STEPHENS CEMETERY, Dyer Rd, LINCOLN COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Overviews: 1676/1679/1681/1682

This is the Old William Stephens homeplace.  He died in 1859. There are parts of several markers but no grave marker is in place enough to read complete.

PITTS, Mary A.  wife of  T. . . . ., 8 Sep 1834 - 1 Mar 1869, age: 35y, 5m, 25d. "PITTS, born Sept the 8th 1834, Died March the 1st 1869, Aged 35 Yrs, 5 months and 25 days." headstone top: 1674/footstone Mary A.: 1673/bottom section:1672C/1672
 

Unknown grave marker parts. One seems to be a base: 1675
4 bases of unknown monuments: 1677/1678
Base of large unknown monument:1680

*It may be that Photo # 1672, 1673 & 1674 are part of 2 different monuments and that 1672 makes up one and 1673,1974 another. The breakage seams do not seem to match up.

I am told by Mr. Quarles the current land owner that this cemetery was bulldozed by a previous owner from the open field and pushed up against this treed area and left. That seems consistent with the wide variety of parts and sections of stones in various positions and places. Nothing matches up to a grave that I can tell.

These census records may or may not match these Pitts and Stephens family:
1850 United States Federal Census
Name:Thomas B Pitts
Age: 24
Birth Year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1850:Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee
Gender:Male
Family Number:367
Name          Age
Thomas Crick   63
Anna Crick     62
Thomas B Pitts 24
Sarah A Pitts  26
James C Pitts  1/12

1850 United States Federal Census
Name:George W Stephens (George William Stephens?)
Age:35
Birth Year:abt 1815
Birthplace:Tennessee
Home in 1850:Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee
Gender:Male
Family Number:1004
Name              Age
George W Stephens  35
Jane Stephens      31
Samantha J Stephens 9
Malinda B Stephens  7
Mary A Stephens     5
Evaline Stephens    4
George W B Stephens 3

This presentation is based on the photography of C. Wayne Austin 8 Sep 2014. Some of the material was presented on page 57 Lincoln Co Cemeteries (book.) Added here 11 Sep 2014.