BE-12: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN, DEAD END OF MEADOW LANE
2 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
ROBERTSON Died: 1833
Front inscription: GEO. F. SON OF PEYTON &/ ELLEN ROBERTSON/ DIED MAY 10, 1833/ AGED ONE MONTH & 2/ DAYS
Footstone: YES Footstone inscription: NONE
HICKS Died: 1832
Front inscription: THIS MONUMENT IS CONSECRATED/ TO THE MEMORY/ OF/NANCY W. HICKS/ DAUGHTER OF JOHN & DORCAS DAVIS/ AND/ WIFE OF EDWARD DICKSON HICKS/ WHO DIED 13TH MARCH 1832/ IN THE 26TH YEAR OF HER AGE AND/ SECOND OF HER MARRIAGE/ SHE LEFT NUMEROUS FRIENDS AND RELATIVES/ A TENDER INFANT AND DISCONSOLATE HUSBAND/ TO MOURN THE UNTIMELY LOSS OF/ A WOMAN OF SWEET AND PLACABLE TEMPER/ A DAUGHTER AFFECTIONATE AND DUTIFUL/ A MOTHER FULL OF NATURAL TENDERNESS/ AND A WIFE FONDLY DEVOTED TO HER HUSBAND/ HER HEART WAS VIRTUES SWEET ABODE/ WITH CHRISTIAN CHARITY COMBINED/ 'TWAS NOT HER WILL BUT THINE O GOD/ TO WHICH SHE FULLY WAS RESIGNED.
UNKNOWN
Front inscription: ILLEGIBLE
UNKNOWN
Front inscription: ILLEGIBLE
SITE SURVEYED MARCH 25, 2000
Addition to Davis Cemetery. BE-12
This cemetery was recorded in the Davidson County Cemetery Survey on March 23, 2000. Only two of the four tombstones were legible.
In October 1977, Verla Gene Hodges recorded inscriptions from four tombstones in the Davis Cemetery as a member of the Research Committee for the Bellevue-Historical Society. This transcript was donated to the Tennessee State Library and Archives. The following inscriptions were recorded at that time:
Sacred to the Memory of
John Davis Horton
Infant Son of Joseph W. and Sophia W. Horton
Born December 22, 1830
Died June 19, 1832
Sacred be this monument to the Memory of Susan P., wife of S. S. Rayburn,
daughter of John and Dorcas Davis, who died 4th of December 1831, at her
residence in Nashville in the 21st year of her age and 2nd year of marriage
having many friends and acquaintances to mourn her loss. She was a dutiful daughter, a kind and everloving and affectionate wife – She lived beloved,
died lamented by all who knew her.
Such is life – a breath a span
A moment quickly gone from thee
What is dead Oh, mortal man,
Thy entrance on eternity
This monument was placed over
By her disconsolate husband
Tribute to her many virtues
Of the Best of Wives who never
Gave him pain but when she died.
In 1977, Verla Hodges noted the following: “This is a small cemetery, with a rock wall surrounding it, most of which has fallen in. Three of the graves are box type, with sides and a top and the inscription written on the top. George F. Robertson, infant son of Peyton and Ellen (Davis) Robertson, was a grandson of James Robertson.
Additions to Davis Cemetery web site listing: February 2008
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