OWENS CEMETERY,  (Appleton Road) LAWRENCE COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Cemetery Photos of the cemetery area:Photo1/Photo3/Photo4

This is Minnie Warren Owens. When she died her husband built the slab over her grave so the rain wouldn't get to her remains. This picture was taken when Linda Jo Hendrix Dean and I (Sue Davis) visited the cemetery. Something had broke her tombstone. Photo2


APPLETON, Clem Gibbins, 23 Nov 1859 - 13 Nov 1903
w/o James Wesley Appleton {married 17 October 1880 in Lawrence Co Tn}
d/o Joseph and Emily Balch Gibbins
APPLETON, Frony F., 17 Jun 1882 - 27 Jan 1896
d/o James Wesley and Martha Clementine Gibbins Appleton
APPLETON, Infant, 15 Jun 1885 - 15 Jun 1885
Infant of James Wesley and Martha Clementine Gibbins Appleton
APPLETON, J. W. {James Wesley}, 47 yrs. 4 mos. 4 days 11 Nov 1896
h/o Martha Clementine Gibbins
s/o Robert Wesley and Martha G. _____ Appleton
BALCH, J. B. {Joseph Bruce}, 15 Jan 1846 - 20 Jan 1892
h/o Melinda Catherine Owens {married 19 November 1882 in Lawrence Co Tn}
S/O James W. and Martha Powell Balch
OWENS, E. C. {Emily}, 24 Jan 1841 - 20 Jan 1897
w/o [1]. Joseph Gibbins {married 24 May 1857 in Lawrence Co Tn}
w/o [2]. John Robert Owens {married 7 May 1864 in Lawrence Co Tn}
d/o James W. and Martha Powell Balch
OWENS, Infant, 27 Jan 1899 - 27 Jan 1899
Infant Son of John Robert and Minnie L. Warren Owen
OWENS, J. R. {John Robert}, 11 Jan 1841 - 31 Oct 1924
h/o [1]. Emily C. Balch Gibbins
h/o [2]. Minnie Lee Warren {married 11 April 1897 in GCT}
s/o Robert and Rebecca Ann Berney Owens (married 23 Jan 1848, Lauderdale Co., AL)
OWENS, M. L. {Minnie Lee}, 18 Jan 1874 - 16 Sep 1912
w/o John Robert Owen
d/o Nathan Anderson and Louisa A. Balch Warren
OWENS, [R ?]
OWENS, Robert W., 6 Nov 1873 - 17 Oct 1884
s/o John Robert and Emily C. Balch Gibbons Owen


First time of the two visits I (Sue) made to this cemetery I thought the Appleton rocks were very pretty marble stones. The last time I went something had pawed in the Owens grave, Probably a horse pawing it. [Sue Davis, year 31 Jul 2000.]
Sue Hendrix Davis and Linda Jo Hendrix Dean read the Owen Cemetery on 31 July 2000. Larry Harrison drove his tractor to the cemetery, and we followed in a four wheel drive truck through the creek, mud holes, fields and up a hill close to the Devil�s Backbone. (Devils Backbone center at GPS: N 35.04282 W 87.23183). The Owens cemetery was located on this same hill. We were able to drive the truck right up to the cemetery, and didn�t have to climb any fences or go through any briar patches. All graves of the Owens family members had mummy shaped stone vaults on top of the ground. One vault had apparently been repaired. Sue had been to the cemetery years before and said this particular vault had pieces broken off as if something hard had hit or pawed it. There wasn�t any writing on it.
The story handed down through the years is that John Robert Owens made all these stone vaults himself, being an adept stone carver. [Sue Davis, year 2000]
 

Photographed somewhat by Sue Hendrix Davis with the help of Linda Jo Hendrix Dean accompanied by Mr. Larry Harrison the original land owner, 31 Jul 2000 when the above photos were made. This cemetery is also listed on page 318 of the book Lawrence County County Cemeteries by Carrie Hardwick (Mrs. W. E.) Gresham & Irene McBane (Mrs. W. F., Sr.) Alexander, 1977. Added here 3 Apr 2017 with the permission of Sue Davis for furnishing the bulk of the listing, genealogy and photos.