MAPLEHILL CEMETERY, Pulaski, GILES COUNTY TENNESSEE

FRANKLN, Benjamin Dunn, 1 Jan 1807 - 2 Jun 1897, Pulaski Giles Co Tn. Maplewood Cemetery (according to the Obit.. Pulaski Tennessee where he is interred and has a write up.

"Mr. Benjamin (Dunn) Franklin, one of Giles County's oldest and most respected citizens died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. E. Matthews, Wednesday, June 2, at 10:30 a.m. in the 91st year of his age.
He was born in eastern Georgia, Jan. 1, 1807, and came to Tennessee with his grandfather, Abraham Franklin, in 1818. His first wife was Miss Francis (Dorothy) Lee. His second wife was Miss America Jones who died in 1875. There were no children of his last marriage.
 
His surviving children are Mrs. Sarah Ann (David Lanier) Graves, of Neosho, MO.; Mrs. N(ewton). G(reene). Eslick (interred in New Zion Cemetery) and Mrs. J. E. Matthews, of and near this place. He was a life-long Methodist and an old line Whig.

After funeral services at the residence by Rev. Marion Kennedy, the remains were interred in Maplewood."

Information in italics added by Edward G. Corlew, Jr. (See findgrave to resurrect this. I could not tell italics from non-italics)

Information was also obtained from family files located in Giles County Historical Society records, Pulaski, Giles, Tennessee, USA.

This Ben Franklin family was Family #794 in Dist 10 of Giles County 1860. This was next door to the Samuel family who were Family #795. There is an old unmarked Franklin Cemetery just west of Fire-tower Road back in the woods with stones without any inscription. Since my efforts to find more of this family listed in graveyards of Giles County have failed I have to concluded they are buried in this lost Franklin cemetery in unmarked graves. Perhaps buried there are the children of Ben & Sarah Franklin that died in their home in Dist 10 along with possible earlier generations such as the grandfather and parents mentioned below. Statement says that Ben came to Giles Co with his grandfather Abraham Franklin not mentioning the parents.

GRANDFATHER:
Abraham Franklin (dates unknown)

HIS PARENTS:
John Franklin - 1781-1825
Sarah Dunne - 1785-1827

CHILDREN:
Sarah Francis Franklin _____
Mary Jane Franklin - 1830-1929
John Lee Franklin ______
Francis Elizabeth Franklin 1836-_____
Sarah Ann America Franklin - (my GG Grandmother - 1832-1898)
Arkansas Dorothy Franklin - 1839-1898

Condensed and added here by C. Wayne Austin 27 May 2016 . See Franklin Cemetery I have added here on Rootsweb_Freepages and some on Findagrave.com