PROVIDENCE CHURCH CEMETERY
BE-21: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN. Todd Pries Drive
6 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
GREER Born; 1806 Died: 1869
Front Inscription: JAMES L. GREER/ BORN/ NOV. 25, 1806/ DIED/ AUG. 5, 1869
GREER Born: 1835 Died: 1855
Front Inscription: GREEN B. GREER/ BORN/ JULY 30TH, 1835/ DIED/ OCT. 2ND 1855/ AGED 20 YEARS/ 2 MONTHS/ & 2 DAYS
GREER Born: 1806 Died: 1849
Front Inscription: HANNAH/ WIFE OF/ JAMES L. GREER/ BORN/ JAN. 25, 1806/ DIED/ JUNE 2, 1849
HARDIN Born: 1808 Died: 1838
Front Inscription: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ MRS. ZANY HARDIN/ BORN MARCH 23, 1808/ DIED APRIL 2, 1838
DEMOSS Died: 1856
Front Inscription: ELIZABETH/ WIFE OF/ THOMAS DEMOSS/ DIED APRIL 24, 1856/ AGED 51 YEARS
DEMOSS Born: 1844 Died: 1847
Front Inscription: MARTHA A./ BORN AGT. THE/ 15 1844/ DIED OCT. THE 5. 1847/ DU. OF/ J. S. AND/ D. DEMOSS
SITE SURVEYED APRIL 16, 2000
Re-visit was made to the Providence Church Cemetery on January 14, 2004, to look for one additional tombstone reported to be in the graveyard and as well as for the “Hardgrave” military tombstones. On January 14, 2004, the tombstone for Louis DeMoss, recorded in 1995, by Charles E. Doggett, was not visible, as it had not been visible in 2000. In a publication, entitled “Nashville Hardgrave Cemetery: 1995 Report,” Mr. Doggett recorded this inscription: “In Memory of Louis DeMoss. Born Oct. 1753 – Died. Sept. 1820.” On the cover of this publication was a photograph of the military markers for Francis Hardgrave and Skelton Hardgrave. On January 14, 2004, Cemetery Survey Volunteers found information, on a paper notice, about the removal of the Hardgrave military tombstones from the Providence Church Cemetery:
“The DAR obtained military stones for Skelton and his father Francis Hardgrave, in 1941,
and erected (them) here. The Hardgrave Family Cemetery was later discovered across the
river in what is now Horseshoe Bend development. In 1999, both stones were moved to
the correct cemetery. Francis’ original stone is still there (Hardgrave Cemetery) and barely
readable. Skelton is believed to be buried in New Orleans.”
On February 29, 2004, Davidson County Cemetery Survey volunteers visited the site of the Hardgrave Cemetery, Williamson County, Tennessee. The two military markers for Francis and Skelton Hardgrave were located in the cemetery with many other family tombstones. To view the tombstone inscriptons in the Hardgrave Cemetery, Williamson County, Tennessee, on the Internet, enter the name: Hardgrave Cemetery. Then on the menu, click-on Horseshoe Bend, inscriptions by Charles E. Doggett.
Report. March 1, 2004
IN
MEMORY OF
LOUIS DEMOSS
BORN OCT. 1753
DIED SEPT. 1820
On June 30, 2004, Judy Campbell, a descendant of LOUIS DEMOSS, reported to the Davidson County Cemetery Survey that she had visited the Providence Church Cemetery and found his tombstone in an obscure place. Cemetery Survey volunteers visited the graveyard on July 7, 2004, and indeed the tombstone was located and the inscription was clearly legible, as recorded above.
Addition to the Providence Church Cemetery web site listing. August 2004.