MATTHEWS
CEMETERY (Historic) SOUTHPORT, MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE
BURNEY, Martha M., 17 Sep 1835 - 4 Jul 1861. 25-09-14."Wife of A. M.
Burney."
BURNEY, M. Beauregard, 4 Jun - 4 Jul 1861. 1 month, "Infant son"
(Beside above.)
This displaced stone is propped on the side against the memorial of Eliza Kennedy Davis.
It tells a tragic story too often repeated in the old days of a mother and baby
dying around childbirth.
Information
and photo by
Wayne Austin 4/25/2005.
Visited there December 13, 2004.