GRIFFIN CEMETERY (REMOVED)

                             (PRIOR TO PERCY PRIEST LAKE & DAM CONSTRUCTION)

 

PP-110:  NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN.   Relocated in 1966.

 

U. S. Corps of Engineers removed the Griffin Cemetery (#110), Davidson County, prior to the construction of Percy Priest Lake and Dam.  Re-interments took place at Mt. Juliet Cemetery, Wilson County, TN.,  in Memorial Gardens Section 3.   Corps recorded the following names and death dates:

 

Walden, John.  1912

Gotto, Frank.  No date

Stocker, Charles.  1847

Griffin, Fannie E.  1932

Griffin, John H.  1926

Foster, Martha.  1845

Stocker, Clarenda.  No date

78 Unknown.  Graves without markers.

 

Original location of the Griffin Cemetery may be found on www.topozone.com/viewmaps.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