Looking southwest at the Stella Cemetery and School House. Many of Stella and the surrounding community's early inhabitant lie here beneath these grounds. It is believed the James Paisley family being here as early as 1815 might have been the initial founding family for the Presbyterian church here. We know it was meeting at least by the 1820s but not in this building when the Samuel Kerr moved here from Spring Hill in Maury County and married Anna Paisley and started a family. The original schoolhouse structure was down the hill where the current school is now located and was standing in the early part of the 1900s. It being a log structure which was taken over by the school and integrated or abolished for the purpose of improving the school facility. You will find many of the early inhabitants interred here. The building in your view was built in 1926 and served at one time as a high school which I understand was partially torn away in recent years. 

Stella Cemetery looking southeast from the northwestern side.

This wide angle photo was made from the western edge of the cemetery looking east across the memorials.
Cemetery photos dated 22 Jul 2004.