BAILEY CEMETERY, MT JOY, MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEEĀ 


This photo looks out onto the King and Pickard tombstones on the left side of the cemetery. Many of them are started to lean with the weight of time. You can see one on the line with King graves (front row of tall stones) that has broken. All of the engraving/inscription on that stone is gone. From the front of the picture it is the second in that row.

This photo is of the back corner of the left side of the Bailey Cemetery. The cows in the back field which I believe belongs to Willard Grimes (current caretaker for the cemetery) show that the cemetery is in a rural area. In the very back corner you will find the majority of the Grimes family graves. Also on the back row next to the fence you will find Samuel M. Craig's grave - his is the one with the Confederate Star stone at the foot. You can see on both sides of his grave there is room for one of those graves to be for his wife Felicia Bailey Craig. Buried at his foot is his son, J. Willie Craig. At the foot of Willie is the grave of his cousin Dora Bailey Grimes. Next to her is her brother Urastus O. Bailey. Then are Dora's grandparents, John and Nancy Bailey. This area consists as you can tell of a great deal of the Bailey family and their descendants. You will once again see several of the small stones that are characteristic of this cemetery - no signs of any engraving on them.

Information and photos by Rick Gray, 11/12/2004.