KI-03: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN.   Old Harding Pike

 

47 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS

 

ALEXANDER, FRED  BORN ? - 11-30-1890   SON OF WM. ALEXANDER

ALEXANDER INFANT.  BORN ? - 11-24-1895  DAU. OF WM. ALEXANDER

 

ALLISON, A. M. (MACK)  1880 - 1937

ALLISON, MAGGIE B.  1885 - 1939

 

BROWN, J. T.   12-18-1894 - 3-28-1905

 

GREER, JOHNSON LINTON  1865 - 1912

GREER, MARTHA/MARDIE T.  8-1-1863 - 4-2-1866    DAU. OF NATHAN G. B. GREER

GREER, MARGARET   12-21-1845 - 1-29-1879   DAU. OF W.J. &  JARUTIO  J. LINTON. 

                 WIFE OF NATHAN G. B. GREER

GREER, NATHAN G. B.  2-2-1832 - 9-10-1883

GREER, ALLEY/SALEY  1-15-1876 - 6-16-1876    DAU. OF NATHAN G.B. GREER

GREER, WILLIAM J. LINTON  4-28-1875 - 5-6-1875   SON OF NATHAN G.B. GREER

 

JONES, ELMER T.   11-9-1920 - 2-8-1970

JONES, KATHERINE A.   3-13-1919 - DIED ?

JONES, MARGARET C.   10-31-1943 - 11-1-1943

 

JOSLIN, ANNA LOU LINTON   1876 - 1948

JOSLIN, ANNA LOUISE  1902 - 1906

JOSLIN, CHARLES L.  1873 - 1929

JOSLIN, KATIE ANDERSON 1906 - 1907

JOSLIN, KATYE LINTON  1911 - 1934

 

LINTON, EUSTACIA   9-6-1875 - 10-14-1877  DAU. OF W.J. & E.A. LINTON

LINTON, EUSTACIA ANNE HUGHES   1-5-1905 - 3-26-1905

LINTON, HOOPER   7-10-1880 - 12-11-1971

LINTON, IDA M.  12-11-1887 - 11-7-1972

LINTON, J. A.   12-27-1871 - 3-23-1936

LINTON, JARUTHA  5-7-1896 - 9-14-1897   DAU. OF W.J. & M.F. LINTON

LINTON, JARUTIO JANE   12-8-1825 -  7-10-1853   WIFE OF W.J. LINTON

LINTON, JOHNSON V.   7-14-1844 - 11-14-1909

LINTON, J. V.  1-8-1884 - 11-8-1895   SON OF W.J. & M.F. LINTON

LINTON, KATIE ANDERSON  2-22-1851 - 7-5-1916  

LINTON, LENA M.   5-24-1878 - 10-12-1879 DAU. OF W.J. & M.F. LINTON

LINTON, LUCY MINOR   6-10-1858 - 7-16-1876  DAU. OF W.J. & E.A. LINTON

LINTON, MARGARET   4-7-1803 - 10-9-1878  WIFE OF SILAS LINTON, Sr.

LINTON, MARY FRANCES 5-26-1852 - 5-21-1929  

LINTON, MARY JANE   9-15-1834 - 6-25-1855  WIFE OF W.J. LINTON

                 DAUGHTER OF ELIZABETH & P. W. MOSS

LINTON, MATTIE K.   9-9-1872 - 12-31-1945

LINTON, SILAS   8-8-1799 - 8-1-1873

LINTON, SILAS, SR.  10-30-1848 - 8-3-1916

LINTON, SILAS, JR.   12-25-1873 - 9-26-1914

LINTON, SYDNEY H.  8-5-1868  - 7-27-1895   SON OF W.J. & E.A. LINTON

LINTON, THOMAS H.  5-17-1853 - 5-30-1855  SON OF W.J. & JARUTIO LINTON

LINTON, WILLIE R.   4-19-1862 - 11-2-1877   DAU. OF W.J. & E.A. LINTON

LINTON, W. J.   3-4-1850 - 7-7-1918  

LINTON, W. J.   10-22-1822 - 11-29-1885

 

McPHERSON, SILAS L.    8-27-1893 - 2-20-1955

McPHERSON, WILLIE L. 1-10-1895 - 2-4-1982

 

PRENDERVILLE, JANE ALLEN  3-30-1899 - 3-14-1969

PRENDERVILLE, JIM ANDREW   5-20-1895 - 3-21-1956

 

 

SITE SURVEYED   JULY 16, 2004

                                  

 

                 

Additional Cemetery Listings. 

