the 
 church. Florence Nightingale had served the sick and wounded of 
 armies and battlefields. History caught the name and fame syllabled 
 the story of her illustrious deeds. Mattie Stephenson came unherald- 
 ed. She only asked that she might serve the poor and helpless. She 
 sought no reward save the consciousness of doing good. Of fame she 
 never dreamed. Of money she brought none, but bore her life in her 
 hand and tendered it to the needy and suffering. It was said of her 
 that the name of this poor, unknown girl who to-day sleeps in Elm- 
 wood belongs not to Memphis ; not to the little village which so recent- 
 ly knew her ; it belongs to the world, to the records of a heroism to 
 which that of the conqueror of empires seems the merest devotion to 
 duty. Yet it is in our power, as it is our duty as a people to whom she 
 came, a ministering angel, when the very air bred pestilence from 
 which many thousands fled, and for whom her life was willingly 
 sacrificed, to commemorate her virtues and her devotion to scourge- 
 stricken sufferers. Her memory is enshrined in our hearts. But let 
 us hasten to mark with a monumental shaft the sacred spot in Elm- 
 wood upon which the shimmering rays of the sun descend, to brighten 
 with their roseate hues the little mound that rests so lightly upon the 
 bosom of our dead heroine. 
 
 The Elmwood Association have appropriated a lot that a proper 
 monument may be erected in attestation of her virtues and worth. 
 
 FRANCIS SHOEMAKER, 
 
 Through a long series of years, was a merchant at Holly Springs, 
 Miss. He grew rich, retired from active life, and made Memphis his 
 home fifteen years ago. He died in 1872, aged eighty-three years. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 1 5 i 
 
 GEN. PRESTON SMITH 
 
 Was a native, we believe, of Giles or Maury county, Tennessee. Pie 
 tjecame" a citizen of Memphis in 1850, and practiced his profession, 
 that of a lawyei-, for some years, with a share of assiduity. . He had 
 ..almost abandoned it, however, when the clangor of arms gave a new 
 direction to his thoughts, fired all his energies and latent ambition, 
 .and inspired a degree of enthusiasm never before illustrated in his 
 conduct. He left Memphis, in the spring of 1861, to serve under 
 •Oens. Polk and Pillow, commanding a regiment never surpassed in 
 the intelligence of its men or in their worth as soldiei's, illustrated 
 rafterward on countless battlefields. The regiment was ever known as 
 the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee, the number given it 
 ■under the old militia organization of the State. It fought every- 
 where — at Belmont, Corinth, Murfreesboro, Richmond, Ivy., where it 
 won its proudest laurels, at Chattanooga, and at Chickamauga, where 
 Preston Smith, then a Brigadier, fell at the head of his troops. His 
 :StafF officers, Harris and Donelson, and others, went down at the same 
 instant, and braver men, or truer soldiers, never sacrificed life for 
 lienor and fame. Gen. Smith was interred in Atlanta, but his remains 
 .-after peace, were transferred to Elm wood. He was strongly and com- 
 pactly built, below the medium hight, of infinite good humor, when 
 not playing the part of an officer, and every inch a soldier. He was, 
 -.at the time of his death, about forty years of age. 
 
 GRANVILLE D. SEARCY, 
 
 Born and educated at Nashville, was for many years a most successful 
 lawyer at Memphis. He resided several years in Tipton county, rep- 
 resenting it in the lower, as, afterwards, this county in the upper 
 branch of the State Legislature. In both Houses he was deemed the 
 leader of his party, and its strongest thinker and speaker. He resided 
 through a brief period in Somerville, and came to Memphis, perhaps 
 an 1846 or 1847, where he practiced his profession, save when a mem- 
 ber of the Senate, most assiduously. In his intercoui'se with the 
 people, his bearing, manners and conversation were eminently pleasing. 
 He was of Falstaffian proportions, of infinite good humor; and espe- 
 -eially were young lawyers, Avhom he constantly served and instructed, 
 •devoted to the generous and kindly Granville D. Searcy. He died 
 .Pecember, 1853, about fifty years of age. 
 
152 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 JUDGE THOMAS R. SMITH, 
 
 Born in Maine, November 27, 1830, was graduated by Bowdoin 
 College at the age of nineteen. He became at once a school teacher 
 at Bolivar, Tenn., and meanwhile studied law under the instructions 
 of Judge Austin Miller. He was admitted to the bar, became 
 Robert H. Wood's partner in 1852, and was eminently successful in 
 fame and money-making. In 1862 he became a citizen of Memphis, 
 and in 1866 Judge of the City Law Court. He soon resigned the 
 position, and began at once a most lucrative practice. For several 
 years he was President of the Memphis School Board, and did as 
 much as any other citizen to popularize and make the system useful. 
 For some years, and at the time of his death, he was attorney for the 
 Bank of Tennessee, engaged in liquidating its accounts and adjusting 
 its liabilities, a most laborious and responsible position. His physical 
 energies were overtaxed, his health failed, and in March, 1872, he 
 met death with that unquailing courage with which he encountered 
 the duties of life. When told that death was inevitable, he replied 
 calmly, " I am not afraid to die. I bow to the inevitable." He left 
 his wife, a daughter of Pitser Miller, and his six children, a rich 
 heritage, in an honored name, and noble example. A fir tree, 
 transplanted from groves that made attractive the hills and valleys of 
 his childhood's home, casts it shadows, and stands a tireless watcher 
 above his grave. A shaft of granite, cut from rock-ribbed hills of 
 Maine, tells wanderers in Elmwood where this truest and worthiest of 
 the children of New England rests — 
 
 " Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 
 
 Maine has given the South two citizens, of whom, when we cease to 
 boast, the South will be unworthy of their fame and of her own. 
 S. S. Prentiss and Judge Smith were only alike in that they were 
 great ; the one, in his vices as in his transcendant genius ; the other, 
 in the pellucid clearness of his logical intellect, perfect moral purity^ 
 and faultless personal conduct and character. Judge Smith deserves 
 the more lasting honors at the hands of posterity. Him we may 
 reverence; Prentiss we can only admire in rapt wonder. 
 
 LOUIS SERVATUS, 
 
 Born at Hezrat, Reihnprovinz, Germany, in the year 1819, came to 
 the United States in 1846, and after residing for a time in Phila- 
 delphia, went to Baltimore. Here he conducted a prosperous businessr 
 
Biographical Sketches. 153 
 
 as a leather-dealer, and was accounted one of the most estimable Ger- 
 mans in the city. From Baltimore he went to Marietta, Georgia, and 
 there having suffered great losses, because of the late war, Avas forced 
 to change his domicil, and came to this city. After having faithfully 
 served here as a policeman for eight years, he died of yellow fever, 
 October 26, 1878, aged 54 years. 
 
 JOHN F. SALE, 
 
 And his twin brother Thomas, were born in Amherst county, Virginia, 
 1823. In 1829 the family migrated to Kentucky, where he was 
 instructed in books mainly by an older brother, a member of the bar. 
 This brother bequeathed his library to John F. Sale, then only twelve 
 years of age. At nineteen he entered the law office of Judge Arch- 
 ibald Dixon, and at the age of twenty-one was admitted to the bar, 
 and almost immediately elected Attorney for Union county, holding 
 the office till he resigned it in 1849, when he became a citizen of 
 Memphis. A stranger in Memphis, and with a family to support, he 
 was for a time the editor of a Whig newspaper and naval storekeeper, 
 with a salary of $2,000 per annum. In 1853 he was elected Pros- 
 ecuting Attorney, filling the office one terra, Avhen he was beaten in a 
 contest for it, by nineteen votes. From this time forth he made the 
 criminal practice a specialty till his death, November 19th, 1872. 
 Though his denunciations of perjury and other villainy were always 
 terrible, he was rarely involved in personal difficulties. A German 
 shoemaker once attempted to kill him, but forgot to cock his pistol, 
 and was mercilessly knocked down. He had a quarrel with a gentleman 
 of Memphis, and was shot through the knee. His good humor was 
 as infinite as his capacity for violent invective was without parallel. 
 His anger, easily aroused, was short-lived, and he was utterly incapable 
 of malice. His sympathies were easily excited by human suffering, 
 and his generosity of opinion and action was boundless. His perception 
 of the ridiculous was most keen, and his capacity to present a grave 
 proposition in most ludicrous aspects was absolutely marvelous. He 
 spoke with great fluency and earnestness, and was often brilliant and 
 eloquent. There was genius written in his face, in his lofty brow and 
 flashing eyes, and many, many years must elapse before the lawyers of 
 Memphis forget to tell of the rare, original, umque speeches and 
 witticisms of John F. Sale. 
 
154 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 E. P. STEWART, 
 
 An excellent gentleman, for many years a citizen of Memphis, and 
 President of Elmwood Cemetery Association at the time of his death. 
 He died February 8th, 1859. In attestation of his admirable personal 
 worth, the Board of Managers of the Cemetery have ordered a proper 
 monument to be erected over his grave. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held on the 8th February, 
 1859, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That we have heard this morning with astonishment and 
 unfeigned regret the announcement of the sudden death of E. P. 
 Stewart, Esq., late President of the Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 Resolved, That this corporation, in common "with the entire commu- 
 nity, have sustained an irreparable loss in the sudden death of a citizen 
 so universally loved and admired ; so gentle, yet so true and fiiithful 
 to every trust; enterprising, public spirited and fair in all his trans- 
 actions, he merited, as he received in this community, of which he 
 has been long a most valued citizen, the title of an honest man. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender to his family, so suddenly stricken down 
 with the most heartrending grief at the loss of their late head and 
 protector, our sincere condolence and sympathy. 
 
 Resolved, That the stockholders of the Cemetery be requested to 
 attend his remains in a body to their last resting place, which he so 
 much delighted to beautify and adorn. 
 
 ANDREW STEWART, 
 
 A Virginian, born 1788, came, when a boy, with his father to 
 Nashville. Subsequently he was a citizen of Hickman, and, later, of 
 Madison, removing to Shelby county in 1851. He was the oldest 
 living subscriber to the Appeal, having become such with the first 
 issue of that newspaper. In taste, habits of thinking, conduct and 
 character, he was a worthy type of western pioneers. Few or none 
 are now living of his class, and living links that bound us to the last 
 century, as this volume attests, are all broken. Even the children of 
 these brave old men are growing old and forgetful of fireside stories to 
 which they were wont to listen when patriarchs, like Andrew Stewart, 
 gave simple recitals of lives of toil and daring deeds. There are 
 many living descendants of this honest old citizen. They show in 
 their intercourse with men that precepts of honest worth, inculcated 
 by example, are never lost in shaping the character and deeds of 
 posterity. 
 
Biographical Sketches . 155 
 
 J. T. SWAYNE, 
 
 A nephew of Justice Swayne, of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States, was born, we believe in Paris, Tennessee. He was of Virgin- 
 ian parentage, and may have been a native of that State. He made 
 Memphis his home about thirty-five years ago, and soon won influence. 
 He was a sober, industrious, pains-taking hiwyer, a voluble speaker, 
 thoroughly trustworthy, and a Christian gentleman. He was devoted 
 to the duties imposed by his church, and was the straightest of his 
 sect. The First Presbyterian church, which Judge Swayne served so 
 long and well as an elder, sustained in his death an irreparable loss. 
 He became the judge of the Criminal Court, and served in this capacity 
 Avhen Memphis was under the domination of Federal bayonets. No 
 threat of power ever caused Judge Swayne to swerve from the plain 
 path of duty, and he enjoyed popular confidence to an extraordinary 
 extent. He delivered the annual address before the Old Folks Asso- 
 ciation in 1873, and said, after reciting the virtues of members who 
 had died during the year, that there were those listening to him 
 who would never meet again on a like occasion. He was the first to 
 die. Within a month he rested in Elmwood. His death, caused by 
 yellow fever, occurred October 11th, 1873, in the fifty-fourth year of 
 his age. 
 
 RICHARD D. STARR 
 
 Was born in New London, Connecticut, at the period of his birth, the 
 peculiar abiding-place of whaling-vessel sea captains. Mr. Starr was 
 soon afloat and drifting in early manhood along the coast of CliUi, 
 on a whaling voyage, soon found himself a captive and his vessel 
 appropriated by the semi-savage people. He was made a slave in 
 Valparaiso and acted as herdsman for a somewhat indulgent master. 
 He took advantage of night, secured a little fishing smack and put to 
 sea alone. Fortunately he was picked up by a Yankee schctoner, and 
 when he came home was never more so fond of a seafaring life. 
 Memphis contained no truer Christian or more rigidly honest, upright 
 citizen than R. D. Starr. He was boi"n with the century and died 
 in 1872, a reverend deacon of the First Presbyterian Ciiurch. He 
 came to Memphis in 1837, and during his long citizenship there was 
 never the slightest aspersion to sully his spotless fame. 
 
156 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 GEORGE W. SMITH 
 
 A native of Wilson county, Tenn., was an ancient lawyer of ancient 
 days in Memphis. In any event he was a Director and Attorney for 
 the old Farmers and Merchants Bank, a famous institution of its time. 
 In 1849-50 he was, for a brief period, treasurer of the Memphis and 
 Charleston R. R. Co., then recently organized. He was careless in 
 business matters, and once, when the postoffice was on Madison street, 
 where the First National Bank now stands, Mr. Smith, who was 
 wonderfully obese, was standing in the midst of a crowd. His hat 
 was blown away. It was the treasury of the railway company, and its 
 contents were some $3,000 in bank notes. His efforts to recover the 
 flying notes were wonderful for a man of his weight. He lost only a 
 few dollars; but retired from the treasurership. He did not like it. 
 He was an excellent, practical lawyer, and was, personally, highly 
 esteemed. He died in October, 1856, about fifty years of age. 
 
 HENRY STRATTON, 
 
 Born in 1789 in Bedford county, Virginia, became a citizen of 
 Simpson county, Kentucky, in 1813. He was appointed by Governor 
 Slaughter a magistrate of his county in 1819, and held the office for 
 many years, till, by virtue of seniority, he became sheriff". He filled 
 this position several terms. In 1841 he became a citizen of Holly 
 Springs, and in 1846 removed to Memphis. Here he managed, till 
 his death in 1849, a most prosperous commercial house. He was 
 somewhat formal in social intercourse, grave and dignified, but his 
 friends were many and devoted to him. His excellent practical good 
 sense, and confessed integrity, won him a profitable trade. He left an 
 invaluable " good will " to his successors on Front Row, and a spotless 
 name to his children. 
 
 DR. LEWIS SHANKS, 
 
 A Virginian by birth, came to Memphis about the year 1835. He 
 assumed at once a high position in professional life ; became a pro- 
 fessor for a time in the Memphis Medical College, and was esteemed 
 an admirable lecturer. Many of his theses were published in medical 
 journals, and few physicians of his day were more widely known, or 
 
Biographical Sketches. 157 
 
 highly esteemed, in this and adjacent States. He was one of the 
 founders of Calvary Church, and died one of its wardens. His gen- 
 erosity as a physician to the poor was boundless. His death in October 
 1861, was caused by the accidental substitution of morphine for 
 quinine by a servant, when the Doctor had asked for the latter drug. 
 
 THOMAS J. TURLEY, 
 
 A most successful lawyer of Memphis, was born near Alexandria, 
 Virginia, in 1807. "When very young he came to Middle Tennessee. 
 He taught school at Clarksville, afterward at Bolivar, in Hardeman 
 county, where he read law with Judge Barry, was admitted to the 
 bar, and soon afterward opened an office at Raleigh. He came to 
 Memphis about the year 1840, and in 1843 married Flora C. Battle. 
 He became the partner of Judge Archibald Wright in 1850, the firm 
 conducting a most lucrative practice until Mr. Turley's death in 1854. 
 He was below medium hight, slender, of dark skin, black eyes, 
 straight, regular features, and of most kindly, prepossessing appear- 
 ance and manners. He devoted himself Avith unsurpassed assiduity to 
 the prosecution of professional tasks. Turley Section, in which he is 
 buried, was so called in honor of the subject of this brief sketch. He was 
 one of the original stockholders and founders of Elmwood Cemeteiy. 
 
 His brother, AVm. B. Turley, was perhaps naturally, and because of 
 his extraordinary attainments, one of the greatest lawyers whose 
 genius has adorned the annals of Tennessee's jurisprudence. His 
 decisions, while a member of the Supreme Court of this State, are 
 models of perspicuity and resistless logic. He was induced to resign 
 his place on the Supreme bench and become Judge of the Common 
 Law and Chancery Court of Memphis, the citizens of Memphis 
 having doubled the salary given by law by private subscriptions. He 
 grasped propositions and solved questions that vexed others, instantly, 
 and in the fewest words expounded the most difficult problems. His 
 massive head seemed the very abode of the lightning, such was the 
 vividness, brilliancy and quickness of his strokes of genius. In 
 personal appearance he was unlike his brother. He was somewhat 
 corpulent, and of fairer complexion, and a much larger man. He 
 was leaning on a walking stick at Raleigh ; it broke in twain ; he fell, 
 and a sharp point of the broken cane entered his body. He died in 
 the very noonday of his intellectual greatness, ])elovcd by the bar, 
 even as he was admired of all men. 
 
158 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 COLONEL JAMES TREZEVANT 
 
 Was of a Huguenot family expelled from France by the revocation 
 of the edict of Nantes. They found a home in South Carolina. The 
 father of James Trezevant was taken prisoner by the British in the 
 old war of American Independence and liberated in Virginia, where 
 he was married. His oldest son, of whom Ave tell, Avas born near 
 Petersburg in 1 783. He was educated mainly by his father, a graduate 
 of Princeton College, though for a year or longer he AA'as an under- 
 graduate of William and Mary College. He became a lawyer, and 
 soon Avon a lucrative practice. Having every admirable quality of 
 head and heart, he Avas often elected a meml)er of the Legislature, 
 and Avas a member of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia of 
 1829. He commanded a regiment during the Avar of 1812, called out 
 to protect the Virginia coast. He was thrice chosen, during the 
 Presidential terms of Monroe and Jackson, to represent his district in 
 the Congress of the United States. His health became seriously 
 impaired, and in the very midst of progressive good fortune he Avas 
 forced to abandon his political career. In 1832 he left Southampton, 
 Va., and became a citizen of Tennessee, and in 1837 bought his home 
 near Memphis, Avhere he spent the remainder of his life in quiet 
 retirement. He died in 1841, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He 
 AA^as generous to his friends and to the unfortunate, and the country 
 has never lost a Avorthier citizen. 
 
 DR. WM. J. TUCK, 
 
 Born in Halifax county, Va., February 22d, 1814, was graduated by 
 Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1834, and by the Medical Department of 
 the University of Pennsylvania in 1838. He came to INIemphis in 
 1842, and in 1852 Avas made Secretary of the Board of Health, a 
 position he occupied, Avith brief interruptions, till his death in 1859. 
 During the year 1858, and till his death, he filled the chair of "Insti- 
 tutes of Medicine " in the IMemphis Medical College. He Avas a 
 constant contributor to then current professional literature, and pub- 
 lished an attractiA'-e little volume, still prized in Sunday-schools, 
 entitled " Sabbath Reading." Dr. Tuck's life, as a Christian gentle- 
 man, Avas as admirable as his habitual professional skill and conduct. 
 
Biographical Sketches. 159 
 
 LIEUT. COL. ED. BUTLER TREZEVANT, 
 
 A son of Dr. Lewis C. Trezevant, was born in this, Shelby county, 
 Tenn., in 1838, and educated at St. James' College, Maryland. When 
 war between the States was begun, he w^as Assistant Circuit Court 
 Clerk. He enlisted in the Memphis Light Dragoons, was chosen Third 
 Lieutenant, and was first in action in October, 1861, near Paducah, 
 and afterward, November 7th, participated in the battle of Belmont. 
 His health failed, but restored by a sojourn of a few months in Texas, 
 he returned to the army in May, 1862, joined Gen. Forrest at Corinth, 
 and was made Sergeant Major, and became Adjutant in June. The 
 regiment was soon dissolved, and several of its companies were organ- 
 ized as a squadron, of which Trezevant became Major. He partici- 
 pated in the battles and skirmishes at Middleburg, Mendon, Britton's 
 Lane, luka and Corinth, displaying in camp and on the field the 
 highest qualities of a soldier. In February, 1862, with Van Dorn's 
 command, he entered Tennessee, having been made Lieutenant Colonel, 
 and placed in command of the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry. Leading 
 this regiment in a charge, on the 5th of March, 1864, he was mortally 
 wounded, a rifle ball penetrating his body. Mrs. Bond, of Spring 
 Hill, watched by his bedside with a mother's care and tenderness till 
 he died two days afterward. He was tall, slender, lithe, active, grace- 
 ful in his manners, of fair complexion, black hair and regular, W'ell 
 shaped features. His face beaming with kindliness and intelligence, 
 he was one of the most attractive young officers of the army of Ten- 
 nessee, and his untimely death was deeply deplored, and especially by 
 the followers of Forrest and Van Dorn. 
 
 COLONEL FRAZER TITUS, 
 
 At the time of his death, in 1870, was one of the very oldest citizens 
 of Memphis. He came hither from Alabama, though we believe he 
 was a native of Eastern Tennessee. He was a grocer when he first 
 made Memphis his home, and afterward became a cotton broker and 
 prosperous commission merchant. He was eminently successful in 
 money making, though a heavy loser by the war between the States. 
 In 1861 he was President of the Vigilance Committee of this city, 
 and conducted its aflfairs, for one of his excitable temper, with won- 
 derful moderation and good sense. Colonel Titus was seventy years 
 of age at the time of his demise in June, 1870. 
 
i6o Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 JOHN R. TRICE. 
 
 A tasteful monument on the Grand Tour, erected by the citizens of 
 Memphis to incomparable, self-sacrificing heroism, marks the grave 
 of the heroic pilot of the ill-fated steamer Caroline. The inscription 
 on the monument, thus tells the simple but eloquent story : 
 
 John R. Trice, 
 
 Born December loth, 1832, Died March 5th, 1854. 
 
 A tribute to the brave pilot who died at his post, while steering the burning steamer 
 
 Caroline, to the shore. He saved many lives; himself he could not save. 
 
