WILKES-CAMPGROUND
CEMETERY-MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE-CULLEOKA
WILKES,
Mary Kennedy Amis, daughter of Thomas Amis and Hannah Gordon Kennedy, was born
19 Oct 1828 in Maury County, Tennessee. She died 20 Dec 1855 in Maury County,
Tennessee and was buried in Wilkes Cemetery, Culleoka, Maury County, Tennessee.
Mary married Rev. William Harris Wilkes, son of Richard Ambrose Lipscomb Wilkes
and Judith Harris, on 6 Jan 1848 in Maury County, Tennessee. William was born 7
May 1821 in Culleoka, Maury County, Tennessee. He died 15 Oct 1895 in Maury
County Hospital, Tennessee and was buried in Wilkes Cemetery, Culleoka, Maury
County, Tennessee. Inscription: "Mary Kennedy wife of Wm. H. Wilkes and
daughter of Thomas & Hannah Amis born October 19 1828 died December 20 1855
she lived an exemplary Christian for fifteen years & died in sure &
certain hope of the resurrection unto life". Information by Rick Gray
3/05/03. Photo by Suzanne
Davison, May 2003
