HARDISON (Robert) CEMETERY, Rock Springs Rd., MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE
Directions 1987: On Rock Springs Rd., about 1 1/4 miles north of Baptist Church. Located on
the Coleman Williams place, which was the old Wilburn Hardison and later the Horace
Hardison farm. From the house, cross pasture to wooded hillside. The cemetery is
in upper edge of woods.
Directions 2008: Many of the above descriptions are long since gone. The old
house no longer stands. That leaves us with instructions assuming the mapping
coordinates are correct. Go south on Rock Springs Road for three and 1/4 miles
and the cemetery is back in the easterly direction on a hillside. You will need
permission to take the private road at the top that connects to Rock Springs Rd.
in the bottom aerial view on this site. It spans southward toward this abandoned
cemetery.
HARDISON, Robert, 4 Sep 1804 - 2 Jun 1869.
HARDISON, Nancy J., 18 Feb 1815 - 29 Dec 1901. (nee Nancy J.
Gilliam; wife of Robert Hardison.)
HARDISON, J. Jasper, 1 Sep 1847 - 21 Apr 1908. (Son of Robert & Nancy)
HARDISON, Udora, 8 Sep 1861 - 16 May 1869. "daughter of Mr. & Mrs.
F. M. Hardison"
HARDISON, Emma J., 21 Jun 1854 - 22 Jul 1890, "Mother." (Wife of Dave
H.)
HARDISON, Silas T., 1 Sep 1880 - 10 Apr 1905.
HARDISON, Infant son Mr. & Mrs. R. S. O., 3 Jan - 9 Feb 1914.
HARMON, Luda Mae, 29 Aug 1886 -4 Jul 1926. ("Lutie"; w/o
Luther Harmon. Ref: Leesa Harmon granddaughter.)
LOVETT, Jamima, 17 Feb 1858 - 10 Dec 1888. "wife of N. M.
Lovett".
LOVETT, Infant son N. M. & J. W. Lovett, 20 Jan - 4 Feb 1880.
WHITEHEAD, J.(Joe) D. (David), 1853 - 1924. (h/o Malinda Wood
Whitehead, mar. Davidson Co. Tn.Ref: Leesa Harmon, granddaughter.)
WHTEHEAD, Malinda L., 1852 - 1905. (Nee: Wood; w/o Joe
David Whitehead. Ref: Leesa Harmon, granddaughter.)
There are also several fieldstones that mark gravesites. Off to one side and
down the hill is a separate section that contains about 15 of these fieldstones and might
contain remains of the following who are said to have been buried in this spot
but never marked with inscribed memorials:
GILLIAM, Thomas, 1778 - 1844.
GILLIAM, Sarah B., 1782 - 1835. (nee Sarah B. Pettus; Wife, Thomas Gilliam.)
GILLIAM, John H., 24 Nov 1800 - 14 Jan 1898.
GILLIAM, Steve Gilliam, not dates.
GILLIAM, Mrs. Steve Gilliam, no dates.
GILLIAM, William Gilliam, no dates.
RILEY, Inf. son of Jim Riley, no dates.
Much of the Gilliam information came from
Mr. Floyd Mills who was well acquainted with the history. He presented
it to Mr. Fred Hawkins in 1987.
This cemetery listing was listed in the various books of the past. Mr. Fred
Lee Hawkins in the book Maury County Tennessee
Cemeteries listed with the help of Rev. Dwain Brown 14 Mar 1986 on page 107. Before that
it was listed in the book They Passed This way page C-41, about 1967. While
some of this info came from the above books much of it came from descendents
with various ancestral books some of it having common original sources. [Wayne Austin
15 Feb 2009]