For Jeanne, I finally got to the graveyard in question around 1130 this morning. Actually I was up there about 7:15 last evening but after stumbling over 3 or 4 tombstones and stepping in a hole I left - I figured - what the hey - " he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day"! Well, instead of 13 gravesites, I found about 30 or 40 and some pretty modern. Turners, Nicholsons, Pardues, Slaydens, Lennox, Waltons, etc. But I was just at stumbly today as I was last evening. I'm just not cut out for this graveyard rambling anymore. When Reba Harris gets back from her vacation, around the 1st of April, I will get her to record it or Karen Martin. So watch the TnGenWeb Tombstone site. I don't know what they will call it - it is at the top of Marks Creek Hill just to the North of Ashland City. But back in the early 1900s it would have been called Lick-Skillet Hill. (Hardly appropriate for a cemetery name) (It was so named because when the pioneers reached that area on the way to the Great Salt Lick (Nashville) they were out of food and could only lick their skillets for nourishment. <G> Rsp Jim Allen P.S. Please send me a reminder on/around 1 April to contact Reba

Oh dear best becarful stubbling around those cemeteries. Actually your adventure sounds better than one I had in the Pinson-Wilson Cemetery as it was covered in briar bushes. I tore my shirt and was scratched up. I know one thing our ancestors best be happy we are doing all this hunting for them. Jeffery allenjm@bellsouth.net wrote: > For Jeanne, > > I finally got to the graveyard in question around 1130 this morning. > Actually I was up there about 7:15 last evening but after stumbling > over 3 or 4 tombstones and stepping in a hole I left - I figured - what > the hey - " he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day"! > > Well, instead of 13 gravesites, I found about 30 or 40 and some > pretty modern. Turners, Nicholsons, Pardues, Slaydens, Lennox, > Waltons, etc. But I was just at stumbly today as I was last evening. > I'm just not cut out for this graveyard rambling anymore. > > When Reba Harris gets back from her vacation, around the 1st of > April, I will get her to record it or Karen Martin. So watch the > TnGenWeb Tombstone site. I don't know what they will call it - it > is at the top of Marks Creek Hill just to the North of Ashland City. > But back in the early 1900s it would have been called Lick-Skillet > Hill. (Hardly appropriate for a cemetery name) (It was so named > because when the pioneers reached that area on the way to the Great Salt > Lick (Nashville) they were out of food and could only > lick their skillets for nourishment. <G> > > Rsp Jim Allen > P.S. Please send me a reminder on/around 1 April to contact Reba