 The gallant Trice, at the post of duty, undaunted, met death. Life 
 
 strove to lure him with her glorious beauty, but he preferred to die, 
 
 rather than to desert honor's cause. His loss was life; his 
 
 gain, the world's applause. His last words were, 
 
 '' Captain Taylor, the tiller rope is burned ! " 
 
 John Kandolph Trice was born at Paris, in this State. An only 
 child, he was an orphan from his early youth, and knew only a mother's 
 care and guardianship, and a sister's love. In 1840, at the age of eight 
 years he came to Memphis, and was bewildered by the majesty of 
 the mighty river ; and if the Mississippi be an inland sea, was a sea- 
 man from childhood. On board Mississippi steamers, like Mark Twain 
 (Clemmons), he filled every subordinate position, and on the 5th of 
 March, 1854, was pilot on the Caroline when the hapless little steamer, 
 in the midst of a shoreless river, the whole country at that time 
 being submerged, took fire. Trice had said not long before, to Captain 
 Bateman, that if a steamer of which he was pilot, were burned, he 
 would save the passengers or die at the wheel. He verified the asser- 
 tion to the letter, and there was never an illustration of sublimer 
 devotion, of loftier courage, almost divine in its exhibition of unsel- 
 fishness, than that given by John R. Trice. There are many soldiers 
 that rest in Elmwood, and fair women, grateful for exhibitions of 
 heroism that do honor to our race, are accustomed annually to bestrew 
 their graves with choicest flowers of spring-time. But no truer, braver 
 soldier fell in war, than was the heroic pilot of the steamer Caro- 
 line. He held the bow of the burning vessel steadily toward the 
 shore, and when all were surely saved, he was heard to exclaim : " The 
 tiller rope is burned ! " and he was seen and heard no more. The bow of 
 the steamer, on which the crew and passengers were crowded together, 
 touched the only spot of land anywhere visible, and the pilot at the 
 wheel went down in a tempest of flame, and was never seen afterward. 
 
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 DR. WM. V. TAYLOR. 
 
 For many years deemed the foremost member of his profession in 
 Memphis, was born in 1790, in Yorktown, Virginia. He was gradua- 
 ted by William and jNIary College, and afterward by the Pennsylvania 
 University of Philadelphia, receiving the degree of M. D. He 
 served through the war of 1812 as assistant surgeon of the ship Con- 
 stitution, and shared in the dangers of the wonderful conflict between 
 this vessel and the British ship Guerriere. He married Fanny, 
 daughter of Leonard Henderson, Chief Justice of North Carolina, 
 one of the greatest jurisconsults, whose learning adorns the books of 
 his profession. Dr. Taylor practiced medicine most successfully in his 
 native State, but was induced, in 1835, to migrate to Western Tennes- 
 see. He lived for a time in LaGrange, and in 1839 resided in Holly 
 Springs. In 1848 he was made a professor in the Memphis Medical 
 College, and became a citizen of this city, where, through twenty 
 years, he practiced his profession with great success. He died May 
 7th, 1873. Aside from professional pre-eminence, no gentleman in 
 social life was more esteemed than Dr. Taylor. For manly honor, 
 delightful courtesy and faultless professional deportment, he was espe- 
 cially distinguished. Christianity and benevolence gowned with glory 
 a life of distinguished usefulness, and made his death as effective a 
 lesson as his life had been full of practical goodness and philosophy. 
 
 JOHN TRIGG 
 
 Was ])orn and reared in Sumner county, Tennessee, and made Mem- 
 phis his home about the year 1843. He was a successful speculator 
 in land, and grew very rich. He died about sixteen years ago, highly 
 esteemed among business men for his fidelity to his personal obliga- 
 tions, even as he was distinguished for his sound practical good sense. 
 He died June, 1863, about seventy years of age. 
 
 BROOKS R. TREZEVANT 
 
 Came to this city from Southampton county, Virginia, nearly forty 
 years ago. He was Deputy County Court Clerk, and most intimately 
 associated with James Rose, of whom we tell in another place. They 
 occupied tlie same office, and never have two worthier men filled 
 public places in Memphis. Mr. Trezevant died in 1852. 
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1 62 Ehnwood Cemetery. 
 
 A. B. TAYLOR 
 
 "Was born near Nashville, in 1796, and when only fourteen years of 
 age entered the army under General Jackson. He fought in several 
 battles, participating in that of the 8th of January, 1815, at New 
 Orleans. He was afterward a keel-boat captain, his Noachian craft 
 plying for many years between Nashville and New Orleans. In 1833 
 he became a citizen of Raleigh, the old capital of this county, and 
 was a successful farmer and merchant till he became, in 1848, a citizen 
 of Memphis. He served three successive terms as the chief magistrate 
 of this city, and retired from office honored for his unbending integrity 
 and respected for his excellent, practical good sense. He died on his 
 farm in Crittenden county, Arkansas, in 1866, aged seventy years. 
 
 DR. JAMES MONROE WALKER. 
 
 This gentleman, hardly more distinguished for suave, courtly man- 
 ners, than for professional skill and attainments, was born in 1804, in 
 Buckingham county, Va. He was graduated with high honors by 
 Hampden Sidney /College, and subsequently by the Lexington Trqp- 
 sylvania school of medicine. In 1827 he became a citizen of Nash- 
 ville, and was a partner of the once famous Dr. Hogg. Dr. Walker 
 married an accomplished woman, the daughter of Col. John C. 
 McLemore, whose name occurs on every page of the early annals of 
 Memphis. Dr. Walker removed to LaGrange, in this State, in 1835, 
 and was the partner there of the late Dr. AVm. F. Taylor, Sr. He 
 made Memphis his home in 1839, and was ever regarded, up to the 
 date of his death in 1863, one of the most learned and skillful physi- 
 cians of the city. 
 
 JESSE T. WALDRAN, 
 
 A magistrate of Shelby county, Tennessee, through twelve years, wa& 
 born in North Carolina in 1791. During nine years in early life he 
 was a seaman. He became a citizen of Tennessee in 1818, having 
 his home near Nashville. He became a citizen of Shelby county in 
 1825, and of Memphis in 1841, where he died March 12th, 1869, in 
 the seventy-eighth year of his age. Through all his long life he bore 
 a reputation for spotless integrity, and therefore this tribute to his 
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 COL. JOSEPH B. WHITE, 
 
 Who died in Memphis, at the residence of his daugliter, Mrs. E. 
 AVooldridge, May, 1873, in his ninety-third year, reached a greater 
 age than any one thus far interred in Ehnwood. He was born in 
 Hanover county, Virginia, in 1781 ; was the son of Gen. Thomas 
 White, of revolutionary fame, and the friend and associate of John 
 Randolph and Patrick Henry, and of the heroes and statesmen of 
 Virginia of that day. This fact made him, in the later years of his 
 l)rotracted life, the most interesting talker of his time. He was with 
 LaFayette, and welcomed him to Virginia when he revisited this 
 country in 1825. Col. White's physical energies were unimpaired 
 until within a brief period anterior to his demise, and his intellect was 
 ever active and unclouded. He was a strong j^^^i'tisan, and devoted 
 to the ci*eed of Jackson and Jefferson, even as he bowed reverently 
 before the majesty of Jefferson's fame and genius. 
 
 SETH WHEATLEY, 
 
 Whose home, at the eastern extremity of Adams street, was once the 
 abode of intelligence and taste, and the scene, in the olden time, of 
 many a brilliant entertainment, was a native of Virginia. Forty years 
 ago he came to Memphis, and was one of the first lawyers that made 
 this city the scene of his triumphs. He was President of the Farmers 
 and Merchants Bank, and Attorne}'' for the institution. He built his 
 own monument, a magnificent vault of Nashville stone, and his body 
 rests in a sarcophagus of the same material. He was not brilliant, 
 but of sound, practical, good sense, and by steady, patient toil, and 
 rigid economy, gathered wealth. He died June, 1858, in the fiftieth 
 year of his age. 
 
 S. B. WILLIAMSON 
 
 AVas a successful merchant, through a long series of years, on Front 
 street, Memphis. A magnificent monument in Elmwood, attesting 
 the high appreciation by the living of the worth of the dead, lifts its 
 tasteful form above the grave of Mr. Williamson, and on its sides is 
 carved the glory of his life and death. 
 
164 Elmivood Ct77tetery. 
 
 EDWIN WHITFIELD, 
 
 The son of F. E. AVliitfield, Avas born in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, in 
 1841. His father came to Memphis in 1847, and young Whitfield 
 was graduated hy Union University, in 1859. He became a bank 
 clerk in Memphis, and when the late war began, was a subordinate 
 officer in Stutham's brigade until at Vicksburg he was attached to the 
 staff of Gen. W. C. Preston, with whom he served till both fell 
 wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro, young Whitfield terribly, in the 
 head, by the same volley that slew the gallant Captain Orville Ewing, 
 of the same staff. Whitfield was taken prisoner, but left to die, as his 
 captain thought. He was tenderly cared for by citizens of JNIurfrees- 
 boro, recovered, went a prisoner to camp Chase, was exchanged, and 
 returned to duty with Gen. Preston. This gentleman was sent a 
 diplomat to Mexico, and young Whitfield still affected by his wound, 
 became an ordnance officer. At the cessation of hostilities he became 
 a member of the firm of Moore, Whitfield & Co., and was a success- 
 ful merchant. He was eminently popular. On the 8th of January, 
 1869, he was killed by a madman or assassin, whom he probably did 
 not know. 
 
 J. J. WORSHAM 
 
 W^as a Virginian. He came to Memphis perhaps thirty years ago, 
 and was the proprietor of the Worsham House, and for a long time 
 its popular landlord. He was addicted to the chase, and spent weeks 
 and months in the wilds of Arkansas. Among Masons he was deemed 
 an unsurpassed master of the mysteries of the Order, all of whose 
 honors he wore and degrees he had taken. He and Albert Pike, as 
 Masons, were ever inseparable associates. Mr. Worsham made count- 
 less friends, and the writer of this, through an acquaintance of more 
 than twenty years, never heard one unkind word spoken or harsh 
 criticism uttered affecting the conduct or character of J. J. Worsham. 
 He died July, 1871, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. • 
 
 JOHN WENDLANDT, 
 
 Born at Pamparo, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany. He succeeded 
 in making money rapidly in Memphis, where he resided twenty-three 
 years, dying of yellow fever October, 1873. 
 
Biogi^aphical Sketches. 165 
 
 CAPT. ELISHA ELDRIDGE WRIGHT, 
 
 Born in Middle Tennessee, was the oldest son of" Judge Archibald 
 Wright, of IVIeniphis. He was graduated with the highest honors by 
 the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, and came to Mem- 
 phis to read law in his father's office. He was prosecuting this task 
 when war was inaugurated between the States. Not more than twenty 
 years of age, he was rapidly promoted as an artilleryman. He com- 
 manded a light battery at the battle of Murfreesboro, and in the 
 midst of dangers, such as men rarely survive, he won special distinc- 
 tion for coolness and a heroism pronounced by Gen. Breckenridge 
 "sublime." He fell at last, in the midst of death and carnage, on 
 this bloodiest spot, save one, that was made rich by the extinction of 
 heroes, through all the weary years of the ghastly inter-State Avar. 
 A braver youth, or one of more remarkable intellect, or purer morals, 
 never fell in the fore-front of battle than Eldridge Wright. He was 
 not only endowed with brilliant fancy, but was a natural logician, and 
 had he lived, would have shone among American statesmen, even as 
 he died, second in honor fairly won, to no hero of American song and 
 story. 
 
 LEWIS P. WILLIAMSON, 
 
 One of the first white inhabitants of Fayette county, Tennessee, went 
 thither from Northampton county, North Carolina, in 1827. He 
 became a rich cotton planter, and his home was famed for its tasteful 
 hospitality. He occupied a seat in the North Carolina, and afterward 
 in the Tennessee Legislature, and in the latter body was the author of 
 the bill incorporating the Memphis and LaGrange Railway, to which 
 Gen. E. P. Gaines gave paternity. He was twice or thrice nomi- 
 nated a candidate for Congress by district conventions, but such were 
 his personal private duties, and necessities, that he never became a 
 candidate. He pronounced agricultural addresses rarely surpassed in 
 any element of excellence. Graduated by Yale College, he was a 
 scholar, as nature and training had made him a gentleman. He died 
 as he had lived, with unwavering faith in the Christian's creed, and 
 one finds in Elmwood no spot which he can contemplate more 
 reverently than the last resting place of Lewis P. Williamson. He 
 was born April 23, 1801, and died October, 1865. 
 
1 66 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 SAM. P., MARSH, AND J. KNOX WALKER. 
 
 These three brothers were born and reared at Columbia, Tenn. Sam. 
 P. Walker was oldest of the three, and perhaps the wisest. His 
 native intellect was massive and strong, but he was devoid of ambi- 
 tion. There was no intellectual task which he might not have achieved. 
 He once served Shelby county in the Legislature, but never, we 
 believe, held any other public office. While this was true, it was also 
 true that Sam. P. Walker, through a long series of years, shaped to 
 a greater extent than perhaps any single citizen the political fortunes 
 of Memphis, of this county, and district. He died greatly beloved 
 for his generosity of conduct and 9pinions, at Bailey Spi'ings, in 
 November, 1872, aged fifty-six years. 
 
 J. Knox Walker was thoroughly trained in the best schools of the 
 country, and soon after his majority became the private secretary of 
 his uncle. President James K. Polk. Mr. Walker led a life of delight- 
 ful ease, indolence and gaiety at Washington. Just after President 
 Polk's death he became a banker in this city. In 1861 he was chosen 
 Colonel of a regiment organized in Memphis, which he led at the 
 bg.ttle of Belmont. His health was soon greatly impaired, and at the 
 close of his term of enlistment he withdrew from the service, and not 
 very long afterward died at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Pickett, 
 in this city. He was an admirable colloquist, of most fascinating 
 manners, and attractive, intellectual face. In 1856-7 he represented 
 the city and county in the State Senate, and was an influential mem- 
 ber of that body, even as he was an effective popular speaker. He 
 died in 18Go, aged forty-live. 
 
 L. Marsh Walker was a younger brother of J. Knox and Sam. 
 P. AValker. He was educated at West Point, but having wealth 
 resigned his commission in the Federal army, was married, and made 
 Memphis his home. When inter-State war was inaugurated he Avas 
 made a Brigadier-General, and assigned to command in the Confed- 
 erate army of Tennessee, with which he remained until the Kentucky 
 campaign was executed by General Bragg, when General Walker was 
 transferred to Arkansas. Here he served most creditably, leading 
 his command in several conflicts, was rising rapidly in the estimation 
 of the army, became involved in a quarrel with General M.irmaduke, 
 a duel resulted, and Walker fell. At the time of his death he was 
 not more than thirty years of age, and there was not in the South, 
 
Biographical Sketches. i6'j 
 
 if the brightness of one's fortunes may he measured hy the gloom 
 begotten by his death, a gentleman more highly esteemed or more 
 ■deserving of honor. 
 
 James, a youthful son of Col. Sam. P. Walker, and brother of the 
 INIemphis Chancellor, was wounded fatally at the battle of Belmont, 
 November 7th, 18G1, and interred in Elm wood a few days later. 
 
 JOHN WILDBERGER, 
 
 A Switzer by birth, came to Memphis when he was quite young, 
 thirty-five years ago. A clothier, he made money very rapidly. The 
 Swiss cottage on Shelby street was born of the taste and childhood 
 memories of John Wildberger. He retired from business and became 
 a farmer in 1852, and created for himself a charming home in the 
 vicinity of Horn Lake. His country residence was the scene of bound- 
 less hospitality, and his guests were the most intelligent and agreeable 
 men and women of Memphis. He died in 185-, in the very prime of 
 his manhood. 
 
 DR. J. JOS. WILLIAMS, 
 
 Who died of yellow fever in the fall of 1873, Avas a leading physician 
 of Memphis. Perhaps no member of the profession in this city ever 
 controlled a more extensive or lucrative practice. He was a professor 
 and able lecturer in the Memphis Medical College, and as admirable 
 for his personal virtues as professional skill and attainments. He was 
 born in Fayette county, Tennessee, and died about forty-five years of 
 age. His death was deeply deplored, not only by those he served 
 professionally, but by the whole people of the city and county. 
 
 MRS. DOROTHEA S. WINSTON, 
 
 Was the oldest child of the second marriage of the patriot orator and 
 statesman, Patrick Henry, of Viiginia. Having illustrated at the 
 fireside, through a long and useful life, the virtues made admirable in 
 the private and public career of her father, she died in Memphis, in 
 1854, in the seventy-eighth year of her age, and is entombed in the 
 
1 68 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 Fowlsr section, lot 10. She was born in Hanover county, Virginia. 
 A modest little tombstone designates her last resting place. It may 
 not be improper to say that we were impelled to give this brief sketch 
 of Mrs. Winston, because of her great age and distinguished lineage. 
 In personal worth, she was in nowise superior to Mrs. Sarah Rembert,^ 
 Mrs. Nat. Anderson, Mrs. Dr. Nat. Ragland, Mrs. Dr. Dudley Dunn, 
 or Mrs. Geo. L. Holmes, and thousands like them, who repose in Elm- 
 wood. Of each of them, such is the modest domesticity of women's 
 lives, and so devoid of those vicissitudes of fortune that distinguish 
 the history of men, we could only have written the same simple story 
 in much the same words which tell of the life and death of Mrs. 
 "Winston. None can complain, therefore, of omissions, when all alike 
 are unnamed, and least of all, can they who prepared these pages for 
 publication, be condemned for the course they have been forced, 
 because of contracted space, to pursue. 
 
 DR. E. F. WATKINS, 
 
 A Virginian by birth, and educated at William and Mary College, 
 and afterward was graduated by the Philadelphia Medical University. 
 In 1835 he became a citizen of Columbus, Mississippi, practicing his 
 profession most successfully till 1840, when he came to Memphis. His 
 health was grievously impaired in 1855, and he sought restoration in 
 pine forests along the seashore of southern Mississippi. He was relieved 
 of pulmonary disease, but softening of the brain supervened, and he- 
 died February, 1858, in the forty-seventh year of his age. 
 
 E. M. YERGER 
 
 Was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, his family having migrated 
 thither, we believe, from Pennsylvania. He had several brothers, all 
 lawyers, and all distinguished in the profession. Four of the six that 
 we knew, won great eminence. Edwin M. Yerger, when very young, 
 was a soldier, with J. H. McMahon, in the Florida war. He came to- 
 the bar before his majority, and while yet a very young man, was 
 deemed by many the peer of Jarnagin, Coe, Barry, and others then 
 pre-eminent in Memphis. He practiced his profession with great assi- 
 duity, and was its master without toil, even as he was a logician, 
 without seeming mental effort or training. He spoke with wonderful 
 
Biographical Sketches. 169 
 
 volubility, and when needful, with a vigor of thought and force of 
 reasoning that silenced opposition. He was the impersonation of 
 graceful, easy, imperturbable self-possession. He was never surprised, 
 and never wanting when a felicitous retort was required at his hands. 
 He had studied men as successfully as he had explored the fundamen- 
 tal principles of his profession, and all in all, was perhaps the greatest 
 lawyer of his time in Memphis. He made money rapidly, and spent 
 it as lavishly, and therefore died poor. He gave to all who asked, and 
 never asked re-payment. Generous, amiable, kindly in all his instincts 
 and impulses, there was never a citizen of Memphis more beloved by 
 his associates, of whom John F. Sale was chief, than Edwin M. Yerger. 
 In 185 — , Mr. Yerger was the whig candidate for Congress in the 
 Memphis District, against Frederick P. Stanton. The discussions at 
 the hustings between these two were distinguished for their attract- 
 iveness, ability and gentlemanly conduct of the two men. Yerger 
 was beaten by one vote, and was content, without a contest, to remain 
 at home. He devoted himself, with renewed ardor after this event, 
 to the practice of his profession, in which he continued to toil till his 
 elevation to the bench. He served as Chancellor with great ability, 
 and died in this office, March, 1871, in the fifty-second year of his age. 
 
 JOHN DUTTLINGER,* 
 
 Born February 4th, 1824, in Baden, Germany, became a citizen of 
 Memphis in 1850. He was a prosperous tradesman, and deemed an 
 honest, intelligent, public-spirited citizen, thoroughly devoted to the 
 public weal. He died September 28th, 1873. 
 
 ■■ This notice was inadvertently omitted in the proper alphabetical place. 
 
170 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 I5ORTUARY STATISTICS OF MEMPHIS. 
 
 The Popular Science Monthly reproduces tables of mortality prepared 
 by Dr. C. P. Russell, for 1872 From these we learn that the highest 
 death-rate in any American city was exhibited by Memphis, where 
 the rate was 46. G per thousand inhab.tants ; Savannah, oJ. 2 ; Vicks- 
 burg, 36.5; Troy, 34; Hoboken, 32.9; New York, 32.7; Newark, 
 31.6 ; New Orleans, 30.6 ; Boston, 30.5. The rate for Philadelphia 
 was only 26.1; Brooklyn, 28.1; St. Louis, 20.1; Chicago, 27.6; 
 Baltimore, 25. 1 ; Cincinnati, 20.5; Sau Francisco, 17.2. This com- 
 pares not unfavorably with the mortuary statistics of British cities, 
 where the lowest rate was 21.4; that of London, Bombay and Cal- 
 cutta show only 29.2 and 25, respectively. The highest known death- 
 I'ate prevailed in Valparaiso, Chili, 66.9. 
 
 This statement having been published in almost every American 
 newspaper, it results that facts affecting the healthfulness of Memphis 
 ai*e everywhere grossly misconceived. The corporate limits of Mem- 
 phis occupy a sjjace of three square miles, and Federal census tables, 
 constructed in 1870, give this territory a population of but little more 
 than 40,000. At the time the census was taken, Northern politicians 
 were very unwilling to augment the basis of congressional representa- 
 tion in the so-called rebel States, and, as every intelligent citizen has 
 long since learned, the number of people in Southern communities 
 was made the least possible. Very many families and many houses 
 were never visited by the census-taker, and the names of many old 
 citizens of Memphis do not appear in the returns. Moreover, such is 
 the peculiar character of Memphis commercial activity, based solely 
 on cotton, that i:)erfect idleness obtains in summer, and great numbers 
 leave Memphis in the hot months, when this census was taken. It 
 resulted from these facts, that the Federal census tables of 1870 fail 
 to give Memphis a proper number of inhabitants. Very certainly 
 there were not less than 55,000 people in the city projjer, to which the 
 census-taker was restricted. 
 
 While the number of people in the city was thus lessened in census 
 returns, it happened that there was in 1S72, when the table above 
 quoted was made, no Board of Health, and no statistics of mortality 
 were gathered or published by any authorized agency. The figures 
 and supposed facts given by the Popular Science 3Ionth.li/ were taken 
 
Morhiai'y Statistics. 171 
 
 from the books of sextons, cemeteries, and of hospitals. There were 
 no other possible sources of inf )rmation. It followed, since Memphis 
 cemeteries receive the dead of one-third of the county outside the 
 city's confines, and great numbers of bodies from the lowlands of 
 Arkansas, and many from the State of Mississippi, only twelve miles 
 distant, the Mississippi river separating Memphis from Arkansas, and 
 since very many, perhaps a majority of those that die between Cairo 
 and New Orleans on the "inland sea" are buried on the bights on 
 which Memphis stands, and since all these were supposed by the con- 
 structor of tables in 1\\q Poindar Science Monthly to have died in 
 Memphis, we are not amazed that Memjjhis is pronounced the " j^lague- 
 spot " of the continent. 
 
