ABSOLEM GLEAVES CEMETERY

 

HE-22:  NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN.  CENTRAL PIKE

 

This cemetery was surveyed in the Davidson County Cemetery Survey on May 25, 2001.  At that time the cemetery was completely overgrown and in poor condition.  In February 2005, Gleaves family descendants, headed by Owen C. Gleaves, cleared and greatly improved the condition of the cemetery. To see the names of all volunteers involved in this project, please click-on “Thomas Gleaves Cemetery” which was cleared by family members at the same time. 

 

Davidson County Cemetery surveyors returned on February 26, 2005, and re-surveyed the tombstones and inscriptions. George Wilkerson mapped & counted the fieldstones.

 

4 TOMBSTONES WITH INSCRIPTIONS

29 FIELDSTONES

 

GLEAVES

Front Inscription:  ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ABSOLEM/ GLEAVES/ AND/ CATHERINE/ HIS WIFE

Side Inscription:  CATHERINE/ GLEAVES. DIED 5 JULY/ 1866/ AGED 82 YEARS

Side Inscription:  ABSOLEM/ GLEAVES. DIED 18 SEPT. 1834/ AGED 53 YEARS

 

GLEAVES                   Born: ?             Died: 1834

Front Inscription: ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF/ ABSOLEM GLEAVES ESQ./ DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ SEPTEMBER THE 18/ 1834/ AGED 53 YEARS

 

WOOLFORD              Born; 1802       Died: 1863

Front Inscription: MARY C. WOOLFORD/ BORN/ NOV. 10, 1802/ DIED/ JUNE 25, 1873/ FAITHFUL SERVANT IN CHRIST/ SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD

 

McCAULEY               Born: 1830       Died: 1905

Front Inscription: AUNT NANCY. McCAULEY/ BORN/ MAR. 15, 1830/ DIED/ DEC. 4, 1905/ A LOVING WIFE A MOTHER DEAR/ LIES BURIED HERE

Footstone: Yes Footstone Inscription: ANM

 

SITE RE-SURVEYED  FEBRUARY 26, 2005                      

 

Historical Information. 

On April 18, 2005, George Wilkerson provided the Davidson County Cemetery Survey project with information about Mary C. Woolford.  In the 1850 US Census of Davidson County, Mary C. Woolford and her husband Thomas H. Woolford were residing near the James T. Gleaves, F. R. Gleaves and B. F. Gleaves families.  Both were listed as born in New York. Thomas Woolford was identified as a baker.  

 

UPDATE REPORT  MAY 7, 2005