POWELL-KINCAID-GIBBONS CEMETERY (Powell School Road), GILES COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Overview Photos of the Cemetery:9825/9826/9827/9828/9829/9830/9908/9909/9910/9912/9913/9914/9915/9916/9917/9918/9919/9920/9921/9922/9923/9924/9925/9926

APPLETON, Oliver D. , 25 Jan 1821 - 11 Dec 1881. married 11 Jan 1842 9835C/9835/9836/9837
APPLETON, Mary W., wife of Oliver D. Appleton, dau of Joseph and Jane Massey Powell, 7 Apr 1824 - 12 Oct 1882 9838C/9838/footstone M.W.A.:9841
APPLETON, J. R., 20 Jun 1845 - 01 Jul 1863, (s/o Oliver D. and Mary W. Powell Appleton) 9839C/9839/9840/Footstone J.R.A.:9849
APPLETON, T. J., 1841 - 1845 (Memorial not found this survey)
APPLETON, Joseph P., son of Oliver D. & Mary W. Powell Appleton, 26 Dec 1853 - 1 Sep 1854. 9865
APPLETON, Mary J. , dau of Oliver D. & Mary W. Powell Appleton, 13 Oct 1842 - 22 Nov 1842.  9872/9873/Footstone M.J.A. & grave cradle:9874
APPLETON, Thomas J., 13 Oct 1843 - 11 Dec 1861, (son of Oliver D. & Mary W. Powell Appleton) 9862/9863
APPLETON, Infant child of Oliver D. & Mary W. Powell Appleton (no dates) 9864
APPLETON, Martha L., 11 Jul 1855 - 10 May 1883 9859C/9859
GIBBONS, John Quincy, 7 Dec 1823 - 18 Nov 1902 (h/o 1st Ann Fields Powell Gibbons)(h/o 2nd Elizabeth Ann Jones Booth Gibbons)(s/o James and Elizabeth Lovett Gibbons) 9905/9906/Footstone J.O.G.:9907
GIBBONS, (Ann Fields Powell, wife of John Q. Gibbons, d/o Joseph & Jane Massey Powell, 13 April 1827 - 5 Feb 1860, (Initials on headstone etched as: A.F.G.) 9903L/Head & Footstone:9904
HAGAN, Sarah Frances C. Rogers, wife of A. A. Hagan, 9 Apr 1861 - 11 Aug 1899,  Age 38 years, 4 months & 2 days.(w/o Andrew Allen Hagan; married 24 Oct 1886 Lincoln C.T.; d/o Isom C. and Irena McNutt Rogers) 9850/9847/Tombstone Symbolism:9848/footstone S.F.C.H.:9851
HAGAN, Infant, 11 Aug 1899 - 11 Aug 1899 (infant of Andrew Allen and Sarah Frances Hagan)(grave unmarked, This infant was buried in casket with its mother Sarah)
HAGAN, Infant son of Andrew Allen & Susie Mildred Dotson Hagan, B. & D. 1 April 1900 9842C/9842
HAGAN, Mary Frances Appleton, wife of Andrew Allen Hagan, (b. cir 15 Sep 1857) - 15 Feb 1884, Age 26 Yrs & 5 Months, (Dau of Oliver D. & Mary W. Powell Appleton) You who read will one day lose youth, beauty, life and sleep as i sleep respicefinem. 9856C/9856/9857
KINCAID, James Hillard, 14 May 1824 - 17 Jul 1909 FATHER 9900/9901/9902/Footstone J.H.K.:9892
KINCAID, Martha Elizabeth Shuler Richardson, 15 Jan 1838 - no death date.(d/o Peter and Martha M. Rushing Shuler)  MOTHER (d/o Peter and Martha M. Rushing Shuler)* 9899/9901/9902/Footstone M.E.K.: 9898
KINCAID, Maria E.W. Powell Kincaid, wife of James Hillard Kincaid, 5 Apr 1833 - 22 Jan 1858 (d/o Joseph & Mary Massey Powell) 9889/9890/Footstone M.E.W.K.:9891
KINCAID, Ann Green, second wife of J. H. Kincaid, 21 Nov 1835 - 20 Mar 1863. 9870/9871/Footstone A.G.K.: 9869
KINCAID, Infant of J. H. & M.E. Kincaid, B & D. 24 August 1882. 9866/9867/9868
KINCAID, J.L., 18 Nov 1848 - 17 Sep 1849 9882L/9882/9883/Broken stone - back in place:9884
J. L. K.(incaid) W(as) B(orn), Nov 18, 1848, D(e)C(eased) S(ept) 17, 1849**
KINCAID, F. J. 25 Jan 1856 - 3 Nov 1857  9885L/9885/9886
F. J. K.(incaid) W(as) B(orn), J(an) 25, 1856, D(e)C(eased) N(ov) 3, 1857**
KINCAID, L.E., 22 Nov 1857 - 8 Feb 1858 9877L/9877/9878/9879
L.E.K.(incaid) W(as) B(orn), N 22, 1857, D(e)C(eased) F(eb) 8, 1858**
LEE, Allen S. 6 Apr 1808 1 Mar 1816 (s/o John and Elizabeth Taylor Lee) Unmarked grave
LEE, Benjamin Jefferson, 1813 - 1893 (h/o Susannah Pate Lee) (Ellis, Texas) (s/o John and Elizabeth Taylor Lee)(grave not found this survey)
LEE, Leroy, 1844 - 1864 (s/o Benjamin Jefferson and Susannah Pate Lee)(grave not found this survey)
LEE, Susannah Pate (Unmarked grave), 1813 __ May 1876 (w/o Benjamin Jefferson Lee) (d/o John and Mary Abston Pate)(grave not found this survey)
MITCHELL, Dewey (Unmarked) 03 Aug 1901 - 30 Apr 1926 (s/o Elbert and Adella Mitchell) (grave not found this survey)
POWELL, Joseph, 8 Dec 1785 - 1 Oct 1853. 1854 (h/o Jane Massey Powell) Born in Powell Valley, VA (s/o Joseph and Susan Edwards Powell) 9893L/9893/9894/9895
J(oseph) P(owell) W(as) B(orn) Dec 8, 1785, D(eceased) Oct 1 1853**
POWELL, Jane Massey, 18 Jul 1785 - 4 Aug 1854 (wife of Joseph Powell, b. South Carolina)  9896L/9896/9897
J(ane Massey) P(owell) W(as) B(orn) JUY (July) 18, 1785 D(eceased) AUG 4, 1854**
ROGERS, Isom C., Born 1837 (Only Date; Stone not found)

