ROLAND/ROWLAND CEMETERY CEMETERY, (Elkton, Long Road) GILES COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Area views of the Cemetery: 4018/4019/4020/4025/4026/4027/4028/4029/4030/4031
Fragments of old Brick indicating a brick structure was near here: 4032/4033

DOWNING, Frony Medora "Dora" Roland,  1863  - 16 Feb 1889. dau of William & Elizabeth Locker Roland (grave, if here, unmarked) (*)
HARGROVE, Ann Roland, 9 Jul 1867 - 23 Jul 1915, wife of J. A. Hargrove. Come ye Blessed. 4003C/4003/4024
HOOD, Elvalena Roland, 11 Sep 1869 - 20 May 1903, wife of J. H. Hood. (Well made concrete Marker) 4001C/4001/4021/4022
LOCKER, Nancy, 30 Dec 1832 - 4 Apr 1910. Gone but not forgotten 4004/4024
ROLAND, Annie, 11 Feb 1882 - 22 Apr 1916, wife of G. W. Roland. 4011/4013
ROLAND, Daisy Mae, 1 Sep 1899 - 4 Jul 1900, daughter of G. W. & Annie Roland. 4009/4012
ROLAND, William, (b. ca 1836) - died 21 Nov 1903 (marker beside Elizabeth Locker Roland w/name crumbled off, died Nov 21, 1903 Age 67, For me Lord Jesus thou hast died and I have died in thee. (Likely this broken monument to be for William Roland h/o of Elizabeth Locker Roland.)  4007C/4007/4008/4006/4026
ROLAND, Elizabeth Locker, 23 Aug 1846 - 28 Sep 1924, wife of William Roland. 4005/footstone E.L.R. 4010
ROLAND, Clifford, son of G.W. & (Annie?) Roland, . . . Jul. . . (Three broken fragments of a child's tombstone) 4023C/4023/Footstone initials C.R.: 4002/4014
TALLENT, Permelia C. "Melia" Roland, 20 Mar 1862  - 23 Jul 1899, dau of William & Elizabeth Locker Roland (grave, if here, unmarked) (*)

Fieldstone shaped marking a grave: 4015/4016/4017/4034/4035/4036

(*) The William Roland family owned the farm, where this graveyard sits, at one time during their prime, and these two family members are thought be buried here also, though today we find no marked stone for them.
 

Visited & photographed 14 Mar 2011 by Wayne Austin with the help of George Newman. Initial typing by Faye Bradford. Added to this site 21 May 2012. Also published in the book Giles County Cemeteries, Page 471-472 by the Historical Society about 1985. Not completely presented on Findagrave.com. (*) Revisions per Carolyn Roland Paulger, a descendent of Detroit MI who left Fayetteville Tn in 1953, 16 Mar 2013