 Never did a statistician commit such an egregious blunder. In the 
 absence of a Board of Health, errors were unavoidable. The census- 
 taker of 1870 confined himself, in mid-summer, to the city's limits, 
 and discharged his task most inefficiently ; while this hygienic statis- 
 tician sought information among grave-diggers and at hospitals, whose 
 reports had reference to populations numbering not less than 80,000, 
 instead of 40,000. Hence the alarming percentage of deaths in 1872 
 commented on by the ropular Science Monthly. 
 
 THE FIGURES. 
 
 From the 1st of March, 1872, to March 1, 1873, the beginning and 
 end of the fiscal year of the Cemetery, there were 980 burials in 
 Elmwood. This being the only Protestant Cemetery now in use in 
 Memphis, fully one-half of the interments are made within its limits. 
 Add 980, the supposed, but in excess of the real number of burials 
 in all other local cemeteries, and it is shown that there were 1960 
 burials during the year in the city's cemeteries. Besides Memphis, 
 with 55,000 inhabitants, one-third of the County of Shelby outside 
 the city, the adjacent counties of Mississippi, the lowlands of Arkansas 
 across the river, and migratory raultitules drifting uj)on the river 
 itself, send their dead, as do levee builders and railway managers, for 
 interment to the bights on which Memphis stands. In 1872 there 
 were 442 interments made from the City Hospital. Half of these 
 were Europeans, and more than one-third negroes; but all are charged 
 to Memphis in this bill of mortality which appears in the Popular 
 Science Monthly. Since all these dead people, by a gross error, are 
 deemed citizens of Memphis, we are not amazed that this is asserted 
 to be the deadliest spot on the continent. 
 
1/2 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 Palpably enough, populations numbering not less than 80,000, 
 instead of 40,000, bring tlieir dead to Mempliis, and these unques- 
 tionable facts reduce the rate of mortality, as given in the tables of 
 the Popular Science Monthly, nearly one-half, or 24^ to 1000. 
 
 Negroes are eminently gregarious, and addicted to town and city 
 life. They have a negropolis of crowded cabins in the suburbs. Its 
 population varies from 12,000 to 15,000, and often, weekly mortality 
 reports, as now regularly published, show that half the deaths in- 
 Memphis are of negroes. It is commonly estimated that not less than 
 one-third of the whole number of deaths in the city are of negroes, 
 constituting less than one-fourth of the city's whole population. This 
 fact only shows how negroes live and die, and how it happens that the 
 healthfulness of Memphis is wrongfully denied. 
 
 The Mississippi and its branches, navigable for 12,000 miles, is a 
 great highway of States and cities. Memphis is in the very midst of 
 these, aud here migratory populations rest in fall months, when going 
 south, and in spring when returning north. The city's death-rate is 
 augmented very greatly by invalids on their way to or from Florida 
 or Southern Texas, or the Hot Springs of Arkansas. Memphis is the 
 chosen resting-place of strangers traversing these States. 
 
 In l<S7o sraall-pox came, and soon, in grim, ghastly procession, 
 cholera aud yellow fever, with slow, measured tread, followed closely 
 in its foul footsteps. They came as infections or contagions, and were 
 not indigenous to the spot. The day and hour of the advent of each 
 plague is known, and the steamer that inducted each. Cholera came 
 from New Orleans and yellow fever from Shreveport, and it is only 
 unfortunate for Memphis that these unprecedented calamities, which 
 may never recur, give a share of credibility to the extraordinary table 
 published by the Popular Science Monthly. 
 
 But there is a mighty city burying its dead in Memphis cemeteries,, 
 that moves forever on the great rivers of this valley. Census-takers 
 have never invaded its marts, and sextons and undertakers and hospitals 
 gathered for it no statistics of mortality to stagger the credulity of 
 mankind. On this mighty drifting emporium there are no coffins 
 constructed ; of its mortality, statisticians furnish no records. From 
 countless steamers between St. Louis and New Orleans, the dead are 
 gathered and deposited in the charming cemeteries of this uplifted 
 city. Mortuary tables before given would make the world believe 
 that all these people- lived and died here, and that grim death, robed 
 
Mortuary Statistics. i 'ji 
 
 in ghastly malaria, stalked in (li-uiikeu revelry along the highways of 
 Memphis forever. As Indians and white men are buried in the low- 
 lands on the summits of mounds constructed by an unknown race, so 
 the mighty wandering multitudes of the Mississippi river find on the 
 summit of the Chickasaw Bluffs — thehightsou which Memphis stands 
 — and in rose-embowered cemeteries, a final resting-place. 
 
 There is surely no reason iu climatic or local facts why the death- 
 rate of Memphis should exceed 20.1 per thousand, that of St. Louis ; 
 and if tables were properly and truthfully prepared, the two cities 
 -would be found to share very nearly the same hygienic fortunes. 
 
 If any still question the healthfulness of Memphis, save wdien some 
 •dismal plague has wrapped about the woe-stricken city a funeral pall, 
 let them attend a convocation of the Old Folks Association. A long 
 ■catalogue of members, each twenty years a citizen of Memphis, and 
 some for half a century, tells of longevity as commonplace. The 
 patriarch of the Old Folks, Col. Charles D. McLean, nearly ninety 
 years of age, still moves actively about the city's sti'eets, and with 
 smiling fece greets each questioner as to his own and the city's health 
 Avith the habitual response, " the best in the world." At each 
 annual festival of these venerable people, hundreds join in the dance, 
 and joyous, harmless revelry, and gray locks that veil time-worn tem- 
 ples and corrugated brows are toyed with by the softest, most delight- 
 ful winds that sweep over this broad land. Why Memphis, on a lofty 
 jilateau, from eight to twenty miles wide, and extending eastwardly 
 half a hundred miles, between two parallel streams running from east 
 to west, and draining perfectly the rich and elevated plain — why 
 Memphis should be pronounced unhealthful, is not apparent in any 
 fact written on the face of the country, or in climatic laws, or in 
 properly compiled mortuary statistics. 
 
 ynZ 'V/OF^LD'P *jVIoF(TALITY JaBLE. 
 
 Assuming the population of the entire world to be 1,200,000,000, 
 which is 177,500,000 less than that given by the latest statistics, it is 
 ■estimated that of this number 30,000,000 die every year ; 2,625,000 
 die every month ; 82,192 die every day ; 3425 die every hour ; 60 
 «very minute ; 1 dies every second. 
 
The Confederate Dead in Elmwood. 
 
 Such are the charms of Elmwood that multitudes are gathered there 
 each Sunday, and tender sympathy leads many wandering footsteps to 
 the spot where Confederate soldiers rest. Here they lie in a broad 
 area, given by the proprietors of the Cemetery, with no marble head- 
 stones such as our Government uses in perpetuating the names of its 
 defenders. These soldiers fell in all the battles of the South, or their 
 lives went away from bodies racked with pain in hospitals, in which 
 good women of Memphis once ministered tenderly and tirelessly. 
 Mothers, wives, and daughters, until this generation lives no longer, 
 will annually visit Elmwood, that they may bedew Avith tears, and 
 deck with roses, the hallowed spot where rest the gallant dead. Men 
 of learning and eloquence sleep in Elmwood, and they whose ambition 
 States were pleased to gratify. ^Monumental stone points to the grass- 
 covered graves in which their ashes rejiose, and wonder and reverence, 
 with silent footsteps and bated breath, are wont to con over epitaphs 
 that recite the virtues of these illustrious of our race, on Avhom 
 fortune smiled and wealth lavished favors. They achieved the aims 
 of selfish and ennobling ambition ; but these poor soldiers, who gave 
 their lives, as they believed, for their country's emancipation, are 
 truer representatives of greatness and of unselfish patriotism. It is 
 eminently proper that these brave men should rest among the most 
 honored children of Tennessee, and of the South. The depth of 
 sorrow or honors lavished on the heroes of the recent Revolution cannot 
 yet be defined with any reference to the wisdom or justice of the 
 cause they originally espoused. 
 
 In this spot, whereon nature has lavished wealth, grace and beauty, 
 consecrated by the dust of illustrious churchmen, jurists, statesmen. 
 
The Confederate Dead. 175 
 
 and patriots ; here, in the bosom of a State in which these heroes lost 
 their lives, to honor and invest with supreme sovereign rights ; here, 
 these children of the South should repose, and here their peerless 
 virtues be commemorated. The time Avill come, when passions of the 
 hour have subsided, when every American will bend reverentially 
 before the majesty of sublime heroism illustrated in the lives and 
 deaths of these soldiers. 
 
 Gen. W. B. Bate, who pronounced in Elmwood perhaps the most 
 eloquent oration ever uttered in honor of the Confederate dead, said 
 that " Wisely, or unwisely, there were those whose sublimest aspira- 
 tion was that they might not survive the independence of the South. 
 This prayer was heard ; at least the pang of defeat was spared. They 
 fell before the banner they often followed to victory w-as furled ; 
 before the cause they espoused was crushed; before that freedom 
 sought was lost ; and whatever the woi'ld's final decree as to their 
 wisdom or worth, the South must rear monuments to their fame. 
 Theirs was courage without stain ; toil and danger incurred without 
 blemish ; integrity that knew no compromise ; and patriotism that 
 withheld no sacrifice." 
 
 AVE ARE FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN. 
 
 Standing among these soldiers' graves to-day, we listen to the ritual 
 of sorrow in which all great revolutions chaunt to human hearts their 
 deepest meanings. We learn, at last, that Avhether Northerners or 
 Southerners, Ave are felloAV-countrymen, in birth, in blood, in common 
 traditions ; that Ave share the same heroic aims, the same heroic inspi- 
 rations. We have been made fellow-countrymen, in a larger measure 
 of affection, by sufferings most heroically endured. A holier sanctity 
 breathed from heaven has been imparted to our civil and social 
 relations, and the strong fibres that, in former years, bound us to fathers, 
 brothers, sons, now bind us to the soil in Avhich their martyred dust 
 reposes. As never before. Northerners and Southerners, Avhen contem- 
 plating all these soldiers' graves, become fellow-countrymen, jealous 
 alike of the fame of each soldier engaged in the Avar between _the 
 
J 76 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 States. No '^< - uttered in derogation of tlie fame of either, 
 
 without deti honors properly awarded both. And thus it 
 
 happens that fro t 4Aii^ .. antic conflict, which dug these modest graves, 
 there spring j. rofound' r ivictions of American brotherhood. Well 
 may the living of th;.- . 1 future years, annually gather about this 
 consecrated spo; iind asser* their reverence for the virtues and admi- 
 ration, for the h( I msie* ui soldiers who rest in Elmwood, The hallowing 
 breath of God is in the wail of mourning which annually rises in 
 spring-tim'e, over thousands of graves, and from homes sadder than 
 graves, everywhere in the South. It recites in the litany of breaking 
 hearts, the fearful incidents of four years of carnage and anguish, and 
 this tribute to the fallen heroes of revolution, must be renewed forever. 
 Through all coming time we would bestrew these graves of soldiers, 
 with Cyprus and laurel, and keep their names and virtues forever 
 hallowed in our memories. 
 
 THE MONUIVIENT. 
 
 A stone base for a lofty pillar, has already been prepared, to desig- 
 nate the burial place of Confederate soldiers. The shaft, after a time, 
 will be fitted to its place, and annually, Avhen spring-time comes, 
 wreathed with roses and evergreens. 
 
 ADDENDUM. 
 
 The following ordinance was i)assed by the City Councils of Mem- 
 phis, May 4th, 1869 : 
 
 Be it ordained, etc., That the ordinance passed August 7th, 1860, 
 recorded in book 10, page No. 78, on the subject of interments within 
 the city limits, be amended as follows: That no graveyard or cemetery 
 for the burial of the dead shall be allowed witliin the corporate limits 
 of the city of Memphis, except those already established and in exist- 
 ence, Jno. 'W. Leftwicii, Mayor. 
 
 Attest : L. R. Richards, CJity Register. 
 
NAMES OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, 
 
 As far as ascertained^ buried in Eln^wood, who were Citizei^s of 
 HJemphis or viciijity. 
 
 There are, in addition to these, nearly a thousand Confederate sol- 
 diers buried in the Cemetery, who generally died in hospitals, and 
 were citizens of Arkansas and other States. 
 
 Anderson, Gen. J. Patton 
 Armstrong, John W. 
 Alford, J. L. 
 Adams, W. S. 
 Ammen, D. C. 
 Apperson, John W. 
 Allin, Maj. Phil T. 
 Andrews, W. N. 
 
 Bayliss, William H. 
 Bryant, William C. 
 Beecher, Maj. E. A. 
 Bass, S. H. 
 Burnett, George W. 
 Black, H. W. 
 Beaumont, G, T. 
 Ball, John H. 
 
 Carroll, Gen. Wm. H. 
 Cochran, Francis T. 
 Collins, Col. Nathaniel D. 
 Certon, William 
 Culpepper, Capt. J. H. 
 Cox, Robert B. 
 Cole, John B. 
 Clark, James R. 
 Cage, John T. 
 12 
 
 Dupuy, S. P. 
 Doyle, Decatur J. 
 Driver, Maj. Wm. T. 
 
 Eanes, John 
 Elliott, Lee H. 
 Eubank, R. P. 
 
 Freeman, Surgeon Robert J. 
 Fowlkes, Capt. S. 
 Ferguson, Lieut. W. B. 
 Forrest, Maj. Jeffrey 
 Flornoy, Hall 
 Flornoy, Willie 
 Falls, George 
 
 Gunn, C. H. 
 Grice, James H. 
 Green, Capt. H. Dixon 
 
 Hall, W. A. 
 Hamilton, Capt. J. 
 Hunt, Col. Wm. R. 
 Hart, Col. Robert 
 Hamlin, Edward L. 
 Harris, Ed. 
 
 Hartsfield, William G. 
 Henry, Maj. John F. 
 
178 
 
 Elnvwood Cemetery. 
 
 Harris, John W. 
 
 Hyatt, Charles 
 Horue, E. W. 
 Hutchinson, Capt. B, B. 
 
 Johnson, J. R. M. 
 
 King, Morris 
 Kehoe, Capt. Wm. 
 Kelly, John H. 
 
 Leath, Maj. Peter M. 
 Lundy, Capt. E. C. 
 
 McDonald, Maj. Charles 
 Mellon, Alf. M. 
 Moon, Robert A. 
 Morrison, Jacob 
 May, Capt. Charles 
 Monsarratt, Maj. George H. 
 Miller, William 
 McCullough, Hugh 
 
 Nash, Abner 
 
 Owen, Augustus 
 
 Piper, William A. 
 Pitman, Warren 
 Pattison, Capt. Thomas F. 
 Palmer, Edward G. 
 Peace, Col. Wm. 
 Pattison, Oliver G. 
 Patrick, Capt. Wm. 
 Pattison, Robert T. 
 Porter, Capt. Edward 
 Pinson, Col. R. A. 
 Patterson, Wm. S. 
 Pope, Lieut. Wm. S. 
 
 B. 
 
 Richardson, Gen. R. V. 
 Ross, Col. W. B. 
 Rogers, Vol. P. 
 Rhodes, M. 
 Rowe, E. A. 
 
 Smith, Gen. Preston 
 Seabrook, John T. 
 Shields, Lieut. W. S. 
 Stewart, Darwin 
 Steiner, Lieut. J. P. 
 Sledge, Washington 
 Spicer, James W. 
 Stockton, George M. 
 
 Titus, James T. 
 Titus, John F. 
 Trezevant, Maj. Ed. 
 Townsend, George 
 Talbot, John R. 
 Taylor, Gen. James H. 
 Taylor, A. H. 
 Taylor, William V. 
 Timberlake, William H. 
 Trezevant, Lieut. Louis Cruger 
 
 TJhls, Capt. John 
 AValker, Gen. Marsh 
 Walker, Col. J. Knox 
 Wright, E. p:idridge 
 Whitfield, Lieut. Edwin 
 Ward, C. C. 
 Wheaton, W. N. 
 Williams, Dr. J. 
 Wills, Wm. A. 
 Walker, James 
 Woodard, Henry P. 
 White, Andrew J. 
 Wade, Henry 
 
 R. 
 
 Joseph 
 
 Federal Soldiers buried in Elmwood. 
 
 The following named are the United States soldiers buried in Elm- 
 wood — the list as full as we could make it : 
 
 Atlee, Lieut. S. J. 
 Fox, J. D. 
 Hudson, Capt. H. E. 
 Hunter, Judge Wm. 
 
 Hyde, Capt. Mason 
 McDonald, Col. Charles 
 Sterling, Surgeon A. 
 Waldran, Judge George W. 
 
List of Proprietors of Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 Note. — The letters in the sectiok column will be read thus: C. H., Chapel 
 Hill ; T., Turley ; S. G., South Grove ; F., Fowler ; C. H. C, Chapel Hill 
 Circle ; L. C, Lenow Circle. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Aakin, Mrs. J, E 745 
 
 Abercrombie, Dr. C, S, and Cogswell 67, 68 
 
 Abies, Joseph 61 
 
 Adams, Colin ,340 
 
 Afflick, Wm. H 294 
 
 Aiuslie, John 142 
 
 Aikin, M 571 
 
 Allen, Thos. H 86 
 
 Allen, AV. V 554, 555 
 
 Allen, M. A , and C. C. Bayliss 175 
 
 Allen, J. D '. 270 
 
 Allen, W. L 303 
 
 Allen, J. H 806 
 
 Allen, Kobert 573 
 
 Allen, Charles 162 
 
 Alley, Joseph W 548 
 
 Alexander, Hughes and Ridler 169 
 
 Alexander, J. M 271 
 
 Alexander, James C 585 
 
 Allin, Mrs. Halle 65 
 
 Aldrich, D 217 
 
 Amonett, James J 139 
 
 Ammon, Eob't S. and M. W. Alexander... 529 
 
 Amis, Catherine 66 
 
 Anderson, W. C 207 
 
 XO. FT. 
 
 8EC. 
 
 124 
 
 C.H. 
 
 576 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 72 
 
 C.H. 
 
 148 
 
 T. 
 
 161 
 
 T. 
 
 148 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1182 
 
 C.H. 
 
 283 
 
 C.H. 
 
 378 
 
 C.H. 
 
 136 
 
 T. 
 
 131 
 
 T. 
 
 147 
 
 T. 
 
 192 
 
 F. 
 
 260 
 
 F. 
 
 138 
 
 C.H. 
 
 306 
 
 C.H. 
 
 168 
 
 C.H. 
 
 420 
 
 T. 
 
 450 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 263 
 
 T. 
 
 163 
 
 T. 
 
 204 
 
 F. 
 
 357 
 
 L.C. 
 
 288 
 
 C.H. 
 
i8o 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 KAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Anderson, J. A., and M. E. Fagg 12, 15 
 
 Anderson, James W G24 
 
 Anderson, James H 209 
 
 Anderson, J. Patton, and Robert Scott... 516 
 
 Anderson, Theodore 656 
 
 Antwine, Wm 18 
 
 Andrews, Wm. H 506 
 
 Angus, Edward E 555 
 
 Apperson, E. M 7 
 
 App, M 611 
 
 Arlt, F. W 318 
 
 Armstrong, M. A 480^ 
 
 Armstrong, J. Welby 598 
 
 Armstrong, Robert E 207 
 
 Armour, J. D 6 
 
 Armour, James 422 
 
 Arnold, George 276 
 
 Arnold, George 372 
 
 Ashe, S. M 35 
 
 Ashbrook, Clarence P 60^ 
 
 Atkinson, Q. C 299^ 
 
 Auer, J. C, F. C. Heckle 637 
 
 Avery, Wm. T 39 
 
 Avery, James W 586 
 
 Aydlett, T. P., and C. C. Cleaves 49 
 
 Ayres, Treadwell S 15 
 
 Ayres, Samuel W 376 
 
 Armstrong, Barney L 64^ 
 
 Allen, Charles S 510^ 
 
 Anderson, Butler P 577 
 
 Anderson, J. Patton, and Scott, Mrs. R... 469 
 
 Ashcraft, John 76 
 
 Athy, Philip R 190 
 
 Anderson, Venn & Co 173 
 
 Atlee, Mrs. Elvira V 654 
 
 Babb, Benjamin 48, 72 
 
 Backus, Mrs. Minnie 62 
 
 Bacon, Thomas 618 
 
 Bailey, Sylvester 57 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 667 
 
 S.G. 
 
 780 
 
 C.H. 
 
 144 
 
 S.G. 
 
 270 
 
 C.H. 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 150 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 127 
 
 F. 
 
 840 
 
 T. 
 
 360 
 
 C.H. 
 
 130 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1764 
 
 C.H. 
 
 117 
 
 C.H. 
 
 263 
 
 T. 
 
 538 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 136 
 
 T. 
 
 198 
 
 C.H. 
 
 190 
 
 S.G. 
 
 250 
 
 F. 
 
 1596 
 
 C.H. 
 
 646 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1184 
 
 C.H. 
 
 266 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1008 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 600 
 
 C.H. 
 
 483 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 225 
 
 F. 
 
 380 
 
 C.H. 
 
 457 
 
 F. 
 
 270 
 
 S.G. 
 
 208 
 
 S.G. 
 
 444 
 
 F. 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 500 
 
 S.G. 
 
 220 
 
 C.H. 
 
 495 
 
 T. 
 
 567 
 
 T. 
 
List of Proprietors. 181 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. XO. LOT. 
 
 Bailey, Wm 256 
 
 Baird, Abner 282 
 
 Boke, J, and F. Mahler 499 
 
 Ball, B. F 121 
 
 Banks, Mrs. Mary 100 
 
 Banks, James 586 
 
 Banks, Jeremiah 587 
 
 Bankhead, Smith? 67 
 
 Banksraith, Frank 556 
 
 Barnes, B. B., and Wm. Proudfit 596 
 
 Barnett, J. J 204 
 
 Barnett and Walker 216 
 
 Barr, K 106 
 
 Bardsley, Wm. C 70 
 
 Bason, Richard 209 
 
 Baxter, Fred 25 
 
 Baxter, G. W., and D. W. Monroe 98 n ^- 
 
 Baum, Elenora 191 
 
 Bataille, Elisy 764 
 
 Bayliss, C. C. , and M. A. Allen 175 
 
 Bayliss, W. Bronson 327, 334 
 
 Beamish, Francis 230 
 
 Beasley, Wm. H, and Wm. A. Radford... 486 
 
 Beasley, J. E., and D. R. Cook 112, 113 
 
 Beaumont, S. B 55 
 
 Becktel, Eliza Jane 203 
 
 Beard, T. L., and E. H. Word 4 
 
 Bechtold, Jacob 319 
 
 Bedford, B. W., Sr 360 
 
 Bedford, J. and B. W., Jr 361 
 
 Beecher, Ed. A 326,335 
 
 Benham, Hiram 398 
 
 Benson, E. A 196 
 
 Benjes, Wm 141 
 
 Benham, J. H 545 
 
 Bennett, DeGray , Wm. and Lou 530 
 
 Bennett, Lucinda • 113 
 
 Berkle, Jacob 9 n pt 
 
 Bernard, H 343 
 
 Bernard, H 317 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 8EC. 
 
