PYLANT CEMETERY, (Union Hollow Rd) LINCOLN COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Area views of the Pylant Cemetery, set in a garden atmosphere: 3221/3222/3223/3230/3231/3232/3233/3234/3236//3239/3240/3241/3245/3246/3247/3248

PYLANT, Pinkney Lee, 22 Feb 1798 - 21 Sep 1861. 3225C/3225/3230
PYLANT, Margaret (Renfrow), 7 Mar 1801 - 12 Sep 1880. Her happy soul has winged its way to one pure bright eternal day. 3224C/3224/3230
PYLANT, John Lee, 23 Feb 1830 - 11 Jul 1896. 3235C/3235/footstone J.L.P., next to the large tree.: 3228
PYLANT, James Crawford, 23 Feb 1835 - 18 Oct 1908. Mason. (s/o Pinkney & Margaret Renfrow Pylant.) 3213C/3213/3214
PYLANT, Lydia R. (Bonner), 7 Sep 1834 - 17 Oct 1867 (w/o James Crawford Pylant) 3215C/3215/3216
PYLANT, Drusilla Ann (Young), 24 Feb 1836 - 19 Aug 1883.  (w/o William Gilford Pylant, interred in Old Orchard Cemetery, Petersburg, Tn) 3226C/3226/3227
PYLANT, Francis Marion, 28 Sep 1840 - 14 May 1864. Sleep Soldier Sleep. Thou hath done thy part. At rest with Mother (Confederate Army: Private-8th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, Company D. Died in Resaca, Gordon Co., GA; s/o Son of Pinkney Lee And Margaret "Peggy" Renfrow Pylant.) 3217C/3217/3221
PYLANT, Samuel, 26 Jun 1864 - 20 May 1893. 3212C/3212/3211
SORRELLS, Penina (Pylant), 19 Dec 1825 - 9 May 1907. (w/o Isham Sorrells, 1816 - 1881, interred in the Harkins Cem. Lincoln Co. Tn.; "S" added to surname here.) 3220C/3220/3221
SWNDLE, Edith, (nee Edith _ _ _ _ Gilbert Renfrow) 3 Feb 1782 - 1 Dec 1868. (Mother of James Renfrow & Rebecca Renfro Wright. Step mother of Margaret Pylant b. 1801.) 3218C/3218/3219

Fieldstone marked unknown grave - standing on its end and inserted half way into the ground and facing east/west, unless the stone has fallen: 3237/3238/3242/3243/3244

1850 Census of Lincoln Co. Tn / 1860 Census of Lincoln Co. Tn
Name: Pinkney Pylant*
Age:  1850:52 / 1860:62
Birth Year: 1850 / 1860: abt 1798
Birthplace: North Carolina
Family Number: 1860/160
Home in 1850/1860:District 9, Lincoln, Tennessee
Post Office 1860: Norris Creek

Names                 1850 / 1860     
Pinkney Pylant         52  /  62
Margaret Pylant        49  /  60
John Pylant            20  /  30
Elizabeth              nm  /  27  
James Pylant           15  /  nm
William Pylant         13  /  nm
Francis Marion Pylant  10  /  19
Felix G Pylant          8  /  17
Sarah Pylant           nm  /   5
Andrew Pylant          nm  /   3
Martha Martin          nm  /  10

nm=No Mention / * census taker actually spelled the surname Pilant.
 

Photographed on 25 Oct 2014. The inscriptions were updated with exceptions found or known by C. Wayne Austin. This publication culminated from various sources. Listed on page 20 of the book Lincoln County County Cemeteries by Tim & Helen Marsh, abt 1978. Added here 9 Mar 2015.