NE-36:  NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN.  Percy Priest Lake Property

 

IN 2003, DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEYORS ATTEMPTED TO LOCATE A “FUQUA CEMETERY” AS IDENTIFIED ON A WEB SITE CALLED topozone.com.  A POSSIBLE SITE FOR THIS CEMETERY WAS LOCATED BUT  NO TOMBSTONES WERE VISIBLE.   IN THE PAST YEAR A LARGER AND CLEARER MAP WAS OBTAINED FROM  topozone.com.  On  JANUARY 21, 2005, ANOTHER VISIT BY CEMETERY SURVEYORS WAS MADE,  WITH PERMISSION,  TO EXPLORE THE AREA ON THE PERCY PRIEST RESERVOIR PROPERTY.  ON THIS VISIT, THE TOP AND SIDES OF A WHAT-SEEMED-TO-BE A BOX TOMB WERE FOUND IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA PINPOINTED BY THE TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP.

 

RESEARCH IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY TO DETERMINE THE NAMES OF PREVIOUS LAND OWNERS AND TO SEEK ASSISTANCE FROM FUQUA DESCENDANTS TO LEARN THE NAMES OF FAMILY MEMBERS WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY.

 

SURVEY REPORT  MARCH 28, 2005

 

Additions to Fuqua Cemetery (Removed).  NE-36

 

Historical information was sent to the Davidson County Cemetery Survey project by Fran Nichols.  She confirmed that the cemetery was on Fuqua property.  Two graves from this cemetery were removed and re-buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.  Mt. Olivet Interment records:

    Adolphus Adelbert Fuqua. Original burial Jan. 26, 1956.

       Removed from the Pleasant Hill Road site to Mt. Olivet

       on November 29, 1972

 

    William Hart Fuqua.  Died 1916.

        Removed and reburied at Mt. Olivet on May 12, 1932

        (also known as Prof. Mack Fuqua)

 

The tract of land was acquired in the J. Percy Priest Dame and Reservoir Project, situated at the intersection of Elm Hill Pike and Pleasant Hill Road.  .

 

Obituary. Nashville Banner, January 25, 1956

“ FUQUA -  Wednesday, February 25, 1956, at 7:15 at the home of his son Douglas Fuqua, Pleasant Hill Road, Donelson,  Adolphus A. Fuqua, age 81 years.  Survived by wife, Mrs. Annie Waggoner Fuqua… Remains at his home on Pleasant Hill Road.  Funeral from the Whitsitt Baptist Church, Thursday afternoon at 2:00 pm…  Interment

at family cemetery.”

 

 

Additions to Fuqua Cemetery (Removed) web site listing:  February 2008