 247 
 
 C.H. 
 
 131 
 
 T. 
 
 402 
 
 C.H. 
 
 300 
 
 T. 
 
 918 
 
 T. 
 
 480 
 
 T. 
 
 400 
 
 T. 
 
 183 
 
 C.H. 
 
 149 
 
 F. 
 
 152 
 
 C.H. 
 
 120 
 
 T. 
 
 1160 
 
 C.H. 
 
 225 
 
 C.H. 
 
 232 
 
 F. 
 
 275 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1175 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1311 
 
 F. 
 
 316 
 
 F. 
 
 128 
 
 C.H. 
 
 378 
 
 C.H. 
 
 364 
 
 T. 
 
 270 
 
 T. 
 
 140 
 
 F. 
 
 1129 
 
 L.C. 
 
 378 
 
 F. 
 
 324 
 
 F. 
 
 472 
 
 S.G. 
 
 154 
 
 C.H. 
 
 550 
 
 C.H. 
 
 702 
 
 C.H. 
 
 381 
 
 T. 
 
 140 
 
 C.H. 
 
 205 
 
 C.H. 
 
 247 
 
 T. 
 
 124 
 
 C.H. 
 
 125 
 
 T. 
 
 96 
 
 Col'd 
 
 300 
 
 C.H. 
 
 80 
 
 T. 
 
 90 
 
 T. 
 
I«2 
 
 Elmwood Cejnetery, 
 
 NAMES OP PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Benton, Sarah 546 
 
 Bender, Wm 212 
 
 Berry, Leander 512 
 
 Berton, Auguste 575 
 
 Bethell, P. C 149 
 
 Bethell, P. C 150 
 
 Berry, R. B 93 
 
 Bingham, AVm. H 382 
 
 Bigelow, Alice 59i- 
 
 Bill, Nelson A., and K Shelby 270 
 
 Bill, Charles C 271 
 
 Bingham, F. G 168 
 
 Blessing, J. W 189^ 
 
 Blair, D. B 275 
 
 Blanz, Gustavus 501 
 
 Bledsoe, Isaac 509 
 
 Blythe, AV. A., Estate of 636 
 
 Black, Robert, Heirs of. 465 
 
 Booth, Wm. A 23 
 
 Bogart, Daniel 98 
 
 Botts, Aaron 1 45 
 
 Bowles, Wm 221 
 
 Borner, Herman 342 
 
 Borner, Charles 343 
 
 Bourne, James T 351 
 
 Bowen, F. F 487 
 
 Bowles, Wm 130 
 
 Boyd, Alston M 266 
 
 Bond, L. D 19 
 
 Boisseau, D. E 607 
 
 Boiling, R. P 73 
 
 Boyd, Mrs. Susan 176 
 
 Bowling, B 421 
 
 Booker, Ferdinand and Albert 514, 515 
 
 Bowen, Alex 199 
 
 Boswell, John 224 
 
 Boomer, Martha A 133 
 
 Booth, Wm 238, 256 
 
 Bowan, Andrew G 68 
 
 Boswell, Thomas H 363 
 
 »ro. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 132 
 
 T. 
 
 438 
 
 F. 
 
 138 
 
 T. 
 
 224 
 
 F. 
 
 444 
 
 F. 
 
 480 
 
 F. 
 
 323 
 
 C.H. 
 
 99 
 
 C.H. 
 
 204 
 
 C.H. 
 
 365 
 
 F. 
 
 435 
 
 F. 
 
 287 
 
 C.H 
 
 120 
 
 C.H 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 108 
 
 T. 
 
 99 
 
 T. 
 
 242 
 
 C.H 
 
 301 
 
 T. 
 
 1188 
 
 C.H 
 
 255 
 
 C.H 
 
 262 
 
 C.H 
 
 200 
 
 C.H 
 
 132 
 
 C.H 
 
 111 
 
 C.H 
 
 306 
 
 C.H 
 
 262 
 
 C.H 
 
 222 
 
 T. 
 
 374 
 
 C.H 
 
 180 
 
 F. 
 
 171 
 
 C.H 
 
 264 
 
 T. 
 
 376 
 
 F. 
 
 268 
 
 C.H 
 
 524 
 
 C.H 
 
 312 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 T. 
 
 294 
 
 T. 
 
 286 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 120 
 
 T. 
 
List of Proprietors. 183 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Bond, M. E., and F. M. Cogswell 66, \ of 67 
 
 Boyle, W. F, W. W. McClelland, and 
 
 J. F. Sellers , 184 
 
 Bolton, Wade H. , Estate of 6U 
 
 Bowen, John H 669, 670 
 
 Bowles, Elvira W 63, 63i 
 
 Booth, John 514 
 
 Bowman, Jackson 104 
 
 Bock, Christian 456 
 
 Brinkley, Robert C 37 
 
 Brooke, George 79 
 
 Bryan, Dr. W. C 96 
 
 Brown, R. B 105 
 
 Brown, Joseph F 122 
 
 Brown, John and W. C, and T. Leonard.. 477 
 
 Brooks, M. J 11 
 
 Brown, W. P 209 
 
 Bryant, C. D 236 
 
 Brown, B. H 9 
 
 Brenish, Susan 13 
 
 Brackett, John J. , Heirs of. 383 
 
 Brust, Jacob 317 
 
 Bryan, S. L 401 
 
 Brown, John J 235 
 
 Bruce, W. S., Joseph, N. S., and L. C. 
 
 Mount 145 
 
 Brooks, Samuel 22 
 
 Bradford, Simon 433 
 
 Brown, W. N., and S. H. Todd 88 
 
 Bradley, Gen. T. H 305 
 
 Bradford, Mrs. W. C 262 
 
 Bryson, Pinkney H 752 
 
 Bryson, Pinkney H 753 
 
 Brown, Jesse F 36 
 
 Bridges, Wm. H 58^ 
 
 Braun, Jacob 259 
 
 Browne, John W. S 503 
 
 Brown, EliasH., and John Rapp 481 
 
 Brooks, John H 496 
 
 Brooks, Samuel H..,' 589 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 443 
 
 T. 
 
 736 
 
 F. 
 
 512 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 503 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1154 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 80 
 
 T. 
 
 108 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 180 
 
 T. 
 
 1178 
 
 C.H. 
 
 300 
 
 C.H. 
 
 234 
 
 C.H. 
 
 207 
 
 C.H. 
 
 216 
 
 C.H. 
 
 512 
 
 C.H. 
 
 196 
 
 F. 
 
 266 
 
 T. 
 
 191 
 
 C.H. 
 
 225 
 
 T. 
 
 208 
 
 T. 
 
 112 
 
 C.H. 
 
 196 
 
 C.H. 
 
 110 
 
 C.H. 
 
 231 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1080 
 
 F. 
 
 234 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 756 
 
 T. 
 
 242 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1274 
 
 T. 
 
 150 
 
 C.H. 
 
 138 
 
 C.H. 
 
 174 
 
 S.G. 
 
 31U 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 150 
 
 F. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 323 
 
 T. 
 
 123 
 
 T. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
184 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Brown, T, W 231 
 
 Bevens, Dr. Elam F 890 
 
 Bunce, E. P 140 
 
 Bulkley, H. D., and M. L. Bybee 551 
 
 Buehl, Henry 4 
 
 Buchanan, J. K., and C. K. Murrah ., 8 
 
 Buntyn, Geraldus 50 
 
 Buckingham, Henry G 67 
 
 Burr, A. A 54 
 
 Burk, C. C 546 
 
 Burch, B. W 444 
 
 Burton, Richard A 462 
 
 Burton, Cecilia 18 
 
 Busby, Jesse J 14 
 
 Busby, Wm. V., and K. Pollock, and S. 
 
 Whitten 748 
 
 Burkle, Carolina 371 
 
 Busch, Jacob 502 
 
 Burns, Lucinda, L. E., and David E 275 
 
 Burlison, Margaret Jennette 153 
 
 Butt, James L. D 482 
 
 Bullock, Sarah S 330 
 
 Brown, Benjamin C 47 
 
 Braxton, Rachel 109 
 
 Boone, George P 176 
 
 Bateman, Gorham A 579 
 
 Bettis, Fannie M 992 
 
 Bettis, Walter P 991 
 
 Barton, James F., Estate of 30 
 
 Bengert, John, and Christine Rembling... 698 
 
 Beasley, Thomas J 9 
 
 Carnes, James A 13 
 
 Carnes, James A 16 
 
 Caruthers, J. P 143 
 
 Carroll, Wm. H 215 
 
 Carr,Wm 419 
 
 Cannon, J. Q,., and Samuel 505 
 
 Cayce, M. C 104 
 
 Caldwell, E. W 37 
 
 N^O. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 410 
 
 F. 
 
 96 
 
 T. - 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 352 
 
 C.H, 
 
 274 
 
 F. 
 
 200 
 
 F. 
 
 1200 
 
 T. 
 
 775 
 
 C.H. a 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 221 
 
 C.H. 
 
 300 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 390 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 170 
 
 C.H. 
 
 391 
 
 T. 
 
 131 
 
 T. 
 
 264 
 
 F. 
 
 288 
 
 S.G, 
 
 93 
 
 F. 
 
 206 
 
 T. 
 
 264 
 
 S.G. 
 
 114 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 96 
 
 S.G. 
 
 567 
 
 T. 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 184 
 
 T. 
 
 676 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 154 
 
 C.H. 
 
 425 
 
 L.C. 
 
 1273 
 
 C.H, 
 
 288 
 
 C.H, 
 
 418 
 
 C.H. 
 
 325 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H, 
 
 264 
 
 F. 
 
 300 
 
 S.G, 
 
List of Proprietors. 
 
 185 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Caldwell, D., and G. F. Huls 147 
 
 Caldwell, Mrs. M. W 194 
 
 Camp, S.J 188 
 
 Cameron, James A 211 
 
 Campbell, R. N 491 
 
 Cavaline, Mrs. Eliza 215, 228 
 
 Carlisle, Mrs. L. H 229 
 
 Caldwell, E. W.,Sr 216 
 
 Cairnes, James G 313 
 
 Games, John and James 119 
 
 Campbell, Mary L 34 
 
 Casey, John W 493 
 
 Carnes, John and James 120 
 
 Church, Charles B 11 
 
 Charabliss, Thos 52 
 
 Chrisp, W. B 211 
 
 Chiles, H. B 1451 
 
 Cheek, John 1 45 
 
 Cheek, E 53 
 
 Cherry, C. W., Heirs of 291, 292 
 
 Christian, Dr 142 
 
 Childres, T. J 266 
 
 Chandler, W. L 135 
 
 Chase, Wm 572 
 
 Chambers, John W 382 
 
 Church, Robert 7 
 
 Chambless, Tucker 50 
 
 Church, Charles B 78 
 
 Chalmers, Vernon 110 
 
 Cleaves, Calvin C. , and T. P. Aydlett 49 
 
 Clarke, R. G 53 
 
 Clarke, E. E 50 
 
 Cliflford, H. B 192 
 
 Clements, W. J 443 
 
 Claridge, W. V 325 
 
 Claridge, John M 380 
 
 Clayton, John S 174 
 
 Clark, Wm. H 558 
 
 Clark, Carlos 488 
 
 Clay, Clement C 15 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 456 
 
 F. 
 
 230 
 
 C.H, 
 
 313 
 
 T. 
 
 263 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 511 
 
 T. 
 
 176 
 
 F. 
 
 284 
 
 F. 
 
 176 
 
 T. 
 
 114 
 
 Col'd, 
 
 376 
 
 L.C. 
 
 156 
 
 T. 
 
 238 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 1088 
 
 C.H. 
 
 712 
 
 C.H. 
 
 237 
 
 C.H. 
 
 210 
 
 C.H, 
 
 130 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 665 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 F. 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 260 
 
 F. 
 
 714 
 
 T. 
 
 105 
 
 T. 
 
 256 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 153 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 114 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 1008 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1152 
 
 C.H. 
 
 807 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 272 
 
 T. 
 
 212 
 
 C.H. 
 
 118 
 
 T. 
 
 88 
 
 T. 
 
 654 
 
 F. 
 
 125 
 
 T. 
 
 141 
 
 T. 
 
 410 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
1 86 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Clark, Wm, Estate of. 49 
 
 Cloth, Herman 223 
 
 Cloth, Herman 222^ 
 
 Collins, Dr. Charles 962 
 
 Cox, Wm 66 
 
 Cooper, George P 219 
 
 Copeland, Jasper 320 
 
 Colman, James 518 
 
 Cogswell, Mrs. A. M 387 
 
 Cockrell, S. W 97 
 
 Cordes, Charles and Adolphus 573 
 
 Copeland, F. M 52 
 
 Coleman, Walter 168 
 
 Coleman, Wm. W 115 
 
 Costen, S. T 173 
 
 Cooper, H. F 206 
 
 Corns, Mrs. J. W 268 
 
 Cobb, B. E 305 
 
 Cogswell, F. M., and M. C. Bond 66, \ of 67 
 
 Cockrell, D " 569 
 
 Coffee, Sallie R., M. E. and E. W. Tucker, .s \ of 23 
 
 Cooper, George 40 
 
 Cocke, Thos. H 39, 69 
 
 Cole, Edmund A 56 
 
 Colby, John D 448 
 
 Coe, L.H., Estate of. 51 
 
 Cockrell, D 91 
 
 Cocks, Annie C 291 
 
 Coe, L. H., and C. J. Phillips 46 
 
 Cockrell, Maggie... 569J 
 
 Cowan, Wm 494 
 
 Cook, Charles S 407 
 
 Coleman, Oscar F 463 
 
 Conrad, James F 197 
 
 Corwin, Elizabeth 210 
 
 Cochran, John W 18 
 
 Cochran, Marcus E 31 
 
 Cook, Mary 727 
 
 Corwine, John M..... 387 
 
 Cochran, Francis T., Estate of 46 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 250 
 
 S.G. 
 
 150 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 600 
 
 T. 
 
 182 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1035 
 
 C.H. 
 
 112 
 
 C.H. 
 
 283 
 
 C.H. 
 
 117 
 
 C.H. 
 
 264 
 
 F. 
 
 294 
 
 C.H. 
 
 202 
 
 T. 
 
 161 
 
 T. 
 
 180 
 
 T. 
 
 338 
 
 C.H. 
 
 195 
 
 T. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
 168 
 
 T. 
 
 443 
 
 T. 
 
 980 
 
 T. 
 
 600 
 
 F. 
 
 121 
 
 F. 
 
 1185 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 306 
 
 C. H.C. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 237 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 135 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 288 
 
 T. 
 
 600 
 
 C. H.C. 
 
 336 
 
 T. 
 
 126 
 
 T. 
 
 122 
 
 C.H. 
 
 408 
 
 C.H. 
 
 96 
 
 S.G. 
 
 144 
 
 S.G. 
 
 325 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 790 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 138 
 
 C.H. 
 
 180 
 
 T. 
 
 575 
 
 S.G. 
 
List of Proprietors. 187 
 
 NAMES OF PKOPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Coleman, Benjamin 581 
 
 Cook, D. R., and J. E. Beasley 112, 113 
 
 Craft, J. H 48 
 
 Creighton, K M 112 
 
 Croflbrd, J. T 146, 149 
 
 Crockett, David 490 
 
 Crane, Wm 504 
 
 Crenshaw, J. W 10 
 
 Crenshaw, Thomas C 13 
 
 Creighton, Henry 52 
 
 Crosson, Marion 374 
 
 Cracraft, Dr. D. J. C 324 
 
 Crosby, George 206 
 
 Crockett, Mary B 232 
 
 Crook, G. W. L., and Goodyear 8 
 
 Crockett, George D 44 
 
 Crego, Dr. A. T 186 
 
 Crawford, E. A 144 
 
 Crisman,Wm. B 188^ 
 
 Craft, Henry 31, 32^ 
 
 Cubbins, Thomas 99 
 
 Curtis, S. B 156 
 
 Currin, D. M 301, 302 
 
 Cummings, J, Y 171 
 
 Currie, Mary P 502 
 
 Cubbins, John 36 
 
 Collins, Dr. Charles 337 
 
 Clayton, Mrs. J. S., and Duke, Mrs. G.W. 66^ 
 
 Craig, Richard G 388 
 
 Clarke, Thomas H 683 
 
 Counell, Hiram D., Estate of 593 
 
 Crowell, William J 238 
 
 Crone, Matilda 378 
 
 Church Home 417 
 
 Coffey, Thomas B., and Ward, Miss Jane.. 389 
 
 Carroll, Mrs. Eliza B 10 
 
 Dashiel, George 158 
 
 Dale, E. W 223 
 
 Daniels, J. B 247 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 294 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1129 
 
 L.C. 
 
 300 
 
 C.H. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 403 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 150 
 
 F. 
 
 400 
 
 F. 
 
 170 
 
 F. 
 
 260 
 
 C.H. 
 
 117 
 
 T. 
 
 234 
 
 F. 
 
 346 
 
 F. 
 
 640 
 
 C. H.C, 
 
 253 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 144 
 
 S.G. 
 
 218 
 
 T. 
 
 382 
 
 F. 
 
 728 
 
 L.C. 
 
 306 
 
 C.H. 
 
 277 
 
 C.H. 
 
 382 
 
 C.H. 
 
 693 
 
 F. 
 
 88 
 
 F. 
 
 493 
 
 T. 
 
 98 
 
 C.H. 
 
 593 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 321 
 
 T. 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 351 
 
 T. 
 
 203 
 
 C.H. 
 
 154 
 
 T. 
 
 350 
 
 T. 
 
 235 
 
 T. 
 
 425 
 
 L.C. 
 
 286 
 
 C.H. 
 
 285 
 
 C.H. 
 
 272 
 
 C.H. 
 
1 88 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OP PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Davis, Charles B 381 
 
 Davis, J. H 441 
 
 Davis, John 478 
 
 Davidson, T. P 1 
 
 Danbury, J. D 145^ 
 
 Dawson, Thomas, and P. Holt 189 
 
 Davis, John 188 
 
 Davidson, S. M 597 
 
 Dalrymple, C. L 309 
 
 Davids, Samuel 59 
 
 Dashiell, Mrs. M 685 
 
 Dalton, Rufus L 281 
 
 Davis, Henry C 662 
 
 Davis, James C sw^349 
 
 Dayton, Mary Ann 767 
 
 Davis, Ann W - 375| 
 
 Davidson, Wm 167 
 
 Davie, Elizabeth H n \ 278 
 
 Driver, E. M., Estate of. ......42, 43, 72, 73 
 
 Denie', John A 30 
 
 Deloach, Josiah 423 
 
 Dent, H. G 10 
 
 Devlin, C. J. C 521 
 
 Denie, John A 179 
 
 Deloach, C 595, 608 
 
 Denton, J. L 604 
 
 Dennis, A. G 62 
 
 Dennis, W 63 
 
 Devin, Mrs. Mary 341 
 
 Dearing, John 308 
 
 Deadrick, Wm. W 591 
 
 Deitrick, Wm. A 484 
 
 Dickson, Robert 389 
 
 Dixon, L. M 3,33 
 
 Dill, Mrs. A. C 118 
 
 Dixon, George 25 
 
 Dill, Wm. E 576 
 
 Dixon, Leonidas V 156 
 
 Dillard, Henry M 89 
 
 Diggs, Busher 73 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 1.50 
 
 C.H. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 256 
 
 S.G. 
 
 342 
 
 F. 
 
 163 
 
 C.H. 
 
 130 
 
 T. 
 
 123 
 
 C.H. 
 
 202 
 
 C.H. 
 
 352 
 
 T. 
 
 440 
 
 C.H. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 486 
 
 C.H. 
 
 600 
 
 C.H. 
 
 117 
 
 C.H. 
 
 500 
 
 C.H. 
 
 200 
 
 T. 
 
 1781 
 
 F. 
 
 1407 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 460 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 248 
 
 T. 
 
 165 
 
 C.H. 
 
 464 
 
 C.H. 
 
 633 
 
 C.H. 
 
 162 
 
 C.H. 
 
 255 
 
 T. 
 
 228 
 
 T. 
 
 95 
 
 T. 
 
 175 
 
 T. 
 
 105 
 
 C.H. 
 
 93 
 
 F. 
 
 120 
 
 C.H. 
 
 144 
 
 C.H. 
 
 624 
 
 T. 
 
 404 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 240 
 
 F. 
 
 288 
 
 S.G. 
 
 509 
 
 T. 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
List of Proprietors. 1 89 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Doyle, W. J. P 347 
 
 Donoho, AVm. B 535 
 
 Donaldson, A. J 92, 93, 94 
 
 Dougherty, J. C, and A. Street 123, 124, 125 
 
 Dollis, H. C 77 
 
 Donnelly, Thomas 177 
 
 Donaldson, Wm 316, 344 
 
 Doraugh, James 216 
 
 Dowdy, Joseph F 73 
 
 Dorion, Charles H 75 
 
 Douglas, Addison H 434 
 
 Dowdy, Joseph F 71 
 
 Drew, J. O. and A. W 15 
 
 Dreissizacker, Elizabeth 94 
 
 Drewry, John T 187 
 
 Duncan, W. R 91 
 
 Dunn, Dudley 60 
 
 Dunn, D. L 84, 85, 86 
 
 Duval, G. W 424 
 
 Dupre, Louis J 632 
 
 Dunbar, Hugh 547 
 
 Duncan, James 365 
 
 Duttlinger, John 540, 541 
 
 Duff, Wm. L 5 
 
 Dupre, Wm. D 196 
 
 Dunscomb, Samuel H. (part of lot) 299 
 
 Dyer, J. S 19 
 
 Dyer, Leander E 59^ 
 
 DeArman, John 725 
 
 Duke, Mrs. George W. and Clayton 66i- 
 
 Dulin, Rice 377^ 
 
 Dominico, Bertha 20 
 
 Dean, Luther M 216 
 
 Dichle, George : 693 
 
 Ebbert, Alfred J 292 
 
 Ebler, Ernest, and Mrs. J. R. Kleiner.... 348 
 
 Eckerly, Gustavus A 531 
 
 Eddins, Virginia 251 
 
 Edmonds, A. N 175 550 F. 
 
 sro. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 280 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1140 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1072 
 
 F. 
 
 934 
 
 F. 
 
