CATHEY FAMILY CEMETERY, LOVE BRANCH RD, (Western) MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE
known also as the Cathey Cemetery.

 

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This is the Holt family area of the cemetery. In our immediate view are two fieldstones that mark graves, but have no inscription. How do I know they mark graves? The stones are standing on their edge and within the same row as the marked graves. An unmarked grave without stones may take on either of two characteristics. One a sunken area where the grass grows taller. Two an area that is mounded up due to being back filled over time into a mounded spot. That is done by wary relatives who know that heaping up the soil disperses the rain water and preserves the grave better.

Panning the camera to the right of the above photo we get this photo of the cemetery. Notice the two Holt family memorials of identical style with the large space between. You figure that one out.
Photos by Wayne Austin 18 Nov 2008.