ELLIS CEMETERY (REMOVED)

                       (PRIOR TO PERCY PRIEST LAKE & DAM CONSTRUCTION)

 

PP-106:  NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN.  Relocated in 1966

 

U. S. Corps of Engineers removed the Ellis Cemetery (#106), Davidson County, prior to the construction of Percy Priest Lake and Dame.  Re-interments took place at Mt. Juliet Cemetery, Wilson County, TN.,  in Memorial Gardens Section 2.  Corps recorded the following names and death dates:

 

Ellis, Marshall.  1948

Johnson, Betty J.  No date

Ellis, George W.  1941

Ellis, Margaret E.  1907

Meriwether, Caddy.  No date

9 Unknown.  Graves without markers

 

Original location of the   Ellis Cemetery  may be  found  on  www.topozone.com/print.asp     

(Available in 2004)

 

For additional historical information on the Percy Priest Dam and Lake Project, click-on “Percy Priest. Cemeteries Removed”                                                       

Report.  4-30-2004