 195 
 
 T. 
 
 156 
 
 T. 
 
 153 
 
 T. 
 
 268 
 
 T. 
 
 224 
 
 S.G. 
 
 187 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 250 
 
 S.G. 
 
 333 
 
 F. 
 
 279 
 
 C.H. 
 
 144 
 
 S.G. 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 713 
 
 F. 
 
 838 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 534 
 
 C.H. 
 
 138 
 
 C.H. 
 
 70 
 
 T. 
 
 441 
 
 C.H. 
 
 400 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 232 
 
 S.G. 
 
 880 
 
 C.H. 
 
 286 
 
 C.H. 
 
 250 
 
 F. 
 
 115 
 
 T. 
 
 593 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
 121 
 
 F. 
 
 131 
 
 S.G. 
 
 174 
 
 C.H. 
 
 308 
 
 T. 
 
 259 
 
 T. 
 
 375 
 
 C.H. 
 
 202 
 
 C.H. 
 
IQO Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Edmondson, J. H , 162, 163, 164 
 
 Edgar, Mrs. Wm 508 
 
 EdriDgton, James H 115 
 
 Edwards, Wm. H 213 
 
 Eenboom, Henry 146 
 
 Eichberg, J. L 162 
 
 Elder, James (part of lot) 299 
 
 Eldridge, Thomas D 44^ 
 
 Ellett, Henry T., and R. B. Maury 128 
 
 Elliott, Wm 492 
 
 Elliott, John D 507 
 
 Elliott, L. H 52 
 
 Ellermann, Mrs. Julia 556 
 
 Elphinstone, George 237 
 
 Ensley, Enoch 13 
 
 Epps,'Wyatt 599 
 
 Erskine, Alexander 77 
 
 Ess, Dorathea 601 
 
 Estes, Bedford M 24, 54 
 
 Eveleth, S. C 526 
 
 Evans, Nannie 235 
 
 Edwards, Charles A 377 
 
 Erek, Charles 576 
 
 Eakin, Mary M 396 
 
 Fagg, Mary E, and J. A. Anderson 12, 15 
 
 Farnsworth, Thomas R 12 
 
 Falls, Gilbrath 68 
 
 Fenner, C. S 141 
 
 Ferguson, W. D 147 
 
 Ferguson, Mrs. Eliza E 354, 355 
 
 Ferguson, Alexander M 95 
 
 Ferguson, Catherine 243 
 
 Ferguson, 160 
 
 Fegan, Edward 379 
 
 Featherston, D. H 84 
 
 Fagan, William N 397 
 
 Fitzgerald, H., and G. Taylor 32 
 
 Fisher, George W. , and G. Falls 90 
 
 Firinie, J. G., and J. F. Sale 20 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 815 
 
 C.H. 
 
 108 
 
 F. 
 
 825 
 
 L.C. 
 
 270 
 
 T. 
 
 135 
 
 T. 
 
 168 
 
 T. 
 
 S80 
 
 C.H. 
 
 253 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 550 
 
 C.H. 
 
 270 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 231 
 
 C.H. 
 
 635 
 
 L.C. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
 120 
 
 C.H. 
 
 139 
 
 F. 
 
 855 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 390 
 
 C.H. 
 
 120 
 
 F. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
 800 
 
 T. 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 667 
 
 S.G. 
 
 440 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 594 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 280 
 
 C.H. 
 
 270 
 
 C.H. 
 
 572 
 
 C.H. 
 
 162 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 176 
 
 F. 
 
 264 
 
 T. 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 265 
 
 T. 
 
 99 
 
 T. 
 
 225 
 
 C.H. 
 
 350 
 
 C.H. 
 
 400 
 
 T. 
 
List of Proprietors. 191 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO, FT. 8EC. 
 
 Fire Company No. 5 152,153 G48 F. 
 
 Fleming, A 71 IGO C.H. 
 
 Flaherty, J. M 333^ 168 C.H. 
 
 Flaherty, J. M 44o" 202 C.H. 
 
 Flaherty, J. M 659 2865 C.H. 
 
 Flaherty, J. M 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 
 
 17, 72, 74, 75, 77 1338 Col'd. 
 
 Flaherty, J. M 456,457,458 786 C.H. 
 
 Flaherty, J. M 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89 2658 Col'd. 
 
 Fletcher, Felix M 17 203 F. 
 
 Floyd, James , 21 161 F. 
 
 Flournoy, J. G 90 692 T. 
 
 Flournoy, Thomas C 538^ 216 C.H. 
 
 Fleece, John A 251 175 F. 
 
 Floyd, Richard C 506 102 F. 
 
 Flynn,JohnT 179 96 S.G. 
 
 Ford, Newton 32 885 C.H.C. 
 
 Ford, W. G 366,367 754 C.H. 
 
 Fowlkes, Amelia A 480 310 C.H. 
 
 Fowlkes, Sterling 481 470 C.H. 
 
 Folwell, W. M 615 1316 C.H. 
 
 Fowler, John W 1 1275 F. 
 
 Foute, G. P., and H. D. Small 102 290 T. 
 
 Forsyth, Emily J 48 187 T. 
 
 Folger, Benjamin F 278 162 C.H. 
 
 Fowlkes, Mrs. Dr. Jeptha 373, 375 895 C.H. 
 
 Forrest, General N. B 47 1200 C.H.C. 
 
 Fowlkes, Mrs. Austin 58 185 Col'd. 
 
 Foster, Wm 64 100 Col'd. 
 
 Forster, David B 217^ 210 F. 
 
 Ford, Samuel H 35^ 157 T. 
 
 Forster, Louisa 64 262 S.G. 
 
 Foster, Wm. C. C 276 260 F. 
 
 Frierson, Gardner 38 238 C.H. 
 
 Franklin, James 9 161 F. 
 
 Frick, Nicholas, and J. Burkle 9 846 C.H. 
 
 Frazier, Ceylon B 115 644 C.H. 
 
 Frazier, Dr. John R 82,83 349 F. 
 
 Frank, J. F 166 660 F. 
 
 France, Chas 71 120 F. 
 
192 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PKOPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Frierson, D. B , Estate of 609 
 
 Frick, John, and Mary Schnerring 285 
 
 Friek, Rosa 511 
 
 Frost, James E 461 
 
 Frederick, Edward 482 
 
 Frazer, Rev. Robert 464 
 
 Fulton, Jean Y 352 
 
 Fussell, J. V 12 
 
 Fisher, Thomas A 105 
 
 Fifer, Jacob 568 
 
 Farris, William 28 
 
 Freeman, John J 151 
 
 Fitzgerald, Wiley 696 
 
 Fryfogle, Mary A 404 
 
 Gailor, Francis M 339 
 
 Gailer, Wm. H .; 455 
 
 Gage, Wm. A 280 
 
 Garside, Robert 590 
 
 Gale, Tom, and M. L. Perkins 602 
 
 Gantt, George 622 
 
 Gatti, J. B 170 
 
 Gartrell, J. M 189 
 
 Gair, Isaac 218 
 
 Gale, T. C. 15 
 
 Garrett, Joseph 282 
 
 Gates, S. M 103 
 
 Geugel, John 325 
 
 Geist, Theodore 253 
 
 Gibson, J., and Wm. Kirk 76 
 
 Giles, Thomas 161 
 
 Gilbert, Dr. Samuel 479 
 
 Gibson, J. F 140 
 
 Gill, George M 363, 364 
 
 Gitter, Catherine 315 
 
 Gilbert, J. V 192 
 
 Gill, HenryC 437 
 
 Gibson, Arthur D 58 
 
 Girardeau, Thomas J 532 
 
 Gilmore, Caroline F 591 
 
 0. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 234 
 
 C.H. 
 
 216 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 157 
 
 T. 
 
 219 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 T. 
 
 288 
 
 C.H. 
 
 234 
 
 T. 
 
 404 
 
 L.C. 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 315 
 
 S.G. 
 
 372 
 
 S.G. 
 
 157 
 
 C.H. 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 110 
 
 C.H. 
 
 209 
 
 T. 
 
 210 
 
 F. 
 
 144 
 
 F. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 390 
 
 C.H. 
 
 364 
 
 C.H. 
 
 154 
 
 T. 
 
 268 
 
 T. 
 
 227 
 
 T. 
 
 242 
 
 C.H. 
 
 420 
 
 C.H. 
 
 100 
 
 C.H. 
 
 108 
 
 F. 
 
 119 
 
 C.H. 
 
 270 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 176 
 
 T. 
 
 736 
 
 C.H. 
 
 155 
 
 T. 
 
 288 
 
 F. 
 
 85 
 
 T. 
 
 31U 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 160 
 
 F. 
 
 360 
 
 T. 
 
List of Proprietors. 1 93 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. XO. LOT. 
 
 Glydwell, John 390 
 
 Glisson, R. H 4-35 
 
 Glisson, W. B 449 
 
 (xlassick, F 228 
 
 Goff, J. D 34 
 
 Goyer, Wm 1(57 
 
 Goyer, C. W 49 
 
 (ioodwyn, Wm. A 132, 133 
 
 Goff, A.L 49 
 
 Goodyear, D. F., and Crook 8 
 
 Goodlett, Wm. H 87 
 
 Goodlett, Henry E 1(5 
 
 Gould, 569 
 
 Goodman, Joseph P 538 
 
 Goodwin, John W 331 
 
 Gore, James P 484 
 
 Gray, J li 35 
 
 Gray, Dr. S L 344 
 
 Gray, Washington L 567 
 
 Gray, Dock 116 
 
 Gray, Mrs. Mary 368 
 
 Grosvenor, H. M 154, 295 
 
 Gregory, Jos. M 203 
 
 Grainger, George, and W. Miller 210 
 
 Groves, David 395 
 
 Greene, Wm. F 61(5 
 
 Graham, B 62, 63, 64 
 
 Greer, David S 24, 94 
 
 Green, Mrs. Sarah B 116 
 
 Graham, James 183 
 
 Grant, James A 264 
 
 Grider, Wm. H 89 
 
 Greenlaw, Wm. B. and J. 250 
 
 Griffing, J. B., and George R. Grant 61 
 
 Griswold, C. A 405 
 
 Griffing, J. C 180, 181, 182, 183 
 
 Greene, L. S 39 
 
 Grant, Lewis 408 
 
 Grieshaber, Joseph 197 
 
 Grove, Wm. L 361 
 
 13 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 112 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 148 
 
 F. 
 
 1248 
 
 C.H. 
 
 624 
 
 F. 
 
 943 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 539 
 
 F. 
 
 256 
 
 T. 
 
 640 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 300 
 
 T. 
 
 435 
 
 S.G. 
 
 160 
 
 C.H. 
 
 132 
 
 T. 
 
 120 
 
 C.H. 
 
 195 
 
 T. 
 
 816 
 
 C.H. 
 
 100 
 
 C.H. 
 
 153 
 
 F. 
 
 96 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 110 
 
 T. 
 
 537 
 
 C.H. 
 
 285 
 
 C.H. 
 
 232 
 
 C.H. 
 
 130 
 
 C.H. 
 
 281 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1249 
 
 F. 
 
 417 
 
 T. 
 
 408 
 
 F. 
 
 312 
 
 C.H. 
 
 210 
 
 C.H. 
 
 720 
 
 F. 
 
 1200 
 
 T. 
 
 752 
 
 T. 
 
 121 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1226 
 
 T. 
 
 384 
 
 T. 
 
 126 
 
 C.H. 
 
 315 
 
 F. 
 
 218 
 
 T. 
 
194 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETOKS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. 
 
 Griffith, H:irriet D 379 90 
 
 Graves, J. M. and H. S , and J. W. 
 
 Maddox 616 830 
 
 Graham, George C 262 224 
 
 Grindrod, Robert 503 120 
 
 Graves, James R 1721 276 
 
 Griffith, Jame? 528"^ 150 
 
 Greenwood, Mary J 600 323 
 
 Green, Nathaniel S 137 220 
 
 Green, Mrs. S. E., and Wm. J. Webb 209 366 
 
 Gross, Benjamin F 355 228 
 
 Gregory, Joseph M 204 440 
 
 Groves, Elizabeth 396 176 
 
 Groomes, Robert L., and Wm. W. Main- 
 
 gault 205 336 
 
 Green, Simon W 15H 240 
 
 GiUett, Allen 223^ 120 
 
 Glass, John H 675 151 
 
 Gaunt, Joseph 405 96 
 
 Glindkamp, Herman 153 236 
 
 Guion, H. L 104 1134 
 
 Griffin, Mary 53 124 
 
 Harris, Wm. R 28 480 
 
 Harris, J. T 29 266 
 
 Harris, Ishani G 172 286 
 
 Harris, A. 605 121 
 
 Harris, Wm. L 738 367 
 
 Harris, A. 2 134 
 
 Harris, Rebecca 3 450 
 
 Hayley, J. H 118 198 
 
 Hamlin, Wm. B 130 632 
 
 Hamlin, J. F., and Quenichet 136, 137, 138 807 
 
 Hannah, Jas 214 240 
 
 Halstead, J 362 288 
 
 Hancock, Captain A. S 22 300 
 
 Hawks, M., and J. B. Sharpe 74 408 
 
 Hart, W. W.,Jr 148 200 
 
 Hantsman, G. T., Estate of. 500 262 
 
 Hayden, E. B 63 262 
 
 SEC. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 T. 
 
 F. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 F. 
 
 F. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 F. 
 
 F. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 F. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 C. H. C. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 T. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 S.G. 
 
List of Proprietors. 195 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Harape, H. G., and \V. Reinhardt 104 
 
 Hardin, Wra. F 251 
 
 Hamncr, Theodore A 65 
 
 Hasel], Bently D Ill 
 
 Hamilton, Caj^taiu J., Heirs of. 90^ 
 
 Hall, Wm 176 
 
 Hart, J 314 
 
 Hach, Philip 559 
 
 Hatch, F 159 
 
 Hammersley, Mrs. Captain 676 
 
 Haramar, B, E 279 
 
 Hawley, Z. K 182 
 
 Hampton, H. W 313 
 
 Harrison, C. A 277 
 
 Hays, A. J 252 
 
 Halle, D. H 318, 342 
 
 Harper, Joseph 322 
 
 Halstead, J 431 
 
 Harder, Henry 25 
 
 Hammock, Robert L 13 
 
 Harbert, John 107 
 
 Harbert, John 20,21 
 
 Hartie, Caroline 526 
 
 Hamilton, Thomas A 22 
 
 Hach, Agatha 565 
 
 Hanson , John P 542 
 
 Haskins, William 188 
 
 Harver, George W 504 
 
 Hannauer, Louis 30 
 
 Haskin, AVilliam B 592 
 
 Harback, J. C 281 
 
 Hamilton, Morris, Estate of. 69 
 
 Haessig, Dan'l H., and Meyer, Aloys 660 
 
 Henry, Mrs 96 
 
 Hester, C. J 36 
 
 Henry, A. J 497 
 
 Hendrickson, C. R 8 
 
 Heuer, A. F., and W. C. Warner 413 
 
 Heckle, F., and C. and J. A. Auer 537 
 
 Herndon, DeWitt C 208 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 215 
 
 T. 
 
 1104 
 
 T. 
 
 97 
 
 F. 
 
 234 
 
 F. 
 
 308 
 
 T. 
 
 123 
 
 T. 
 
 160 
 
 C.H. 
 
 150 
 
 C.H. 
 
 187 
 
 T. 
 
 112 
 
 C.H. 
 
 102 
 
 T. 
 
 252 
 
 C.H. 
 
 190 
 
 C.H. 
 
 169 
 
 T. 
 
 1007 
 
 T. 
 
 179 
 
 T. 
 
 149 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 224 
 
 F. 
 
 396 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 114 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 988 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 168 
 
 T. 
 
 412 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 140 
 
 C.H. 
 
 92 
 
 T. 
 
 200 
 
 S.G. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 400 
 
 L.C. 
 
 277 
 
 T. 
 
 126 
 
 T. 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 288 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 673 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 300 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 C.H. 
 
 646 
 
 C.H. 
 
 224 
 
 S.G. 
 
196 Ebnwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Hill, William A 470 
 
 Hill, John B 21 
 
 Hill, I. M 81, 84 
 
 Hill, Duncan 129 
 
 Hill, HuraeF 359 
 
 Hill, Thomas 108 
 
 Hill, AVilliam Kenan 77 
 
 Hill, Sam 71 
 
 Hill, Oiitten L 440 
 
 Hiestand,P 246 
 
 Hirth, N 564 
 
 Hibbitt, Mrs. Ellen W 110 
 
 Hinsou, Shelton 545 
 
 Hickman, Benj. W 406 
 
 Helbing, Agnes 562 
 
 Hicks, James F 61 
 
 Hinton, Mrs. Minnie 561 
 
 Hines, Rev. R 174 
 
 Hoist, C. K 200, 201 
 
 Hoist, C. K 242, 243, 244 
 
 Hoist, C. K 106, 112 
 
 Hoist, C. K 259, 260 
 
 Hoist, Ellen = 577 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 75 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 208, 235 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co h^, 61 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 28 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 458, 459, 475, 476 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 460, 474 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 30 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 31 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 32 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 33 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 423 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 424 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 75 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 121 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 422 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 421 
 
 «C. P. L. Colored Pauper Lot. 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 e-EC. 
 
 199 
 
 T. 
 
 222 
 
 C.H. 
 
 990 
 
 C.H. 
 
 600 
 
 C.H. 
 
 305 
 
 C.H. 
 
 165 
 
 F. 
 
 822 
 
 F. 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd.. 
 
 165 
 
 T. 
 
 286 
 
 C.H. 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 198 
 
 C.H. 
 
 181 
 
 T. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 143 
 
 T. 
 
 512 
 
 C. H.C. 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 390 
 
 C.H. 
 
 220 
 
 T. 
 
 397 
 
 T. 
 
 436 
 
 F. 
 
 1392 
 
 T. 
 
 600 
 
 T. 
 
 230 
 
 T. 
 
 554 
 
 T. 
 
 432 
 
 Col'd.. 
 
 400 
 
 F. 
 
 749 
 
 T. 
 
 288 
 
 T. 
 
 430 
 
 F. 
 
 527 
 
 F. 
 
 390 
 
 F. 
 
 258 
 
 F. 
 
 644 
 
 T. 
 
 336 
 
 T. 
 
 230 
 
 T. 
 
 4800 
 
 *C.P.L. 
 
 696 
 
 T. 
 
 258 
 
 T. 
 
List of Proprietors. 
 
 197 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 
 
 Hoist, J. C. & Co 
 
 Hopkins, A. M 
 
 Howard, J. M 
 
 Hoyle, Allen 
 
 Hoffman, John P 
 
 Holt, B. W. L 
 
 Howell, H.B 
 
 Howcott, Dr 
 
 House, J. H 
 
 Horton, C M. and H. C, and J. B. Sharpe, 
 
 Houston, John 
 
 Howze, George A 
 
 Holder, Mrs. Georgiana 
 
 Horn, Thomas T 
 
 Houston, John 
 
 Hoedley, E. K 
 
 Holmes, George L 197, 
 
 Hodges, B. D., and J. C. Terry 
 
 House, J. H 
 
 Holt, N. B. and J. A 
 
 Hodges, Dr. W. R 
 
 Hollis, Charles J 
 
 Horusby, Joseph C 
 
 Howard, Wardlow 
 
 Hock, Frederika W 
 
 Howard, Agatha 
 
 Hood, John 
 
 Holt, Peter, and Thomas Dawson 
 
 Hollenberg, Henry G 
 
 Hoan, Mrs. Mary 
 
 Humphries, Mrs. Susan 
 
 Hume, G. B 
 
 Hughes, Alexander and Ridler 
 
 Hunt, W. H 
 
 . LOT. 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 129 
 
 216 
 
 T. 
 
 55 
 
 216 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 121 
 
 4800 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 605 
 
 1440 
 
 F. 
 
 607 
 
 1200 
 
 F. 
 
 606 
 
 1200 
 
 F. 
 
 2 
 
 4700 
 
 T. 
 
 41 
 
 1104 
 
 C.H. 
 
 55 
 
 1155 
 
 C.H. 
 
 113 
 
 183 
 
 C.H. 
 
 124 
 
 252 
 
 C.H. 
 
 327 
 
 110 
 
 C.H. 
 
 27 
 
 344 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 40 
 
 150 
 
 T. 
 
 46 
 
 159 
 
 T. 
 
 69 
 
 420 
 
 T. 
 
 51 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 606 
 
 117 
 
 C.H. 
 
 277 
 
 130 
 
 C.H. 
 
 326 
 
 143 
 
 C.H. 
 
 123 
 
 309 
 
 T. 
 
 397 
 
 127 
 
 C.H. 
 
 198 
 
 456 
 
 C.H. 
 
 181 
 
 750 
 
 F. 
 
 46 
 
 159 
 
 T. 
 
 225 
 
 2G8 
 
 T. 
 
 246 
 
 185 
 
 F. 
 
 537 
 
 138 
 
 T. 
 
 239 
 
 115 
 
 F. 
 
 614 
 
 650 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 119 
 
 F. 
 
 551 
 
 81 
 
 F. 
 
 559 
 
 138 
 
 T. 
 
 189 
 
 163 
 
 C.H. 
 
 487 
 
 187 
 
 T. 
 
 677 
 
 190 
 
 C.H. 
 
 80 
 
 178 
 
 C.H. 
 
 151 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 169 
 
 306 
 
 C.H. 
 
 496 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
198 Elmwood Cemete7y. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Hunter, J. R 14 
 
 Hubbell, J. H., and N. Hurd 45 
 
 Hutchinson, AVm 617 
 
 Hunter, Win , 119 
 
 Hutton, W. M 114 
 
 Hunt, John M 194 
 
 Hume, Wm. A 434 
 
 Hudnall, George M 1 
 
 Hunt, Eliza T. and Wm. R 40, 41, 70, 71 
 
 Hug, Augusta 348^- 
 
 Hunter, Mary A 592 
 
 Hunt, T. W., and Samuel Mosby 168, 169 
 
 Hulls, G. T., and D. Caldwell 147 
 
 Hudnell, Miles F 216^ 
 
 Hunn, Alexander 105 
 
 Hyatt, Mrs. 205 
 
 Hester, John B 735 
 
 Hill, Napoleon, Martin and Wood 79 
 
 Hopson, Wm. J 626 
 
 Hargan, Margaret 477 
 
 Ing, John \?>\ 
 
 Ingraham, Julia S 237 
 
 Irby, S. H 68 
 
 Irwine, T. W 298 
 
 Irwin, W. T 503 
 
 Iredale, T. J 220 
 
 Irwing, John 492 
 
 Isbell,Kate 62^ 
 
 Irvine, Francis W 169, 170 . 
 
