MORRIS SHANE CEMETERY
HE-35: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN, HOGGETT FORD ROAD
2 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
10 FIELDSTONES
SMITH
Front Inscription: SARAH J/ DAU OF/ ED & M/ SMITH/ BORN
SMITH
Front Inscription: MARY A/ DAU OF/ ED & M/ SMITH/ BORN
SITE SURVEYED JANUARY 11, 2003
Additions to be added after Survey Site date
Re-visit to the cemetery. 12-26-2003.
Location of an additional tombstone.
Sacred/ to the/ Memory of/ William Pennuel/
Born 8 of Sep 1838/ Departed this/ life Nov 1839
Condition of the cemetery: Overgrown. Many grave depressions.
Many broken stones. No visible tombstones for Morris or Phoebe Shane.
Historical Information
Provided by Debie Cox, Archivist, Metro Archives
November 2003
“Family tradition states that Morris Shane ran away from his home in Ireland when very young. He is said to have sailed to the port of New Orleans and from there made his way up the Natchez Trace to the Cumberland settlements in Nashville. He was listed in North Carolina records as being in the first group of 68 settlers still alive in 1784. The first settlers had arrived by May of 1780. Shane married Phoebe Castleman about 1785 and they were parents of at least 12 children… In 1790, Shane purchased 140 acres on Stones River from his father in law Jacob Castleman. It was on the Stones River tract that Morris and Phoebe raised their family and lived out their lives. Morris died in 1821 and Phoebe died in 1836 and both were buried in the family cemetery on their property.”
Metro Archives. Davidson County Court Loose Papers. Ca 1880-1905
“Be it ordered by the county court that the portion of the Hoggets Ferry Road from W. H. Binkleys gate, 4th district running 90 or 100 yards in the direction of old road bed be so changed as to protect the grave of Morris Shane said road having diverged so far from its original bed that it is encroaching upon his family grave and has already, almost, by the cutting of the wheels of vehicles exposed the coffin of Morris Shane an old pioneer of Davidson County… R. L. Haldy, J.P.”
Report. 3-2-2004