SALEM (old) CHURCH CEMETERY, Red Oak Road, LINCOLN COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Cemetery information:
 

There are fifteen graves remaining on this site. Of the fifteen, only two have any inscription remaining on the markers. several of the graves/and or gravestones in the past were moved to Boonshill. They are:

WILSON, Mary E., daughter of Andrew and Ann Wilson, Mar 03, 1828 - Sep 17, 1845.
W....., Initials (M.E.W., No Dates, probably a footstone for a lost or moved headstone.)

Due to the excessive growth of vegetation this site has become nearly unrecognizable today (2016)
There are unknown graves here known only by our creator.

The Old Salem cemetery is located on Philip Thomason's farm, just to the south of the pond on the hill, but to the south-west of his house. (1990). This is on Red Oak Road
about 3/4 mile west of the Boonshill Church & Cemetery. Of course as stated the original Salem Church Congregation was nearby. It is apparent that there will be Wilson graves
here. the Boone Wilson Cemetery is located 700 yards to the west of this place, but Andrew  or Ann Wilson does not show up in that listing.

It is located on Red Oak Road and that concrete building nearby that is a church building was the black congregation, also a Cumberland Presbyterian Church. I (John) remember when the black congregation still met there. They disbanded around 25 to 30 years ago.
The old Salem building abandoned in 1892 is no longer there. It stood a good ways off the road. I (John) was told that it was a log structure.  If you can see a small pond south of Red Oak Road across the field at a fence row, back southeast of the black congregation block building that is about where it was. Across the fence is wooded area now. When last there 5 or 6 years ago I could not even find the markers. I was trying to show some of the Wilson family where it is.  This was in the summer when everything was grown up in weeds and grass. I didn't want to stomp around too much for fear of snakes. I think it was around 1990 when I was there and recorded the marker information above.

Source for this listing is mainly a list & communication provided by John Fitzsimmons. Added here 17 Jan 2016 by C. Wayne Austin. Surveyed in 1990.