 James, Thomas 55 
 
 James, J. W 371 
 
 James, Thomas, and G. Mellersh 177 
 
 James, H. M., and S. A. Wilson 661 
 
 James, Henry, and Jos. Roosa 261 v 
 
 Jack, Wm 6 
 
 Jackson, D. F 411 
 
 Jackson, Clara 108 
 
 Jackson, Cin., and Alfred M. Scarbrough 12 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 174 
 
 T. 
 
 190 
 
 F. 
 
 231 
 
 C.H. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 249 
 
 T. 
 
 288 
 
 F. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 627 
 
 C. H.C. 
 
 1505 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 159 
 
 T. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 1330 
 
 F. 
 
 456 
 
 F. 
 
 108 
 
 F. 
 
 234 
 
 T. 
 
 135 
 
 T. 
 
 637 
 
 T. 
 
 1075 
 
 L.C, 
 
 148 
 
 T. 
 
 147 
 
 T. 
 
 406 
 
 F, 
 
 102 
 
 F. 
 
 141 
 
 F. 
 
 121 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 140 
 
 F. 
 
 149 
 
 T. 
 
 524 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 538 
 
 T. 
 
 253 
 
 T. 
 
 312 
 
 C.H. 
 
 375 
 
 C.H. 
 
 486 
 
 C.H. 
 
 235 
 
 F. 
 
 325 
 
 T. 
 
 150 
 
 C.H. 
 
 96 
 
 Col'd, 
 
 493 
 
 LC. 
 
List oj Proprietors. 199 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETOKS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Jarinan, L. T 117 
 
 Jennings, Mrs. H. S 65 
 
 Jeffersou, Joshua T 519 
 
 Jefferson, Silas W., Estate of. 114 
 
 Jones, J. C 220 
 
 Jones, J. R 139 
 
 Jones, W. A 386 
 
 Jones, G. W 430 
 
 Jones, Governor J. C 613, 614 
 
 Jones, J. E., and Wm. McNabb 11 
 
 Jones, R. S 261 
 
 Jones, J. W. A 307 
 
 Jones, L. P 233 
 
 Jones, Naomi 472 
 
 Jones, Eliza L 567 
 
 Jones, Paul S 613 
 
 Jones, Wm. C 255 
 
 Jones, Charles 48 
 
 Jones, Edward C 60 
 
 Johnson, John 164, 165 
 
 Jobe, S. M 253 
 
 Johnson, D. B 667 
 
 Johnston, Charles W 682 
 
 Johnson, M. D 26 
 
 Josey, Clementine 739 
 
 Jouette, 106 
 
 Johnson, John C 706, 720 
 
 Johnson , Cyrus 707, 7 1 9 
 
 Johnson, Richard H 450 
 
 Johnston, James V 328 
 
 Johnson, Thomas J 508 
 
 Johnston, Charles P 672^ 
 
 Johnson, Nancy M 110 
 
 Jones, Philip B 402 
 
 Joyce, William W 319 
 
 Johnson, Mary B 27 
 
 Jenny, John J 510^ 
 
 Jones, Daniel C 201 
 
 Joyner, Wm 24 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 750 
 
 L.C. 
 
 323 
 
 C.H. 
 
 225 
 
 C.H. 
 
 139 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 907 
 
 C.H. 
 
 280 
 
 T. 
 
 954 
 
 T. 
 
 136 
 
 T. 
 
 136 
 
 F. 
 
 105 
 
 T. 
 
 969 
 
 T. 
 
 532 
 
 T. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1000 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 594 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 1020 
 
 F. 
 
 387 
 
 T. 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 279 
 
 C.H. 
 
 204 
 
 F. 
 
 168 
 
 C.H. 
 
 255 
 
 T. 
 
 549 
 
 C.H. 
 
 446 
 
 C.H. 
 
 180 
 
 T. 
 
 303 
 
 T. 
 
 152 
 
 T. 
 
 120 
 
 C.H. : 
 
 523 
 
 L.C. 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 F. 
 
 292 
 
 S.G. 
 
 285 
 
 nn ^j 
 
 256 
 
 C.H. 
 
 571 
 
 L.C. 
 
200 
 
 Ebnwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Kay, R. L 155 
 
 Kay, Emma L 746 
 
 Keller, Joseph 134 
 
 Keller, Andrew J 596 
 
 Ketchum, Annie C 613 
 
 Kendall, Peter 437 
 
 Kenney, Col. E. ^y 5 
 
 Kellerman, Louise 274 
 
 Kehoe, Wra 18 
 
 Kerr, John 265 
 
 Kerr, James H 224 
 
 Kenneday, Wm. H., and Alex. Rudd 147 
 
 Keck and Smith 62, 92 
 
 Keil, Susanna 314 
 
 Kerr, Andrew H 23, 53 
 
 Kealhofer, Charles W 598 
 
 Kirtland, I. B 4 
 
 King and Strain , 31 
 
 Kirk, Wm., and J. Gibson 76 
 
 King, E. W. M 83 
 
 Kingsbury, T. D 116 
 
 King, John 19 
 
 King, H. S 353 
 
 Kirby, C. C 173 
 
 Kirvvan, A. C 358 
 
 King, M. C 86 
 
 Kimbrough, J. C 53 
 
 Kney, C 338 
 
 King, George AV 102 
 
 Kibbe, Wm. A 595 
 
 King, Julia 191 
 
 Klinck, H. J 429 
 
 Klinck, W 238 
 
 Knowlton, L. S 280 
 
 Kortrecht, Charles 76 
 
 Koehler, Herman 404 
 
 Kohlberg, August 385 
 
 Langboiue, Charles 321 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 187 
 
 C.H. 
 
 128 
 
 C.H. 
 
 348 
 
 C.H. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1350 
 
 F. 
 
 104 
 
 C.H. 
 
 184 
 
 F. 
 
 399 
 
 T. 
 
 168 
 
 F. 
 
 236 
 
 T. 
 
 1134 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 137 
 
 T. 
 
 777 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 170 
 
 T. 
 
 462 
 
 C.H. 
 
 276 
 
 C.H. 
 
 119 
 
 C.H. 
 
 627 
 
 C.H. 
 
 203 
 
 C.H. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
 294 
 
 C.H. 
 
 120 
 
 T. 
 
 486 
 
 C.H. 
 
 423 
 
 T. 
 
 302 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 162 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 144 
 
 S.G. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 130 
 
 T. 
 
 120 
 
 T. 
 
 1200 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 165 
 
 T. 
 
 153 C.H. 
 
List of Proprietors. 201 
 
 NAMES OF rROPRIETORS. ^ NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 
 
 Lamb, S. H 365 300 C.H. 
 
 Lamb, James M 230 232 F. 
 
 Latham, F. S 592,593, 610 630 C.H. 
 
 Lane, Fletcher 348 868 C.H. 
 
 Lampert, C. F 112 181 T. 
 
 Lauderdale, S. R 233 266 T. 
 
 Lanier, John C 630 522 C.H. 
 
 Lawrance, Levi, and Wm. E, Louder 617 650 T. 
 
 Lancaster, W. G 212 266 T. 
 
 Lake, Daniel 28 417 C.H.C. 
 
 Lane, George 495 142 T. 
 
 Lamberson, Thomas. .. ,.,, 67 262 S.G. 
 
 LaGrill, Louis 218 165 F. 
 
 Lawton, Rella 405 14S T. 
 
 Leatherman, Davidson M 1 1241 C.H. 
 
 Leonard, Thomas, Brown & Co 477 512 C.H. 
 
 Lester, Stephen J 498 262 C.H. 
 
 Leech, Archibald D 612 561 C.H. 
 
 Levett, J. S 117 288 F. 
 
 Lenow, Josepli 8 1768 S.G. 
 
 Lenow, John H 45 589 S.G. 
 
 Lenoir, Thomas B 229, 230, 231, 232, 233 1231 C.H. 
 
 Leath, James T 134,135 602 T. 
 
 Lewis, Wra. P 178 426 F. 
 
 Lemon, H 157 203 T. 
 
 Lewis, Mrs. Mary 64 189 T. 
 
 Lewis, J. H 158 203 T. 
 
 Leadbetter, T. W., and Estate of C. A. 
 
 Moores 701 204 C.H. 
 
 Lehner, John 253 199 C.H. 
 
 Lee, James W., Jr 565 1250 T. 
 
 Leech, John B 445 272 C.H. 
 
 Leftwich, John W 248 500 T. 
 
 LeClerc, Felix 310 172 T. 
 
 Learned, Paschal P 544 182 T. 
 
 Leatherman, D. M 87 100 Col'd. 
 
 Lea, John A 272 476 F. 
 
 Ledbetter, Samuel P 205 192 S.G. 
 
 Leverett, William 219 262 T. 
 
 Lees, John T 250 156 F. 
 
202 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. 
 
 Lewis, Barbour 
 
 Leslie, Jane H 
 
 Leidy, Eugene H 
 
 Leath Orphan Asylum, Trustees of 420, 
 
 Linville, Thomas D 
 
 Lindsay, M. W. , Heirs of. 
 
 Lindsay, James D 
 
 Lingner, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 Linkhauer, Jacob 
 
 Life, E 
 
 Lisenberry, Mrs. C 
 
 Littlefield, Catherine W 
 
 Lincoln , Mary A 
 
 Lippold, Herman C 
 
 Lowry, W. J 
 
 Locke, G. B 
 
 Lowden, John 
 
 Lonsdale, J. G 
 
 Logwood, Thomas H 
 
 Louis, Fred. W 
 
 Lloyd, S. S 
 
 Lopez, Joseph C 
 
 Lory, Joseph 
 
 Lucas, W. R 
 
 Ludy , Madeline 
 
 Luff, Mrs. Diana 
 
 Lucas, Lecoy 
 
 Luff, James C 
 
 Luhrmann, Henry 
 
 Lynch, Mrs. S. M 
 
 Lynch, Montgomery 596, 
 
 Lynn, Henry J 
 
 Lea, Georgiaua 
 
 Letson, Gabriel H 
 
 Littlejohn, W. W. and W. J 
 
 Lang, John 
 
 Leake, Samuel, Estate of. 
 
 Masonic Lodges 
 
 Maneese, Mrs. M. S 
 
 LOT, 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 42^ 
 
 300 
 
 C.H. 
 
 194 
 
 96 
 
 S.G.' 
 
 109 
 
 486 
 
 L.C. 
 
 425 
 
 523 
 
 T. 
 
 163 
 
 330 
 
 F. 
 
 144 
 
 80 
 
 C.H. 
 
 116 
 
 224 
 
 T. 
 
 406 
 
 130 
 
 C.H. 
 
 58 
 
 336 
 
 T. 
 
 184 
 
 178 
 
 T. 
 
 l?y 
 
 112 
 
 C.H. 
 
 204 
 
 15)2 
 
 S.G. 
 
 522 
 
 150 
 
 T. 
 
 765 
 
 182 
 
 C.H. 
 
 187 
 
 247 
 
 C.H. 
 
 242 
 
 476 
 
 C.H. 
 
 468 
 
 560 
 
 C.H. 
 
 10 
 
 522 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 74 
 
 675 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 236 
 
 121 
 
 F. 
 
 57 
 
 382 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 248 
 
 168 
 
 F. 
 
 194 
 
 297 
 
 T. 
 
 204 
 
 342 
 
 F. 
 
 223 
 
 180 
 
 F. 
 
 673 
 
 142 
 
 C.H. 
 
 148 
 
 210 
 
 T. 
 
 674 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 102 
 
 441 
 
 C.H. 
 
 202 
 
 272 
 
 C.H. 
 
 597 
 
 240 
 
 F. 
 
 184 
 
 184 
 
 S.G. 
 
 48 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 215 
 
 131 
 
 S.G. 
 
 695 
 
 150 
 
 C.H. 
 
 553 
 
 180 
 
 T. 
 
 313 
 
 324 
 
 F. 
 
 612 
 
 20000 
 
 T. 
 
 63 
 
 176 
 
 C.H. 
 
List of Prop7'icto7^s. 
 
 20 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. 
 
 Maxwell, Wm. L 
 
 Mabson, A 
 
 Mabsoii, Jane E 
 
 Maltbie, J. R 
 
 Marley, Newton and Y. F 
 
 May, Charles 
 
 Madding, Franklin 
 
 Mahler, F., and J. Boke 
 
 Maydwell, C. C 
 
 Mayd well, Thomas 
 
 Maydwell, James 
 
 Maiiafiy, Mary L 
 
 Manscoe, Mrs. Matilda 
 
 Mansfield, S 290, 
 
 Martin, B., and G. R. Redford 
 
 !Maury, Abner 
 
 Maury, Richard B., and H. T. Ellett 
 
 Mathews, Mrs. F 
 
 Maender, G. F 
 
 May,W. B 
 
 Maddox, H. S,, and J. W. and S. M. Graves 
 
 Maddox, 
 
 Maier, Veronika 
 
 Magevney, Michael 
 
 Marshall, Jane 
 
 Marshall, Erastus 
 
 Marden, Daniel G 
 
 Massie, Annie M 
 
 May, William B 
 
 Martin, Major J 
 
 Maingault,AVm."\V'. , and Rob't L. Groomes 
 
 Margerura, G. V 
 
 Memphis Typographical Union 
 
 Metropolitan Police Commissioners 
 
 Merrill, Alexander H 
 
 Merrill, A. P 
 
 Merril 1 , Branham 
 
 Merriman, J. E 
 
 Mellersh, George, and Thomas James 
 
 Meyer, Frank 
 
 LOT. 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 92 
 
 720 
 
 C.H. 
 
 200 
 
 no 
 
 C.H. 
 
 385 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 427 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 141 
 
 275 
 
 F. 
 
 193 
 
 270 
 
 T. 
 
 50 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 499 
 
 402 
 
 C.H. 
 
 191 
 
 204 
 
 T. 
 
 39 
 
 156 
 
 F. 
 
 588 
 
 585 
 
 T. 
 
 420 
 
 262 
 
 C.H, 
 
 403 
 
 122 
 
 C.H. 
 
 293 
 
 637 
 
 C.H. 
 
 81 
 
 343 
 
 F. 
 
 21 
 
 193 
 
 T. 
 
 128 
 
 550 
 
 C.H. 
 
 269 
 
 136 
 
 T. 
 
 539 
 
 175 
 
 C.H. 
 
 222 
 
 148 
 
 F. 
 
 616 
 
 830 
 
 T. 
 
 96 
 
 264 
 
 F. 
 
 196 
 
 438 
 
 F. 
 
 51 
 
 764 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 740 
 
 192 
 
 C.H. 
 
 183 
 
 208 
 
 S.G. 
 
 513 
 
 115 
 
 T. 
 
 5681 
 
 150 
 
 C.H. 
 
 218i 
 
 148 
 
 F. 
 
 560 
 
 105 
 
 T. 
 
 205 
 
 336 
 
 F. 
 
 15 
 
 363 
 
 L.C. 
 
 279 
 
 1000 
 
 F. 
 
 416 
 
 450 
 
 T. 
 
 522 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 43 
 
 1105 
 
 C.H. 
 
 206 
 
 290 
 
 C.H. 
 
 167 
 
 330 
 
 C.H. 
 
 177 
 
 375 
 
 C.H. 
 
 273 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
204 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 
 
 Mellersh, Frank 293 218 T. 
 
 Merriwether, Niles 310 271 C.H. 
 
 Melrose, Annie 498 102 T. 
 
 Meyers, Charles H., and Gustavus Reder. 210 411 F. 
 
 Mentges, Peter 580 214 C.H. 
 
 Merath,JohnB 579i 294 C.H. 
 
 Meyer, Aloys, and Haessig, Dan'l H 660 288 T. 
 
 Miller, Jacob 18 207 C.H. 
 
 Miller, Wilie B 26 1110 C.H. 
 
 Miller, W. L 125, 126 708 C.H. 
 
 Miller, W. H., and George Grainger 210 232 C.H. 
 
 Miller, A. B 330 115 C.H. 
 
 Miller, Adam 309 137 T. 
 
 Miller, Will: am 543 168 T. 
 
 Mitchell, R. B 142 340 C.H. 
 
 Mitchell, John H 154 147 T. 
 
 Mitchell, M.R 483 270 C.H. 
 
 Mitchell, Hoffman & Co 664 1720 C.H. 
 
 Mitchell, Hoffman & Co 90 640 Col'd. 
 
 Mitchell, Samuel A 306 202 C.H. 
 
 Mitchell, Maurice.... 436 120 T. 
 
 Middaugh, M. H 187 154 T. 
 
 Mickle, James D 254 171 C.H. 
 
 Michot, Edward L 369 114 T. 
 
 Mills, JohuC 198 330 F. 
 
 Minter, Isaac 76 100 Col'd. 
 
 Molloy, D. B wi33 621 C.H. 
 
 Moore, John L 74,75 409 C.H. 
 
 Moore, Callaway B 583 405 T. 
 
 Moore, Solomon 97 108 Col'd. 
 
 Montgomery, A. J 123 1239 C.H. 
 
 Morton, Q. L 131 280 C.H. 
 
 Morgan, G. W 425 262 C.H. 
 
 Morgan, M. A. E 275 126 C.H. 
 
 Morgan, Susan A and Allen F 26 287 C.H.C. 
 
 Morgan, Robert J 11 370 C.H.C. 
 
 Morris, C. C 87, 88, 102 786 F. 
 
 Morris, Chew 5 144 Col'd. 
 
 Morrison, John 100 270 F. 
 
 Morrison, A. D 67 101 F. 
 
List of Proprietors. 
 
 205 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO 
 
 Moon, Robert A e 
 
 Moon, Jacob N 
 
 Moon, C. E., Estate of, and T. W. Led- 
 
 better 
 
 Moreland, Wra. L 
 
 Moreland, John W 
 
 Moseley, J. B 
 
 Mosby, Sara'l, and Heirs of T. W. Hunt.. 168, 
 
 Mosby, Samuel 
 
 Moseby , Easter 
 
 Mosby, Pleasant, Estate of 
 
 Mosby, Charles W 
 
 Montany, F. B 
 
 Monroe, D. W., and G. W. Baxter n 
 
 Mottley, Anthony 
 
 Moffutt, James G 
 
 Mount, S. C, and J. W., and J. and Is". 
 
 S. B-uce 
 
 Mur2:)hy, J. J 
 
 Murrah, Jos. K., and C. B. Buchanan.... 
 
 Musso, Joseph 
 
 Mullin, W. C 
 
 McClure, Warren C 
 
 McClure, Rev. Edward 
 
 McPherson, C. G 
 
 McDouough, L 
 
 McGehee, E 
 
 McGehee, M. H 
 
 McNutt, S. F 
 
 McAlenny, J. L 
 
 McNabb, Wm., and J. R. Jones 
 
 McCoy, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 McConnell, James 
 
 McAnally, Wm. W 
 
 McGinnis, A. B 
 
 McKnight, J. M 
 
 McComb, Mrs. M. A 
 
 McGary, AV. L 
 
 McCabb, Mrs. N. P 
 
 McEwen, 
 
 . LOT. 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 433 
 
 621 
 
 C.H. 
 
 7.H 
 
 550 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 701 
 
 204 
 
 C.H. 
 
 399 
 
 116 
 
 C.H. 
 
 742 
 
 128 
 
 C.H. 
 
 234 
 
 198 
 
 C.H. 
 
 169 
 
 1330 
 
 F. 
 
 170 
 
 1100 
 
 F. 
 
 93 
 
 125 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 Tm. 
 
 120 
 
 F. 
 
 281 
 
 186 
 
 F. 
 
 55 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 i98 
 
 13U 
 
 F. 
 
 49 
 
 135 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 766 
 
 143 
 
 C.H. 
 
 145 
 
 1080 
 
 F. 
 
 350 
 
 500 
 
 C.H. 
 
 8 
 
 200 
 
 F. 
 
 402 
 
 125 
 
 C.H. 
 
 134 
 
 189 
 
 F. 
 
 17 
 
 288 
 
 C.H. 
 
 210 
 
 266 
 
 T. 
 
 218 
 
 208 
 
 C.H. 
 
 267 
 
 208 
 
 C.H. 
 
 356 
 
 1200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 619 
 
 648 
 
 C.H. 
 
 185 
 
 672 
 
 F. 
 
 98 
 
 263 
 
 F. 
 
 11 
 
 280 
 
 T. 
 
 336 
 
 111 
 
 C.H. 
 
 212 
 
 286 
 
 C.H. 
 
 213 
 
 253 
 
 C.H. 
 
 95 
 
 264 
 
 T. 
 
 128 
 
 263 
 
 F. 
 
 660 
 
 806 
 
 C.H. 
 
 377 
 
 231 
 
 C.H. 
 
 101 
 
 338 
 
 T. 
 
 485 
 
 423 
 
 C.H. 
 
2o6 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Mclntyre, J. N 542 
 
 McMullin, Mrs. G. W 367 
 
 McClelland, Mrs. \Y. R., J. F. Sellers, 
 
 and AV. F. Boyle 184 
 
 McKinney, Dr. A. F. , Estate of 187 
 
 McCleary, Archibald and Thompson 312 
 
 McNear, Alex. S 283 
 
 McLane, Jenny GO 
 
 McCain, Rufus H 114 
 
 Mcllvain, Wm. G., and Edwd. Sossomau. 453 
 
 McCrea, Margaret s -^ 278 
 
 McCain, James 500 
 
 McDavitt, James H 299 
 
 McCullouch, Benj. W 29 
 
 McClemons, William 254 
 
 McFarlaue, Mollie N 583 
 
 McGuire, Wm. E., and Wm. L. Radford 35 
 
 McHenry, Anna 481 
 
 McGee, William V.. 518 
 
 McKinney, James W 38 
 
 Montgomery, Henry A Ill 
 
 McMurray, Mrs. M 181 
 
 McMauus, James C 9 
 
 Martin, J. H., Wood and Hill 79 
 
 Massey, Elbert W 715 
 
 Moore, William M 697i 
 
 Meacham, Major L., and Stewart, Wm... 80 
 
 Nance, Mrs. Lucy A 439 
 
 Nagel, J. C 702 
 
 Neill, James Q, 5 
 
 Newby, O. P 47 
 
 Nevils, J. A 450 
 
 Newsom, John 148 
 
 Newman, F. W 543 
 
 Newsom, Mrs. E. K., and Mrs. M. C. 
 
 Trader 54 
 
 Neal, John 226 
 
 Nelson, Eugenie 311 
 
 Nelson, John H 464^ 
 
 10. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 140 
 
 C.H. 
 
 93 
 
 T. 
 
 736 
 
 F. 
 
 672 
 
 F. 
 
 212 
 
 T. 
 
 180 
 
 T. 
 
 300 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 114 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 301 
 
 T. 
 
 1781 
 
 F. 
 
 90 
 
 T. 
 
 1102 
 
 C.H. 
 
