WORD CEMETERY, (Dist 22, Amos Gamble Road) BEDFORD
COUNTY TENNESSEE
Word Cemetery is shown at GPS 35.39841 North by 86.44666 West.
To find Word Cemetery go south on Hwy 231 out of Shelbyville 4.7 miles from
the Parkway bypass to New Center Church Road and turn left. Go 2.5 five miles
and turn south (right) onto Amos Gamble Road and follow that for 1/2 mile
and look west (right) into an open field. The cemetery is down the edge of the (western
bound) hedge row on the north side of that field. When the hedge row ends turn
left and follow the hedge row in a southerly direction. The cemetery as you see in
the below maps juts out into the field and it being under the trees.
This Topographical Map shows the clump of trees where the cemetery can be found marked by
a red check on the (western) edge of the big field.
This Aerial view shows the trees marked with a
red check under which you
will find this old cemetery.
Mapping from Topozone modified to improve accuracy, MS Streets & trips 2004, &
Aerial views from MS Bing mapping. Modified
and added here 22 Jan 2012 by C. Wayne Austin.