CROSS BRIDGES METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY, HAMPSHIRE PIKE, MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE
known as HARLAN CEMETERY at one time.

Located in Cross Bridges, next to (or just west) the Methodist Church on Hampshire Pike.

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Photos to update the listing but this is not a completely updated photography effort, otherwise at random.
BOWEN, Bowen K. (Dr.), 20 Mar 1870 - 4 Aug 1927. (Son of Maj. Achilles Bowen; Dentist.)
BOWEN, Martha (or Mariah) Harlan, 10 Dec 1883 - 25 May 1978. (Wife Dr. B. K. Bowen.)
BOWEN, Rebecca, 26 Sep 1911 - 31 Jul 1912. "Dau. B. K. & Mariah H."
BROOKS, John B., 1854 - 1917.  (h/o Alice E. Brooks (1851 - 1927). Ref: e-mail to Mary Bob from Emma Shurm Butler Duke birdandbear@aol.com )
BROOKS, Alice E., 1851 - 1927. (d/o William H. English (1814 - 1882) & Mary Brown Fariss English (1815 - 1895); w/o John B. Brooks (1854 - 1917.) Ref: e-mail to Mary Bob from Emma Shurm Butler Duke birdandbear@aol.com )
CECIL, Loyd, 24 Aug 1833 - 1 Nov 1920. "Son of Wm. Ingram & Elizabeth Ribble Cecil; C.S.A. Veteran)
CECIL, Virginia W. Porter, 2 Nov 1839 -24 Feb 1893. "Dau. Dr. S. S. & C. W. Porter; mar. to Loyd Cecil on 2 Apr 1860."
CECIL, John W., 23 Mar 1848 - 18 Jul 1930.
CECIL, Mollie Estes, 2 Nov 1849 - 27 Mar 1930.
CECIL, William Porter, 27 Jul 1871 - 29 Feb 1888, 17 yrs 7 mos & 2 dys, (Son Loyd & Jennie Porter Cecil.)
CECIL, Maury Brownfield, 10 Nov 1871 - 22 Nov 1921. (Son Loyd & Jennie Porter Cecil.)
CECIL, John W., Jr., 23 Mar 1887 - 7 Dec 1975.
CECIL, Ruth Scott, 19 Mar 1893 - 28 May 1968.
CECIL, Lula Lovell, 17 Apr 1898 - 10 Dec 1927. (Daughter of E. T. Lovell; 1st wife John W. Cecil, Jr.)
CECIL, William S. "Billy", 9 May 1932 - 12 Dec 1983.
CECIL, John Wilkerson, III, 5 Nov 1923 - 27 Sep 2006, Pvt US Army WWII. (Maury Co. native; born on Cecil Family Farm in Cross Bridges; son of John Wilkerson Cecil, II, and Lula Clementine Lovell Cecil; mar. 53 years to Florence Edity Duke Cecil who died 10 Aug 2001; 1942 grad. Central High School; owned Cecil's Store, farmer)
CECIL, Florence Duke, "Blondie", 21 Jun 1928 - 10 Aug 2001.
DOBBINS, Henry Sowell, 14 Aug 1884 - 31 Aug 1977. (Son of James & Elizabeth Sowell Dobbins.
DOBBINS, Elizabeth Harlan, 22 Feb 1887 - 25 Oct 1970.
DOBBINS, James Harlan, 11 Jun 1918 - 20 Jun 2008. (son of Henry Sowell Dobbins and Elizabeth Harlan Dobbins; 1936 graduate of Hampshire High School; mar. in 1948 to Lecy Sparkman Harlan)
DOBBINS, Lecy Sparkman, 17 May 1918 - 8 Sep 2005. (daughter of Berry and Sallie fox Sparkman; raised in the Bethel Community; 1936 graduate of Santa Fe High School; member of Jane Knox Chapter of the D.A.R.; Capt. James Madison Sparkman Chapter of the U.D.C; Maury Co. Historical Society; married 57 years to James Harlan Dobbins.)
FRANKLIN, Sarah A., 27 Jul 1817 - 12 Feb 1897.
HARLAN, Jacob, 31 Oct 1851 - 13 Nov 1897.
HARLAN, Jane Mitchner, 3 Jul 1854 - 30 Oct 1921.
HARLAN, Tommie, 1894 - 1910.
INGRAM, William Perry, 23 Apr 1822 - 22 Dec 1896.
JONES, Eva Sowell, 1856 - 1943.
MASSEY, Pleasant M., 15 Jun 1858 - 21 May 1890.
MASSEY, Sallie, 1863 - 1932.
McBRIDE, M. (Michael) A. (Alexander),24 Jan 1855 - 14 Jun 1915. (Lawrence Co. native; s/o George & Rosa Kinzer McBride, mar. Etta May English 1 Nov 1883, farmer, Tn. Death Cert #246.) Ref: e-mail to Mary Bob from Emma Shurm Butler Duke birdandbear@aol.com )
McBRIDE, Etta May (English), 3 May 1856 - 14 May 1925.(Maury Co. native; d/ William H. English (1814 - 1882) & Mary Brown "Polly" Fariss English (1815 - 1895) w/o Michael Alexander McBride. Ref: e-mail to Mary Bob from Emma Shurm Butler Duke birdandbear@aol.com )
RAINEY, William Fleming Jr., 10 May 1925 - 18 Dec 2005. CPL, US Army Air Forces, WWII.
SOWELL, John C., (24 Jun)1860 - 1916. (Son Henry C. & Jennie Sowell.)
SOWELL,  Kate Ribble Cecil, 23 Jan 1869 - 19 Nov 1889. "Wife of John C. Sowell." (Dau. Loyd & Vrginia "Jennie" Porter Cecil; Ornate carved monument.)
YOUNG, Aunt Dina, died 11 Nov 1898. "A Faithful Servant."

Sources: They Passed This Way, page A-154, about 1967; Maury County Tennessee Cemeteries , page 682, Listed 17 Jul 1987, by Fred Lee Hawkins; Photos and information by Wayne Austin based on a visit 25 Sep 2008. Organization and publication by Wayne Austin, 6 Oct 2008.