AN-54: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN.  (REMOVED)

 

Inscriptions from the Vaulx Cemetery was listed in Tombstone Inscriptions & Manuscripts, compiled by Mrs. Jeannette Tillotson Acklen, and published in 1933,  page 169:

Graveyard on the Clyne Homestead

Six miles southeast of Nashville on the Chattanooga Road

Daniel Vaulx, born in Maryland

Died Aug. 15, 1815.

Age about 65 years      

Catherine Vaulx, wife of Daniel Vaulx, born in Caroline

County, VA., July 20, 1755 - Nov. 12, 1851.

Age, 96 years, 8 months (sic), 23 days 

Sacred to the memory of Mary Vaulx, consort of

 William Vaulx, and daughter of Charles and

Ann Hays, April 22, 1799 - Dec. 31, 1829.

Age, 30 years, 8 months, 9 days 

 

“Notes on the Vaulx Family” written by Major General William H. Carter,

 is an undated manuscript in the Vaulx family descendants’ collection.  The author (Born near Nashville, Nov.19, 1851. Grandson of Mary William and Mary (Hays) Vaulx) had visited the cemetery at its original location. He wrote:

The tombstones, still in good state of preservation, on the old

Vaulx farm, on the Murfreesboro Road, about seven miles from

Nashville, contain the following inscriptions:

Daniel Vaulx

Born in Maryland

Died August 18, 1815 (death day differs from above)

Aged about 65 years

 

Catherine Vaulx

Wife of Daniel Vaulx

Born in Caroline County, VA.

July 20, 1755

Died Nov. 12, 1851

Aged 96 years, 3 months, 23 days

 

           

 Mary Hays Vaulx and her two sons James and Charles Vaulx are  buried on the old Vaulx farm where lie Daniel and Catherine Vaulx.

On her tombstone:

Sacred to the memory of Mary Vaulx

Consort of William Vaulx

Daughter of Charles and Anne Hays

Born 22 April 1799

Died 31 Dec. 1829

Aged 30 years, 8 months and 9 days

May the sod rest lightly upon her grave.

May the grass that covers the little mound that

 marks her last resting place, be forever green.

And may the soft winds blowing o’er this

sacred spot ever sing a requiem in her memory.

               

 

According to the family descendants, Joe Vaulx Crockett arranged for the re-interment of the graves from the Vaulx family cemetery to the Nashville City Cemetery in the late 1930s.

 

 

Report: 10-20-2003