LEGG-COFFMAN CEMETERY (Earl Townsend Road) GILES COUNTY,
TENNESSEE
WALKER,
William Cannon, born 1796 in TN - died: March 8, 1870 in Limestone Co., AL
(Father of Lovell Walker husband of Rebecca Ann (Coffman) Walker.
WALKER, Rebecca Ann (Coffman), born 1797 in TN, died 1861 in Limestone Co., AL
(w/o William Cannon Walker, Mother of Lovell Walker)
Original letter
from Steve Turnbow 24 Feb 2012: My friend, I believe it is also Extremely
possible that my great-great-Great Grandfather William Cannon Walker (born 1796
in TN - died: March 8, 1870 in Limestone Co., AL), along with his wife - my 3rd
Great Grandmother: Rebecca Ann COFFMAN Walker (born 1797 in TN, died 1861 in
Limestone Co., AL), are ALSO buried here in the Legg-Coffman Cemetery, Giles
Co., TN (very possibly two of the many Old stones that have washed down the
hillside there or perhaps under the fieldstone marked graves)! The reason I say
this, is due to the fact none of our family has any record of where they were
ever buried, but we all know they lived for decades in neighboring Limestone
Co., AL (just south of the Giles Co., Tennessee line), along with many other
Coffmans and Leggs there in Limestone county. ALSO, for knowing that William
Cannon Walker's daughter-in-law (my great-great grandmother): Millie Caroline
Golden Walker is for certain, buried in Legg-Coffman Cemetery. Her husband Lovel
Walker obviously brought her back there for burial, for the reason of knowing
his grandparents David Harmon Coffman and Mary Ann Lovell Coffman were already
buried there in Legg-Coffman Cemetery. Knowing all of these facts, I Strongly
believe in all likelihood Lovel could have also brought his own parents to be
buried there in Legg-Coffman (William and Rebecca Coffman Walker), simply
because he most likely wanted his mother to be buried near her own parents,
David and Mary Coffman. You can ADD: William and Rebecca Coffman Walker and
their birth/death dates I have provided here, as most likely buried in the
Legg-Coffman Cemetery. I would be very grateful if you would. Of course I will
always try to research further to find if they were ever possibly buried in AL,
but if and when....I ever find out differently, in the meantime, I would be
grateful if you would add their names to the Legg-Coffman Cemetery, Giles Co.,
TN. I will also go ahead and make their memorials on Findagrave, and list them
as buried there, until, or if ever we find out otherwise.
Thanks again for all of your work and help! your friend -
Steve Turnbow, 25 Feb 2012.
Commentary by C. Wayne Austin: I have been to this cemetery and cannot refute
the above position. There are many fieldstone and possibly other lost tombstones
that mark graves otherwise lost for many generation. This cemetery is only about
500 yards from the Limestone County Alabama line and these folks did not see the
State line as any an obstacle. I do know the fieldstones are scattered about and
what seems to be the lost tombs are not necessarily close to the Millie Walker
grave, but that is not a clear reason to disprove these listings.
As mentioned to me by Smitty Townsend who aided me in finding this cemetery he
made me aware of a cemetery that is about 700 to a 1,000 yards or so south of
this one into Alabama. I should go back there and get Smitty to describe the
exact location more specifically, so I can visit this perhaps lost cemetery. I
can tell you there are no known mapped cemeteries in Limestone County anywhere
near the place Smitty mentioned. That to me makes it a lost graveyard. Perhaps
this cemetery has some of your kin.
The 1860s & 1870s were terrible times for settlers
to die. The war was going on and after the war was over it continued for many
years to be a time of extreme uncertainty. It was not a time to die in the south
because of the high risk there would not be a headstone placed over the grave.
C. Wayne Austin, 25 Feb 2012.
