AMIS CEMETERY, VALLEY CREEK RD. MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE
An endangered Cemetery


The three box tombs of the Amis Cemetery, Culleoka, Valley Creek Road, behind a new wooden fence. Looking closely we see Miss Kitty (name unknown) in the center of the photo under the fence serving as our greeter. He/she is probably defending some good mouse hunting territory here.

Finding Amis Cemetery - Locator Maps    Historic Ramsey-Finney House & Pullen Mill   Rick Gray and his helpers contribute this Cemetery

AMIS, John, 29 Oct 1774 - 9 Sep 1852. Aged 77 years, 10 Mo. & 11 days.)
AMIS, Mary, (1781 - 1851) (N.C. native; Nee: Mary Polly Knight Amis; mar. John Amis 7 Oct 1797; Tomb between tomb of John & Josiah. (Shaled and broken. Inscription now unreadable, probably grave of Mary Amis wife of John.)
AMIS, Josiah D., 10 Apr 1819 - 4 Apr 1852. Aged 32 years 11 months & 21 Days.) "Youngest son of John & Mary Amis."

Sources: Photos and research by Rick Gray & his son Andrew. Visited & photographed 5 Feb 2005. Added here 26 Jan 2010. Also published in the following books in the past: "Maury County Tennessee Cemeteries", 26 Jan 1988, by 
Fred Lee Hawkins, page 508. "They Passed This Way", 1963, by Evelyn Shackleford & Marise Lightfoot, page D-210.)