SAMUEL (Anna) CEMETERY, Fire-tower Rd, GILES COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Area photo views of the Samuel Cemetery: 6611/6613W/6613WL/6613/6614/6615/6616/6617/6620/6621

Cemetery Listing:
SAMUEL, Annar (Anna Waters), Oct 18, 1764 - Feb 11, 1852, in the 88 year of her age, wife of Anthony Samuel*** m. 1786 25 Dec 1786 Caswell Co NC. 6604L/6604/6621
SAMUEL, William S., Feb 24, 1806 - Jul 21, 1870  son of Anthony & Annar Samuel. 6610L/6610/6612/misplaced footstone W.S.S.:6618
SAMUEL, Dorinda Frances (Anderson)**, Jan 13, 1817 - May 23, 1860,  wife of William S. Samuel. 6600L/6600/6601/footstone D.F.S.:6609 *
SAMUEL, Augustus A., Jan 26, 1842 - Sep 16, 1860, son of William S & Dorinda Frances Samuel. 6619L/6619/6614/6615/6602/6603
SAMUEL, Virginia Frances, Dec 29, 1848 - Jul 1, 1859  daughter of William S. & Dorinda Frances Samuel. 6598L/6598/6599

Fragments of Broken markers and also a fieldstone marking a grave:6605/6606/6607/6608
*The only monument still standing up. I went there a few days later and cut the tree cambium some to prevent it from overtaking the stone. If I had cut it completely the cattle would have trampled this stone so I injured it so it would not grow around the stone, but not die either and allow the cattle to trample the stone.

*** Anthony is actually interred in the Anthony Samuel Graveyard on the Buford Station Road on the old John Yokley (d. 1970) farm.
** Source of Marriage of Dorinda Anderson to William S Samuel 6 Aug 1835 in Williamson County Tennessee.

Census information and other vital records on the Anthony Samuel family:
1850 Census of Giles County Tennessee
Name:Anner Samuel (Anna Samuel)
Age:86
Birth Year:abt 1764
Birthplace:North Carolina
Home in 1850:District 11, Giles, Tennessee, USA
Gender:Female
Family Number:454
Household Members:
Wm S Samuel        44 Tenn (Hus)
Dorinda Samuel     33 Tenn (wife of Wm S. Samuel)
Joel A Samuel      13 Tenn (son)
Ethelbert Samuel   12 Tenn (son)
Wm J Samuel        10 Tenn (son)
Augustus A Samuel   8 Tenn (dau)
Sarah A Samuel      6 Tenn (dau)
Mary D Samuel       3 Tenn (dau)
Virginia F Samuel   1 Tenn (dau)
Thomas S McCanless 25 Tenn 
Anner Samuel       86 N. Car.(Mother)
Jacob Watson       60 Tenn (servant)

Did not find Anna Samuel in the 1840 census, but she is back in the 1850 census living with her son William.

Census of 1830 Giles County Tenn.
Name:Ana Samuel
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):Giles, Tennessee
FWP - Males   - 20 thru 29:1
FWP - Females - 20 thru 29:1
FWP - Females - 30 thru 39:1
FWP - Females - 60 thru 69:1
SL  - Males   - 10 thru 23:1
SL  - Females -  Under  10:1
SL  - Females - 10 thru 23:1
Slaves-Females- 36 thru 54:1
FWP           - 20 thru 49:3
  Total Free White Persons:4
  Total Slaves:4
  Total All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):8

1820 Census of Giles County Tennessee
Name:Anthony Samuel
Home in 1820 (City, County, State):Pulaski, Giles, Tennessee
Enumeration Date:August 7, 1820
FWP - Males   - 10 thru 15 :1
FWP - Males   - 16 thru 18 :1
FWP - Males   - 16 thru 25 :1
FWP - Males   - 45 and over:1
FWP - Females - 10 thru 15 :1
FWP - Females - 16 thru 25 :2
FWP - Females - 26 thru 44 :2
FWP - Females - 45 and over:1
SL - Males    - 14 thru 25 :1
SL - Males    - 26 thru 44 :1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 4
FWP - Under 16                            : 2
FWP - Over  25                            : 4
  Total Free White Persons                : 9
  Total Slaves                            : 2
  Total All Persons, White, Slaves, Colored:11

Family Head record NC:
Name:Anthony Samuel
Birth Date:1750
Birthplace:North Carolina
Volume:152, Page Number:376
Reference:Heads of fams. at the first U.S. census. NC. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (292p.):81
 
Marriage Record of Anthony & Anna Waters.
Name:Anthony Samuel
Spouse:Anna Waters
Parents:Anthony Samuel
Birth Place:Caswell Co, NC
Birth Date:1766
Marriage Place:Caswell Co, NC
Marriage Date:25 Dec 1786
Death Place:Caswell Co, NC (s/b Giles Co Tn? if we have the right marriage)
Death Date:1826 (does not match the grave records)

Buried here are some of the descendents of Anthony Samuel, including Anna Waters Samuel, the matriarch.

Source for this listing is now basedon a visit and photography session Tombstone inscriptions and the Giles County Tennessee Cemetery book, by the Giles County Historical Society 1985, page 475 and census records on Ancestry.com. Added here 1st 5 Mar 2013 by C. Wayne Austin. Revised 21 Apr 2016 for a visit which took place 19 Apr 2016. It is obvious from the photos that this cemetery has been abandoned for years. Only two of the stones are broken and require special repairs to get the cemetery standing up. The other stones could be reset into the ground and will stand. It would do no good to stand them up and watch the cattle break/mash them back into the ground with their rubbing action. Fencing without further maintenance would allow giant trees to spring up and eventually fall down on the stones in storms so that is a failed option in the long run. I propose a narrow fenced area with barb wire without the barbs that allows the cattle to stick their heads in and graze the cemetery from across the fence to keep the vegetation under control without touching the stones otherwise.