Foot Stone with no headstone-initials:(Hagan likely surname):, M.F.H.:9854
Foot Stone with no headstone initials:(Gibbons likely surname):, J.H.G. 9845/9846
Foot Stone with no headstone-initials: A.W. 9852
Foot Stone with no headstone-initials: B.W. 9853C/9853
Foot Stone with no headstone-initials:(Appleton likely surname) M.M.A. 9855/9860
Foot Stone with no headstone-initials: M.E.S. 9858
Unknown footstones - no markings (2 ea): 9844/9881
Unknown Fieldstone marking grave in children's area: 9875
Unknown stone no markings. Likely a footstone - hard to tell, since some are misplaced or the headstone/footstone relationship no longer in proper place: 9876/9887/back side of stone (Front-Photo#9887):9888
Fieldstone marked graves: 9880

Pet (Dogs?) Graves just west & outside the perimeter of the cemetery:9831/9832/9833/9834

*I have found that a wife's stone without a death date usually means the wife died after the husband. For some reason it is harder for children to remember this detail after the stone gets set in the graveyard for he husband. I believe she is certainly buried here, because there is a footstone initialed as: M.E.K..

**How do we know J.P.W.B. stands for Joseph Powell Was Born? (1)By the records of the Giles Co Cemetery book that say Joseph Powell is buried here and gives his dates. (2) Also all of these stones have WB before the 1st date. ("WB" was used as a common way of abbreviating "Was Born" by this stone carver. This method shows up in other nearby graveyards such as Appleton Cemetery in Lawrence Co. TN. There was a John Owens who is buried in the Owens cemetery nearby but across the Lawrence County Line on Sugar Creek who was known to be an excellent stone carver. However he was born in 1841 (unless it was actually his father) too late to carve some of these stones. Owens used limestone commonly found nearby not of the best grade. My first thoughts about this was maybe they did not know a B from a P.) Later with some clues from the book I figured out that JPWB etc (See above Joseph Powell listing) meant Joseph Powell Was Born Dec 8, 1785 DeCeased Oct 1, 1853. His wife Jane's tombstone was done the same way. There were three of the Kincaid stones carved the same way, but all were for children. All these stones were inscribed from 1848 to 1858 I am sure by the same stone carver.

There were two listings I dropped for a couple J.P. & W.B. Kincaid which I did not find. Their dates matched exactly those of Joseph & Jane Powell - not hardly possible. I concede that records may exist somewhere that show this couple lived in this area and was buried here and someone missed getting their dates correct, but I choose to believe the corruption (of the hard to read hand carved stone abbreviations above) was caused by the Cemetery book writers/copyers misinterpreting the confusing stones above.

Added here 29 Jan 2017  based on a visit on a sunny Tuesday 24 Jan 2017. Originally published on page 449 of the book Giles County, Tennessee Cemeteries by the Historical Society about 1985 with important details omitted. The Findagrave crowd either cannot find the cemetery of choose to ignore its rough condition and add their listings to the Powell Cemetery across the Shannon Creek valley from this site. I may add the menu and mapping and see if they will transfer and add the rest of the listings. Several Listings added from the records of Jean Cosby.