REESE'S CHAPEL CHURCH AND CEMETERY-MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE

WATKINS, Lucy, 7 Apr 1824 - 29 Jan 1857. �Consort of J. M. Watkins, mar, 6 Oct 1842.� "LUCY WATKINS consort of J. M. WATKINS was born April 7th 1824 married Oct 6 1842 and died January 29 1857."
Located in the southwest corner of the cemetery. A rampant infectious disease must have swept thru in the spring & winter of 1857 that killed the Watkins & Haley Children and the mother Lucy Watkins. Photo & information by Wayne Austin, Sep. 3, 2003.