Harpeth Gleanings, Volume I., Winter, 1981.  Cemeteries and tombstones were compiled in this publication.  The information about the South Harpeth Church Cemetery was provided by Verla S. Hodges (now deceased).  These findings are also on record in the Manuscript division of the Tennessee State Library & Archives in “Cemeteries for Davidson County.”   It is not clear whether these listings were prepared from the tombstone inscriptions or from genealogical data in the files of Verla S. Hodges.   In the past 23 years, some of the tombstones in the South Harpeth Church of Christ Cemetery may have deteriorated to the point where the inscriptions have become illegible or may have disintegrated altogether.  For those reasons, the following listing is presented:

 

 

Allen, John David.  Aug, 23, 1869 – Dec. 23, 1904

Allen, Bettie Linton.  Sept. 5, 1872 – March 21, 1964

Allen, Lulie Lee.  Oct. 10, 1902 – Nov. 8, 1965

Linton, Eustacia Ann Hughes. 1832 – 1912

Linton, Janie. Jan. 25, 1869 – Nov. 27, 1885

Linton, Johnson, son of J. V. & Bettie Linton.  Sept. 19, 1874 – Sept. 30, 1874

Linton, Rosa, daughter of J. V. & Bettie Linton.  Aug. 25, 1875 – Sept. ?

Linton, Rosa Lee.  Dec. 14, 1865 – Aug. 12, 1924

Linton, Tommie, son of J. V. & Bettie Linton.  Jan. 8, 1879 – Jan. 21, 1879

Vaughan, E. Lee. May 19, 1855 – July 7, 1886

 

Research Information.

West Nashville, People and Environs, by Sarah Foster Kelley, 1987. 

   This publication contains important information on the Linton family and connections. On pages 147 – 148:  “The village of Linton, located about fifteen miles southwest of Nashville, on the South Harpeth River, was originally called Allison’s Mill.  It was changed to Linton when a post office was placed in McPherson’s Store… The community was said to have been named for Widow Johanna Linton, who had settled in the section prior to 1805…”

    The three marriages of  William James Linton were described in this book:

W .J. Linton married (1st), on September 10, 1843,  Jarutio Jane Vaughan, daughter of Johnson Vaughan, by  his second marriage to Elizabeth Lowe.  W.J. Linton and Jarutio had five children.  She died in 1853.  Mrs. Kelley described the burial place of Jarutio, “laid to rest in the family cemetery enclosed with a high stone fence next to the South Harpeth Christian Church.  It was the same church for which Joseph Davey in 1812 deeded a one acre plot for a meetinghouse.  It was constructed on logs but later burned.  When reconstructed, the building was made of brick and soon became a landmark of the community.”

W. J. Linton married (2nd), in 1854, Mary Jane Moss, daughter of Parsons W. and Elizabeth Moss.  She died within the year and was “buried in the Linton graveyard.”

W. J. Linton married (3rd), Christmas Eve 1856, Eustacia Ann (Hughes) McLemore, the widow of Daniel J. McLemore and daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Bond) Hughes.  W. J. and Eustacia Linton had six children. 

 

Research Information.

According to the Andy Connelly, pastor of South Harpeth Church of Christ (2004), there was always a graveyard connected with the church.  The original structure, built in 1812,  burned and the church was re-built prior to the Civil War.  A portion of the secondary construction exists today including the separate doors for men and women to enter the sanctuary (2004).

 

Research Information compiled  8-13-2004