 612 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 130 
 
 F. 
 
 225 
 
 C.H. 
 
 400 
 
 L.C. 
 
 93 
 
 F. 
 
 155 
 
 T. 
 
 462 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 508 
 
 L.C. 
 
 240 
 
 S.G. 
 
 695 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 1075 
 
 L.C. 
 
 90 
 
 T. 
 
 110 
 
 C.H. 
 
 910 
 
 L.C. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 95 
 
 C.H. 
 
 341 
 
 C.H. 
 
 153 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 480 
 
 F. 
 
 150 
 
 C.H. 
 
 247 
 
 F. 
 
 152 
 
 F. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
 218 
 
 T. 
 
List of Proprietors. 207 
 
 NAMES OP rROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Nelson, Stith M., Estate of. 60 
 
 Nelson, Tliomas xV 29 
 
 Niederer, Edward 602 
 
 Norton, Sarah E 1 
 
 Norment, T. B 78 
 
 Norris, B. E 226 
 
 Noel, Theodore 139 
 
 Nolan, Henry 239 
 
 Nolton, Eugenie W 225 
 
 Norton, Nathan F 655 
 
 Niietzel, Harriet 7 
 
 Odd Fellows 120 
 
 Offutt, Albert N 247 
 
 O'Hara, C. M 703 
 
 Oliver, George 324 
 
 Oliver, Joseph N 19 
 
 Olrastead, B. J 101 
 
 Oberst, Mrs. Rosina. 589 
 
 Orne, Richard E 14 
 
 Orr, James A 749 
 
 Ostman, Sybile 671i 
 
 Outlaw, EdmondW 400^ 
 
 Owen, Miles 8 
 
 Owensby, Milton 221 
 
 Park, David 10 
 
 Park, ThomasC 188 
 
 Page, D. C 45 
 
 Page, John F 79 
 
 Parker, M , 111 
 
 Parker, O. B 2 
 
 Pattison, Mrs. L. H. and A. P 345, 346 
 
 Pattison, George 82 
 
 Padgett, C. M 35 
 
 Padgett, Wesley L 36 
 
 Partin, Lodwick 118 
 
 Patillo, R.H 181 
 
 Patillo, Harriet J .. 178 
 
 Paine, C, Heirs of. 177 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 362 
 
 C.H. 
 
 420 
 
 L.C. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 470 
 
 L.C. 
 
 214 
 
 C.H. 
 
 380 
 
 C.H. 
 
 312 
 
 F. 
 
 115 
 
 T. 
 
 184 
 
 F. 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 195 
 
 F. 
 
 16052 
 
 F. 
 
 266 
 
 F. 
 
 99 
 
 C.H. 
 
 90 
 
 C.H. 
 
 420 
 
 L.C. 
 
 265 
 
 F. 
 
 156 
 
 F. 
 
 1343 
 
 C.H. 
 
 115 
 
 C.H. 
 
 138 
 
 C.H. 
 
 141 
 
 CH. 
 
 1045 
 
 C.H. 
 
 140 
 
 F. 
 
 1156 
 
 C.H. 
 
 400 
 
 F. 
 
 547 
 
 C.H. 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1150 
 
 T. 
 
 330 
 
 C.H. 
 
 646 
 
 T. 
 
 208 
 
 F. 
 
 150 
 
 F. 
 
 260 
 
 F. 
 
 286 
 
 C.H. 
 
 299 
 
 C.H. 
 
 450 
 
 F. 
 
208 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. 
 
 Pavkl, Mrs. Rosalie 
 
 Patter:;on, H. G 
 
 Patterson, Mary E 
 
 Patterson, Page M 
 
 Paterson, Charles T 
 
 Packer, Henry B 
 
 Parrish, M. R 
 
 Patrick, 
 
 Patrick, John M 
 
 Partee, Hiram A 
 
 Pascal!, Jerry 
 
 Paine, James A 
 
 Penn , James 
 
 Penn, James 
 
 Penn, Letitia B 
 
 Perkins, Jacob 
 
 Perkins, Marland L., and T. Gale 
 
 Pearson, S. J 
 
 Person, Wm 
 
 Person, R. J -•■ 
 
 Peter, H. W 
 
 Petersen, Theodore 
 
 Peters, John M 
 
 Peterson, John H 
 
 Peabody, John M 
 
 Peyton, James T., and John A. Sims... 
 
 Pearce, McCallister C 
 
 Pendleton, Mrs. E. J 
 
 Pfichterer, Frederick 
 
 Phillips, Samuel W 
 
 Phillips, Charles J 
 
 Phillips Charles J., and Levin H. Coe 
 
 Ph i 1 i p p i , A n d r e w 
 
 Philler, George 
 
 Philniott, Veronica 
 
 Pitman, R. R 
 
 Pitman, AVm. and R. R 
 
 Pitman, Gilly 
 
 Pittman, Mrs. T. F 
 
 Pimm, Joseph 
 
 NO. 
 
 LOT. 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 393 
 
 154 
 
 C.H. 
 
 301 
 
 114 
 
 T. 
 
 72 
 
 203 
 
 F. 
 
 584 
 
 516 
 
 T. 
 
 195 
 
 96 
 
 S.G. 
 
 588 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 410 
 
 140 
 
 C.H. 
 
 24 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 370 
 
 500 
 
 C.H. 
 
 16 
 
 760 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 627 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 560 
 
 192 
 
 F. 
 
 51 
 
 1053 
 
 C.H. 
 
 488 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 578 
 
 160 
 
 F. 
 
 217 
 
 234 
 
 C.H. 
 
 602 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 229 
 
 263 
 
 T. 
 
 257 
 
 1200 
 
 T. 
 
 568 
 
 1168 
 
 T. 
 
 165 
 
 420 
 
 T. 
 
 482 
 
 275 
 
 C.H. 
 
 76 
 
 162 
 
 F. 
 
 747 
 
 146 
 
 C.H. 
 
 731 
 
 208 
 
 C.H. 
 
 55 
 
 402 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 232 
 
 263 
 
 T. 
 
 231 
 
 266 
 
 T. 
 
 591 
 
 140 
 
 F. 
 
 360 
 
 397 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 323 
 
 C.H. 
 
 46 
 
 ,600 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 416 
 
 140 
 
 C.H. 
 
 73 
 
 256 
 
 F. 
 
 489 
 
 182 
 
 T. 
 
 114 
 
 268 
 
 C.H. 
 
 391 
 
 126 
 
 C.H. 
 
 394 
 
 127 
 
 C.H. 
 
 278 
 
 181 
 
 T. 
 
 50 
 
 160 
 
 F. 
 
List of Proprietors. 209 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Pickett, Ed. Burke 252 
 
 Pickett, Wm. S 258, 259, 2G0, 261 
 
 Plummer, W. T 16 
 
 Plummer, E. S 274 
 
 Polk, A. J 47 
 
 Porter, Martha A 56 
 
 Porter, E. R •. 120, 121 
 
 Porter, Ethel N 103 
 
 Porter, D. T 128 
 
 Porter, Jane 2 
 
 Powers, C. S 268 
 
 Poston, Wm. K 124, 125 
 
 Pooley, James and Wm 179 
 
 Powel, George R 126 
 
 Pope, John 618 
 
 Pope, McryE 234, 260 
 
 Pollock, Kate, and W. V. Busby, and S. 
 
 Whitten 748 
 
 Pointer, David 315 
 
 Pool, Samuel A 507^ 
 
 Provine, J. M 57, 58^ 
 
 Preseott, John P •• 144 
 
 Prescott, O. F 384 
 
 Preston, Mrs. T. W 52 
 
 Proudfit, W. P 248 
 
 Proudfit, Wm., and B. B. Barnes 596 
 
 Pritchard, Dorcas E 39 
 
 Putnam, L. S 302 
 
 Pinson, Mrs. R. A 34 
 
 Pollock, Alexander J 34 
 
 Pythias, Knights of... 413, 414, 415, 430, 431, 432 
 
 Quenichet, John W., and Hamlili...l36, 137, 138 
 Quigley, Jas. D. , and John W. Wilkerson. 722 
 
 Quinlan, John C 680 
 
 Ragland, Mrs. Elizabeth 121, 127 
 
 Ragland, J. 113 
 
 Ragan, M. B 72 
 
 Rawlings, Sarah J 79 
 
 14 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 210 
 
 C.H. 
 
 888 
 
 C.H. 
 
 228 
 
 F. 
 
 289 
 
 T. 
 
 500 
 
 C.H. 
 
 506 
 
 C.H. 
 
 509 
 
 C.H. 
 
 641 
 
 F. 
 
 243 
 
 T. 
 
 305 
 
 S.G. 
 
 165 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1020 
 
 T. 
 
 690 
 
 F. 
 
 285 
 
 F. 
 
 731 
 
 C.H. 
 
 300 
 
 F. 
 
 170 
 
 C.H. 
 
 497 
 
 F. 
 
 117 
 
 T. 
 
 658 
 
 C.H. 
 
 567 
 
 F. 
 
 160 
 
 C.H. 
 
 660 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 234 
 
 C.H. 
 
 152 
 
 C.H. 
 
 277 
 
 S.G. 
 
 100 
 
 T. 
 
 640 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 1942 
 
 T. 
 
 S07 
 
 C.H. 
 
 280 
 
 C.H. 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 630 
 
 F. 
 
 264 
 
 F. 
 
 232 
 
 T. 
 
 264 
 
 T. 
 
2IO 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Ragsdale, F. A 80 
 
 Randle, John E 161 
 
 Raukin, Rev. Adam L 244 
 
 Ransom, Judah W 261 
 
 Rawlings, J. L. and V. A 2 
 
 Radford, Wm. L., and W. E. McGuire... 35 
 
 Ransom, Lemuel C 594 
 
 Rapp, John, and Elias H, Brown .. 481 
 
 Reid, Ben 208 
 
 Redmond, Reuben T 127 
 
 Rembert, S'^rah R 1 
 
 Remhardt, W., and H. G. Hampe 104 
 
 Reid, Arch 166 
 
 Reeve, T. N 366 
 
 Rehkoff, Henry 340 
 
 Renkert, A 110 
 
 Redford, George R., and B. Martin 81 
 
 Reder, Gust., and C. H. Meyers 210 
 
 Redford, Wm. A., and Wm. H. Beasley.. 486 
 
 Redford, Wm. A - 485 
 
 Renner, Ernest A 506 
 
 Reid, John 109 
 
 Rhodes, Vernon 4 
 
 Ringwald, John 133 
 
 Richards, Walter 191 
 
 Richardson, R. V 228 
 
 Richardson, C. G 3 
 
 Richards, Chas. W 153 
 
 Richards, Frank S 285 
 
 Richards, Louis R 59 
 
 Richmond, Chas 341 
 
 Risk, E. F 146 
 
 Riggs, James 750 
 
 Rix, John 741 
 
 Richert, Ida 462 
 
 Ridler, Alexander, and Hughes 169 
 
 Ringwald, John 135 
 
 Ritchey, Adelbert L 160^ 
 
 Ries, Frederick 150 
 
 Robards, Howell R 44 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 266 
 
 T. 
 
 210 
 
 T. 
 
 138 
 
 F. 
 
 200 
 
 F. 
 
 456 
 
 C. H.C. 
 
 400 
 
 L.C. 
 
 227 
 
 T. 
 
 323 
 
 T. 
 
 230 
 
 C.H. 
 
 275 
 
 T. 
 
 800 
 
 T. 
 
 215 
 
 T. 
 
 384 
 
 T. 
 
 70 
 
 T. 
 
 99 
 
 T. 
 
 296 
 
 T. 
 
 343 
 
 F. 
 
 411 
 
 F. 
 
 140 
 
 F. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 234 
 
 T. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 840 
 
 T. 
 
 365 
 
 C.H. 
 
 288 
 
 C.H. 
 
 380 
 
 C.H. 
 
 400 
 
 T. 
 
 140 
 
 T. 
 
 308 
 
 T. 
 
 311 
 
 C. H.C. 
 
 112 
 
 C.H. 
 
 504 
 
 F. 
 
 152 
 
 C.H. 
 
 144 
 
 C.H. 
 
 157 
 
 T. 
 
 306 
 
 C.H. 
 
 372 
 
 C.H. 
 
 200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 148 
 
 T. 
 
 900 
 
 C.H, 
 
List of Proprietors. 211 
 
 NAMES OF PROPIUETORS. NO. EOT. NO. FT. SEC. 
 
 Rosser, J. D 04 292 C.H. 
 
 Robb, J. H 117 195 C.H. 
 
 Robinson, James 227 28<S C.H. 
 
 Robinson, Wm, A 140 2G1 F. 
 
 Robinson, Alexander 43 2(52 S.G. 
 
 Robinson, John B 078,679 487 C.H. 
 
 Royster, Francis AY 47 360 F. 
 
 Resell, B.L 79,80 763 F. 
 
 Ross, A 71 204 T. 
 
 Roll, Mrs. Sarah A 24 210 F. 
 
 Royster, Francis W 44 96 F. 
 
 Rodgers, Wm 180 295 C.H. 
 
 Rodgers, John F 65J 450 C.H.C. 
 
 Rodgers, Yolney P., Estate of. 66 666 C.H.C. 
 
 Rogers, H. A 14 130 8.G. 
 
 Rogers, Joseph 516 131 T. 
 
 Rogers, Mary Ann 329 337 T. 
 
 Rogers, Azel A 409 96 F. 
 
 Roseborough, Mrs. S 54 743 T. 
 
 Ross, Miss Kate 241 112 T. 
 
 Ross, Mrs. Lizzie 136,138 546 F. 
 
 Ross, Alfred 70 100 Col'd. 
 
 Rossel, Marion J 510 262 C.H. 
 
 Robertson, Joseph R 473 HO T. 
 
 Robertson, Sue 74 230 F. 
 
 Roland, J. G 426 262 C.H. 
 
 Roach, Andrew J 35^ 370 C.H.C. 
 
 Roach, Eliza 08 100 Col'd. 
 
 Rajoux, Marcus, and M. W. Jones 119 230 C.H. 
 
 Rogerson, MaryA 556 125 T. 
 
 Rootes, Wm. M., and Emily Taylor 576 375 C.H. 
 
 Roosa, Jos. S., and Henry James 261^ 235 F. 
 
 Russell, Joseph E 199^ 168 S.G. 
 
 Rudy, Josephine 384 166 T. 
 
 Rehkoff, Dorothea 535 230 T. 
 
 Read, Samuel P 14 270 L.C. 
 
 Rudisill, Mrs. M 199 150 C.H. 
 
 Rudisill, Mrs 23 270 T. 
 
 Rutland, S. W 234 266 T. 
 
 Ruvers, B. H 43 103 F. 
 
212 
 
 Ehnwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF TROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 
 
 Ruleman, W. J 337 167 T. 
 
 Riileman, Mrs. Mury 336 203 T. 
 
 Ruffiii, James D 11-^-23 600 F. 
 
 Riuld, Alex., and Wra. H. Keiinedey 147 236 T. 
 
 Kuinbough, Geo. P. C 10 380 S.G. 
 
 Rudelhuber, Annie C 639 173 T. 
 
 Rambling, Christine, and J. Bengert 698 154 C.H. 
 
 Rogers, Spencer C 519 180 T. 
 
 Ravnor, Eli 28 311 L.C. 
 
 Sannoner, J. A 
 
 Sanoner, Phillis 
 
 Saffaran s, John L 
 
 Sandford, L. M ,:,,. 
 
 Sample, J. A 
 
 Saint, W. J 
 
 Sangster, Caroline M. 
 
 Saunders, Thos. F., Heirs of. 
 
 Saunders, Thos. B 
 
 Saunders, P. W 
 
 Saunders, Joanna JM 
 
 Saunders, Anna J 
 
 Sanderson, W m 
 
 Samuels, Alexander 
 
 Saint, J. M., Heirs of. 
 
 Salisbury, W. T. , Estate of. 
 
 Schoonover, Josej)h , 
 
 Schwoob, Joseph 
 
 Scott, T. J ■. 
 
 Schmalzried, G. P., and Weilcr & Co — 
 
 Schneider, John J 
 
 Scbniidt, John 
 
 Schnerring, Mary, and John Frick 
 
 Schmidt, John G 
 
 Scales, Joseph W 
 
 Scarbrough, Alfred M., and Cin. Jackson 
 Scott, Robert, and J. Patton Anderson... 
 
 Searcy, Granville D 
 
 Serle, Mrs. Francis 
 
 Seldeu, C. J 
 
 6 
 99 
 50 
 127 
 152 
 175 
 214 
 203 
 152 
 149 
 499 
 202 
 505 
 386 
 280 
 241 
 255 
 484 
 303 
 
 189, 190 
 538 
 163 
 285 
 1671 
 201 
 12 
 
 . ■ 516 
 101 
 166 
 186 
 
 427 
 108 
 1152 
 430 
 145 
 89 
 263 
 110 
 162 
 154 
 108 
 232 
 119 
 170 
 396 
 114 
 504 
 270 
 294 
 940 
 205 
 221 
 216 
 160 
 208 
 493 
 270 
 504 
 201 
 264 
 
 C.H. 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 T. 
 
 T. 
 
 T. 
 
 T. 
 
 T. 
 
 T. 
 
 S.G. 
 
 F. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 F. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 F. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 T. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 T. 
 
 S.G. 
 
 L.C. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
 C.H. 
 
List of Proprietors. 2 1 3 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Sevier, John 2()o 
 
 Sewall, p]dward G 1")1 
 
 Seawright, Mrs. Nancy 90 
 
 Sebralle, Chas 240 
 
 Sellers, J. F., W. W. R. McClelland, and 
 
 W. F. Boyle 184 
 
 Semore, Thos 364 
 
 Seckler, J., and J. Bearer 283 
 
 Sevier, John 63 
 
 Selby, Louis 16 
 
 Shanks, Dr. Louis 85 
 
 Shanks, D. W 270 
 
 Shaw, A. B 631 
 
 Shepard, D. A 46, 49 
 
 Shroyer, W. P 122 
 
 Shelby, John 103 
 
 Shelby, M. D 571 
 
 Shelby, Kaney, and K A. Bill 270 
 
 Shall, George. 130 
 
 Shelton, Mrs. N. C 544 
 
 Shelton, A. J ,. 438 
 
 Shepherd, J. H 78 
 
 Shirley, Anna 264 
 
 Shaw, Jane A. L 730 
 
 Shock, Emma M 601 
 
 Sherman, George, and G. W. Taylor 284 
 
 Shipway, Margaret 257, 258 
 
 Shelton, Margaret A 222 
 
 Shelby, Mathew 525 
 
 Sharpe, J. B., and H. C. and C. M. Horton 69 
 
 Sims, Sarah E 589 
 
 Simister, Abel 392 
 
 Simmons, S. R 249 
 
 Sims, L. S. , Heirs of 247 
 
 Singleton, Milton 563 
 
 Sims, John A., and Jas. T. Peyton 55 
 
 Slippy, Catharine 198 
 
 Smith, Fred. W 87 
 
 Smith, Sarah 150 
 
 Smither, G 245 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 325 
 
 C.H. 
 
 202 
 
 T. 
 
 173 
 
 F. 
 
 110 
 
 T. 
 
 736 
 
 F. 
 
 76 
 
 T. 
 
 406 
 
 C.H. 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 311 
 
 L.C. 
 
 540 
 
 C.H. 
 
 288 
 
 C.H. 
 
 500 
 
 C.H. 
 
 288 
 
 F. 
 
 270 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 T. 
 
 999 
 
 T. 
 
 365 
 
 F. 
 
 612 
 
 F. 
 
 139 
 
 C.H. 
 
 80 
 
 T. 
 
 299 
 
 T. 
 
 246 
 
 T. 
 
 138 
 
 C.H. 
 
 340 
 
 C.H. 
 
 310 
 
 T. 
 
 275 
 
 F. 
 
 425 
 
 T. 
 
 249 
 
 T. 
 
 420 
 
 T. 
 
 120 
 
 C.H. 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 972 
 
 T. 
 
 472 
 
 T. 
 
 140 
 
 C.H. 
 
 402 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 96 
 
 S.G. 
 
 1182 
 
 C.H. 
 
 190 
 
 C.H. 
 
 345 
 
 C.H. 
 
214 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. 
 
 Smith wick, A. A 
 
 Smithwick, J. F 
 
 Smith, George W 
 
 Smith, ]Mrs. Henrietta 
 
 Small, H. D., and G. P. Foute 
 
 Small, Charles 
 
 Smith, H 
 
 Smith, Keck & Co 
 
 Smith, Keck & Co 
 
 Smith, O wen 
 
 Smith , Owen 
 
 Smith, Owen 
 
 Smith, Lem 
 
 Smith, HenryG 
 
 Smith, Owen 
 
 Smith, O wen 
 
 Smith, Owen 
 
 Smith, O wen 
 
 Smith , O wen 
 
 Smith, Owen 
 
 Smith , Owen 
 
 Smith, Owen 
 
 Smith, Owen 
 
 Smith, James M, B 
 
 Smith, Wm. J 
 
 Smith, Wm. C 
 
 Smith, Sarah C 
 
 Smith, George Y 
 
 Sneed, William 
 
 Southworth, A. W 288, 
 
 Southworth, Mrs. M. P ne^ 
 
 Southworth, Wm. S 
 
 Sory, M. L 107, 
 
 Sossaman, Edw'd, and W. G. Mcllvain... 
 
 Spivery, J 
 
 Spicer, INIrs. J. E 
 
 Spiegel, Dr. Christian 
 
 Spicer, Caroline P 
 
 Specht, Joseph 
 
 Spech t, Joseph 
 
 LOT. 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 48 
 
 187 
 
 F. 
 
 51 
 
 153 
 
 F. 
 
 59 
 
 631 
 
 F. 
 
 114 
 
 264 
 
 F. 
 
 102 
 
 290 
 
 T. 
 
 155 
 
 132 
 
 T. 
 
 562 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 272 
 
 145 
 
 T. 
 
 271 
 
 168 
 
 T. 
 
 320 
 
 131 
 
 T. 
 
 319 
 
 115 
 
 T. 
 
 339 
 
 200 
 
 T. 
 
 122 
 
 296 
 
 T. 
 
 183 
 
 608 
 
 F. 
 
 321 
 
 130 
 
 T. 
 
 435 
 
 192 
 
 T. 
 
 106 
 
 600 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 410 
 
 247 
 
 T. 
 
 94 
 
 1368 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 111 
 
 600 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 409 
 
 200 
 
 T. 
 
 408 
 
 190 
 
 T. 
 
 112 
 
 600 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 404 
 
 104 
 
 C.H. 
 
 59 
 
 300 
 
 C.H. 
 
 517 
 
 155 
 
 T. 
 
 33 
 
 375 
 
 L.C. 
 
 5061 
 
 206 
 
 T. 
 
 118 
 
 114 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 289 
 
 574 
 
 C.H. 
 
 349 
 
 600 
 
 C.H. 
 
 62 
 
 585 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 108 
 
 430 
 
 T. 
 
 453 
 
 301 
 
 T. 
 
 225 
 
 323 
 
 C.H. 
 
 249 
 
 198 
 
 C.H. 
 
 368 
 
 266 
 
 C.H. 
 
 99 
 
 322 
 
 F. 
 
 137 
 
 342 
 
 T. 
 
 132 
 
 235 
 
 T. 
 
List of Proprietors, 
 
 215 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 ;Spore, Daniel 164 
 
 .Speed, John H., and E. A. Spotswood. ... 04 
 
 Steele, John 137^ 
 
 Steiver, Mary 640 
 
 Sick, John G 536 
 
 ■Smith, Benjamin F 354 
 
 Starke, Junius B 27 
 
 Strain & King 31 
 
 Strange, John P 107 
 
 Stout, W. C 157 
 
 .Stewart, E. P 300 
 
 Stevenson, Susan 380 
 
 Strickland, W. H 13 
 
 Stout, M. J 65 
 
 Street, A., and J. C. Dougherty 123, 124, 125 
 
 Steinkuhl, Jacob 436 
 
 Strange, Mrs. Maria E 53 
 
 Stevens, Ambrose 60 
 
 Stone, E. K , and W. C. Bryant 236 
 
 Stidger, Rowland R 273 
 
 Street, Jas. A 131 , 
 
 Stewart, Thomas 136 
 
 Stoner, I. R., Estate of 578 
 
 Steen, Andrew 572 
 
 Stoddard, John 495 
 
 Stevens, E. P 143 
 
 Stevenson, Mrs. J. H 751 
 
 Stewart, Thos 429 
 
 Stanton, John S 186 
 
 Stewart, Wm. L 570 
 
 Stebbins, John R 245 
 
 Stout, N. H 501 
 
 Stacy, Margaret L 242 
 
 Stewart, James 21 
 
 Steever, Henry C 530 
 
 Staebler, Mary E 370 
 
 Storz, John, and David Scheehle 247^^ 
 
 Stovall, George A 60^ 
 
 Stratton, John T (part of lot) 299 
 
 Stocksiager, Geo. K 439 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 136 
 
 T. 
 
 520 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 220 
 
 F. 
 
 136 
 
 T. 
 
 162 
 
 T. 
 
 222 
 
 T. 
 
 300 
 
 C.H. 
 
 276 
 
 C.H. 
 
 225 
 
 C.H. 
 
 330 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1200 
 
 C.H. 
 
 229 
 
 C.H. 
 
 150 
 
 S.G. 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 934 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 176 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 191 
 
 C.H. 
 
 105 
 
 C.H. 
 
 189 
 
 T. 
 
 175 
 
 T. 
 
 286 
 
 C.H. 
 
 234 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 216 
 
 T. 
 
 144 
 
 C.H. 
 
 386 
 
 T. 
 
 704 
 
 F. 
 
 1020 
 
 T. 
 
 152 
 
 F. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 130 
 
 F. 
 
 100 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 304 
 
 F. 
 
 195 
 
 T. 
 
 210 
 
 F. 
 
 568 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 1644 
 
 C.H. 
 
 108 
 
 T. 
 
2l6 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETOKS. NO. 
 
 Starke, E. Temple 
 
 Sterling, La vinia 
 
 Stewart, AVm. and Meacham 
 
 Schilling, Jacob and Ebeler 
 
 Schm uck, Louis 
 
 Sullivan, Mrs. Ann E.. 
 
 Schurmeyer, John F 
 
 Sutton, Joshua B 
 
 Smith, Louisa, and Yates 
 
 Strother, Charles H 
 
 Swann, Orange 
 
 Svveetland, Mrs. M. J 
 
 Sweet, F 
 
 Swayne, John T 198, 
 
 Swan, Wm. G 
 
 Swan, Paralee 
 
 Swoope, Chas. C. and Elizabeth T 
 
 Shepard, C. R 
 
 Sanford, Joseph 
 
 Spivey, Wm. V 
 
 Schafer, Fred. C 
 
 Sullivan, Charles L 
 
 Scott, R. and Mrs. Anderson 
 
 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. B. P 
 
 Stewart, Andrew and Hugh 
 
 Sutton, Mrs. Emily 
 
 Taylor, Arthur K 
 
 Taylor, G,, and H, Fitzgerald 
 
 Taylor, A. B 
 
 Taylor, Wiley P 
 
 Taylor, John H 58,61 
 
 Taylor, John F., and J. F. Thomas 
 
 Taylor, Geo. W., and Geo. Sherman 
 
 Taylor, Wm. H 
 
 Taylor, Ann E 
 
 Taylor, Emily, and Wm. W. Rootes 
 
 Taylor, Wm. F 
 
 Tailor, Mrs. N. E 
 
 Tate, Samuel 
 
 LOT. 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 579* 
 
 210 
 
 T. 
 
 180 
 
 96 
 
 S.G. 
 
 80 
 
 910 
 
 L.C. 
 
 348 
 
 259 
 
 T. 
 
 .6751 
 
 96 
 
 C.H, 
 
 42 
 
 126 
 
 F. 
 
 651 
 
 144 
 
 T. 
 
 650 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 4 
 
 150 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 723 
 
 130 
 
 T. 
 
 332 
 
 306 
 
 C.H. 
 
 56 
 
 171 
 
 F. 
 
 409 
 
 108 
 
 C.H. 
 
 245 
 
 560 
 
 T. 
 
 18 
 
 112 
 
 S.G. 
 
 17 
 
 108 
 
 S.G. 
 
 7 
 
 500 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 494 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 653 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 628 
 
 130 
 
 T. 
 
 658 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 441 
 
 117 
 
 T. 
 
 469 
 
 457 
 
 F. 
 
 625 
 
 102 
 
 T. 
 
 81 
 
 644 
 
 L.C. 
 
 263 
 
 360 
 
 T. 
 
 24 
 
 1225 
 
 C.H, 
 
 32 
 
 225 
 
 C.H. 
 
 70 
 
 312 
 
 T. 
 
 9 
 
 441 
 
 S.G. 
 
 ,61 
 
 812 
 
 F. 
 
 182 
 
 703 
 
 F. 
 
 284 
 
 310 
 
 T. 
 
 220 
 
 275 
 
 T. 
 
 523 
 
 150 
 
 T. 
 
 576 
 
 375 
 
 C.H. 
 
 33 
 
 670 
 
 C.H.C. 
 
 156 
 
 169 
 
 T. 
 
 12 
 
 1122 
 
 C.H. 
 
List of Propinetors. 2 1 7 
 
 NAMES OF TROPRIETOKS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 
 
 Tate, Wm 46 350 C.H. 
 
 Tanner, W.G 61 242 C.H. 
 
 Tate, J. M 184 281 C.H. 
 
 Tanney, O. G 22 80 F. 
 
 Tanner, J. G '.. 107 208 F. 
 
 Talmadge, Henry 48G 262 C.H. 
 
 Tate, J. H .'. 300 99 T. 
 
 Tagg, Joseph 180 952 F. 
 
 Taft, Frank 574 710 T. 
 
 Talbert, Maria Louis 203 138 S.G. 
 
 Taggart, Eleanor J 761 200 C.H. 
 
 Tally, Cellie 18^ 266 C.H.C. 
 
 Tait, David 524^ 156 T. 
 
 Temple, M. M 70 360 C.H. 
 
 Teufel, Joseph 328 109 C.H. 
 
 Teufel, Xaver 329 99 C.H. 
 
 Terry, J. C, and B. D. Hodges 181 750 F. 
 
 Teager, George W 590 160 T. 
 
 Thumel, Dr. A 334, 335 191 C.H. 
 
 Thoma, George 346 222 T. 
 
 Thompson, Waddy 4 455 C.H.C, 
 
 Thompson, Eose P 615 532 T. 
 
 Thomas, John H 534 155 T. 
 
 Thomas, DavidD 249 162 F. 
 
 Thompson, Harry 686 96 T. 
 
 Titus, Frazer 159, 160 650 C.H. 
 
 Townsend, David H 100 1160 C.H. 
 
 Townsmann, Carl F 199 125 T. 
 
 Torian, K. T 109,111 399 T. 
 
 Toof, John S. and Agnes 201 528 F. 
 
 Townsend, G. G. and J 11 371 >S.G. 
 
 Tounsley, Louis 297 138 T. 
 
 Tobin, JohnP 594 154 C.H. 
 
 Tozer, Charles C 515 158 T. 
 
 Treadwell, A. C 25,26 385 T. 
 
 Trigg, John 620,621 780 C.H. 
 
 Trotter, G. W 51 175 T. 
 
 Trice, T. H 151 270 F. 
 
 Trader, Mrs. M. C, and Mrs. E. K. New- 
 
 som 54 247 F. 
 
2i8 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Trezevant, N. M 221 
 
 Trice, Sarah W 215 
 
 Trudeau, Louisa 299 
 
 Trezevant, John T 21 
 
 Trezevant, B. R 657 
 
 Trout, Thomas 190 
 
 Trenary, Washburn 479 
 
 Turley, T. J 5 
 
 Tufts, Peter E 250 
 
 Tufts, James 186 
 
 Tucker, T. J 295 
 
 Tucker, Mary E. and Agnes W., and S. 
 
 E.Coffee s ^23 
 
 Turner, Chas. W 255 
 
 Tuggle, John J., Estate of 44 
 
 Turner, Wm. P 483 
 
 Thompson, Thomas T 454 
 
 Thompson, Jacob 116 
 
 Tally, Frank 100 
 
 Thornton, Gustavus A 582 
 
 Tanner, Jacob J f.... 584 
 
 Teague, Thomas and Henry 505, 511 
 
 Toof, Stephen C 105 
 
 Uhlmann, Julia 509^ 
 
 Underwood, A. G., Heirs of. 171 
 
 Underbill, Robert B 514i 
 
 Upshaw, James R 72 
 
 Urquhart, Edward 17 
 
 Vance, C. C 82 
 
 VanHorne, John 603 
 
 Vaden, W. P 81 
 
 Vancleve, Harry L 263 
 
 VanPelt, Henry 294 
 
 VanBrocklin, B. F 296 
 
 Vergison, R 272 
 
 Verser, John L 277 
 
 Venable, Joseph and Gilbert M 59^ 
 
 Vollintine, H 178, 179 
 
 Voarna, Fred 564^ 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 976 
 
 T. 
 
 278 
 
 F. 
 
 110 
 
 T. 
 
 544 
 
 S.G. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 172 
 
 T. 
 
 228 
 
 T. 
 
 1200 
 
 T. 
 
 180 
 
 C.H. 
 
 165 
 
 T. 
 
 127 
 
 T. 
 
 600 
 
 F. 
 
 115 
 
 F. 
 
 325 
 
 S.G. 
 
 93 
 
 F. 
 
 222 
 
 T. 
 
 1138 
 
 L.C. 
 
 144 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 367 
 
 T. 
 
 225 
 
 C.H. 
 
 374 
 
 T. 
 
 216 
 
 F. 
 
 126 
 
 T. 
 
 240 
 
 T. 
 
 80 
 
 T. 
 
 352 
 
 C.H. 
 
 330 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 288 
 
 C.H. 
 
 165 
 
 C.H. 
 
 840 
 
 T. 
 
 112 
 
 C.H. 
 
 238 
 
 C.H. 
 
 149 
 
 T. 
 
 135 
 
 C.H. 
 
 243 
 
 F. 
 
 479 
 
 C.H.C 
 
 377 
 
 T. 
 
 150 
 
 C.H. 
 
List of Proprietors. 219 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 
 
 Yoorhies, Cornelius Y 285 287 F. 
 
 Vcegeli, John W 578 500 T. 
 
 Watkins, E. F 3 1107 C.H. 
 
 Walker, Henry C 40 1155 C.H. 
 
 Walker, S.P 239 1120 C.H. 
 
 Walker, Samuel P 284, 286, 287 1137 C.H. 
 
 Walker, Samuel P 1 262 Col'd. 
 
 Walker & Barnett 216 1160 C.H. 
 
 Walker, Wm., and A. Warren 297, 298 489 C.H. 
 
 Walker, Mrs. L. M 257 228 C.H. 
 
 Walker, Harriet 105 162 Col'd. 
 
 AVatson, Samuel 19 627 C.H.C. 
 
 Watson, Mrs. P 493 262 C.H. 
 
 Watson, Elbert L 583i- 413 T. 
 
 Wallace, R 108 208 C.H. 
 
 Wallace, A 176 400 C.H. 
 
 Wallace, Samuel R 70 262 S.G. 
 
 Wallace, R D 599 270 C.H. 
 
 Wade, Henry 165 228 C.H. 
 
 Want, \y 222 280 C.H. 
 
 Waldran, W. B 549, 550, 552, 553 526 C.H. 
 
 Warner, S. A 76 207 T. 
 
 Warner, F.L 315 240 C.H. 
 
 Warner, W. C, and Anton F. Heuer 413 240 C.H. 
 
 AVare, John, Heirs of. 442 262 C.H. 
 
 Wachter, George, and D. Zweifel 109 520 F. 
 
 Walton, E. J 512 262 C.H. 
 
 Walt, R. P 623 787 C.H. 
 
 Waymon, Mrs. Ann 41 240 F. 
 
 Waggener, J. H 254 493 T. 
 
 Wareham,John 185 198 T. 
 
 AVasson, Garrison 414 320 C.H. 
 
 AYard, R. D 378 437 C.H. 
 
 AVard, Josephine 89 430 C.H. 
 
 AVasson, J. B 666 240 C.H. 
 
 AVait, Francis 471 174 T. 
 
 AVaymon, Kate 5421 108 T. 
 
 AA^ard, Miss Jane, and Thos. B. Coffey 389 235 T. 
 
 AVallace, Mrs. Elizabeth A 736 144 F. 
 
220 
 
 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPEIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 West, J. H 3:^8 
 
 "Webb, Mrs. Arianne 115 
 
 Wells, Wm. E 265 
 
 Withei-spoon, A. D 20 
 
 Weller, Jacob 12B 
 
 Wells, R. H 381 
 
 Wesche, F 267 
 
 Webb, W. H 219 
 
 Webb, S. M 195 
 
 Wendlandt, John 279 
 
 Weld, John B 585 
 
 Wetmore, N. D 113 
 
 Weidt, George 252 
 
 Weatherford, Joseph S 527 
 
 Webber, Ed. B. and Mrs. N. M 208 
 
 Wellford, J. L 60^ 
 
 AVebb, Wni. J., and Mrs. S. E. Green... 209 
 
 Weatherbee, Elizabeth 600 
 
 Wehruni, Louis 97 
 
 Welch, Michael D 45 
 
 Wells, Caroline 101 
 
 Weatherford, George K 192 
 
 Wheatley, Seth 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 
 
 Wheatley, Lawson 27 
 
 White, Joseph 323 
 
 Whitfield, F. E 17 
 
 White, Joseph 39 
 
 Wheaton, A. G 171 
 
 Whitfield, Mrs. Emma 57 
 
 Whipple, Anson 85 
 
 White, A. J 388 
 
 Wheeler, A. J 502 
 
 Whipple, Ann 91 
 
 Whitelaw, Wm 187^ 
 
 White, Dr. Josiah 177 
 
 Whitten, Susan, and W. V. Busby, and 
 
 K. Pollock 748 
 
 White, Henry 362 
 
 White, Wm. H. and Emily 57 
 
 White, Clark C 274 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 88 
 
 C.H. 
 
 456 
 
 F. 
 
 457 
 
 C.H. 
 
 271 
 
 C.H. 
 
 260 
 
 T. 
 
 89 
 
 T. 
 
 170 
 
 T. 
 
 200 
 
 F. 
 
 426 
 
 F. 
 
 368 
 
 C.H. 
 
 270 
 
 C.H. 
 
 202 
 
 T. 
 
 124 
 
 F. 
 
 189 
 
 T. 
 
 306 
 
 F. 
 
 175 
 
 S.G. 
 
 366 
 
 F. 
 
 96 
 
 F. 
 
 238 
 
 C.H. 
 
 505 
 
 C.H.C, 
 
 108 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 120 
 
 S.G. 
 
 1041 
 
 T. 
 
 175 
 
 T. 
 
 117 
 
 C.H. 
 
 450 
 
 T. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 325 
 
 C.H. 
 
 316 
 
 F. 
 
 560 
 
 T. 
 
 138 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 221 
 
 F. 
 
 238 
 
 F. 
 
 96 
 
 S.G. 
 
 170 
 
 C.H. 
 
 150 
 
 T. 
 
 250 
 
 S.G. 
 
 432 
 
 F. 
 
List of PropiHetors. 
 
 221 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 
 
 Whitaker, Wm 95 
 
 White, Grin 497 
 
 AVheaton, S. M 60 
 
 AVilliams, Mrs. Nannie H 1000 
 
 AVilliams, Joseph 11 2 
 
 Wilkin.son, T. W 54 
 
 Wilson, David 296 
 
 AVicks, M. J 357 
 
 AVilson, David 412 
 
 Williams, E 62 
 
 Williamson, F. H 97 
 
 Witt, M. M 174 
 
 Wiley, John 557, 558 
 
 Wilkins, Wm. G., Heirs of. 3 
 
 Wilson, George 69 
 
 Winford, A. G 56 
 
 Winchester, George 131 
 
 Winston, Helen M 14 
 
 Williams, J. Rush 256 
 
 Williamson, S. B 258 
 
 Williamson, A. G 683 
 
 Williams, Dr. J. A 286 
 
 Wills, P. B 708 
 
 Winn, K. J. B. L 202 
 
 Wiegaud, Mary 211 
 
 Williams, Mrs. Thos. H 213 
 
 Williams, W. A 193 
 
 Williams, Henry G 323 
 
 Wintter, Dietrich 143 
 
 Williams, Eobert H 461 
 
 Williamson, James M 59 
 
 Wilton, Harry C 622i 
 
 Williams, George L 577 
 
 Wilson, S. A., and H. M. James 661 
 
 Wilson, Dr. A 428 
 
 Williamson, James M 77 
 
 Williams, J. D 78 
 
 Williams, Ann 533 
 
 Wilkerson, Jno. W., and Jas. D. Quigley 722 
 
 Williams, Henry B. S 466 
 
 NO. FT. 
 
 SEC. 
 
 238 
 
 F. 
 
 110 
 
 T. 
 
 304 
 
 T. 
 
 96 
 
 T. 
 
 1120 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1134 
 
 C.H. 
 
 220 
 
 C.H. 
 
 307 
 
 C.H. 
 
 171 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 S.G. 
 
 288 
 
 T. 
 
 94 
 
 T. 
 
 263 
 
 C.H. 
 
 322 
 
 F. 
 
 128 
 
 F. 
 
 382 
 
 T. 
 
 272 
 
 F. 
 
 365 
 
 F. 
 
 525 
 
 T. 
 
 1105 
 
 T. 
 
 337 
 
 C.H. 
 
 348 
 
 T. 
 
 323 
 
 C.H. 
 
 673 
 
 F. 
 
 246 
 
 F. 
 
 396 
 
 F. 
 
 490 
 
 F. 
 
 175 
 
 T. 
 
 306 
 
 F. 
 
 100 
 
 C.H. 
 
 207 
 
 Col'd. 
 
 390 
 
 C.H. 
 
 160 
 
 F. 
 
 486 
 
 C.H. 
 
 262 
 
 C.H. 
 
 1287 
 
 L.C. 
 
 1258 
 
 L.C. 
 
 150 
 
 F. 
 
 280 
 
 C.H. 
 
 287 
 
 T. 
 
222 Elmwood Cemetery. 
 
 NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 
 
 Wilson, AVm.P 18 364 L.C. 
 
 Worley, Caleb 88 378 C.H. 
 
 Woodward, J. M 132 252 C.H. 
 
 Woodward, O. C 98,99 648 T. 
 
 Woodworth, J 195 i26 C.H. 
 
 Wooldridge, E 224 238 C.H. 
 
 Wormeley, Ralph 241 436 C.H. 
 
 Woods, Elizabeth S 489 262 C.H. 
 
 Worsham, J. J 16, 91, 92, 93 752 T. 
 
 Woltering, J. W 37 220 F. 
 
 Wood, Albert M (3 375 C.H.C. 
 
 Wood, Mrs. Laura 570 193 C.H. 
 
 Woodruff, Elizabeth 550 132 T. 
 
 AVilliamson, Milton T 595 262 T. 
 
 Wiggin, Norris J 70 356 L.C. 
 
 Wood, Wra. A., Martin and Hill 79 1075 L.C. 
 
 Woodruff, Amos 40 578 L.C. 
 
 Wray, Mrs. C. M 172 189 T. 
 
 Wright, Stephen H. P 560 140 C.H. 
 
 Wright, Archibald 75 450 C.H.C. 
 
 Wray, James R... 2 271 F, 
 
 Wynne, Mrs. Sarah T. 185 273 C.H. 
 
 Wright, Thomas J , 42 417 L.C. 
 
 Word, E. H., and Beard 4 472 S.G. 
 
 Yates, Meredith 83 299 T. 
 
 Yerby, Melinda 247 228 T. 
 
 Yerger, Edwin M 333 323 T. 
 
 Young, Misses 244 308 C.H. 
 
 Young, Dr. James 7 451 C.H. 
 
 Young, Rev. James 322 160 C.H. 
 
 Yongue, Dr. James 110 175 F. 
 
 Yates, Adaline and Smith 4 150 Col'd. 
 
 Yahrling, John 283 133 T. 
 
 Zachariah, Margaret A 202 110 T. 
 
 Zausch, Henrietta 38 209 F. 
 
 Zent, John 200 336 F. 
 
 Zweifel, D., andGeo. Wachter 109 520 F. 
 
 Number of proprietors March 1st, 1874 1,671 
 
 Number of interments to March 1st, 1874 13,258 
 
CURBING REGULATIONS. 
 
 NOTE. — Lots in Elmwood may be inclosed with stone "curbing" 
 under the following restrictions and regulations : 
 
 1. The curbing must be of approved material and of good stone, 
 and in every case on the boundary line of adjoining lots, one-half on 
 each lot. 
 
 2. There shall be no double curbing, or posts side by side on 
 adjoining lots. 
 
 3. No curbing already perfected and put down shall be removed 
 or changed without the consent of the lot-owner. 
 
 4. The owners of adjacent lots should share equally the cost of that 
 part of the curbing common to both lots. 
 
 The object of these rules is to perpetuate the symmetrical collocation 
 of lots, and preserve the order and beauty of lots in the Cemetery. 
 The Company reserves the right to mediate and settle disputes between 
 lot-ownel's. 
 
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