allenjm@bellsouth.net wrote: > > My source, a 99 year old lady reared in the Neptune area is not familiar with the term > Rocky Hill Precinct, nor am I. > > We surmise that perhaps it might refer more than likely to the area of Fox's Bluff over off > Cheatham Dam Road. There is also an old rock quary in the Cheatham Dam road area. > > Loads of Hollis buried in the Smith/Neptune Cemetery at Neptune and some in the > Stewart Cemetery Cheatham Dam Road area. > > A few at Forest Hill Cemetery in Ashland City where when as a 9 or 10 year old cutting > grass at the Allen and Jordan gravesites there I was always directed by my father and > grandfather to be sure to cut the Hollis plot as they were all kin. Never have checked to > find out how kin though. Then they would say the Chambliss were kin, the Boyds were > kin, the Brinkley were kin, the etc. etc. etc. ---- think they just enjoyed watching me > work that dadblammed old non motorized push mower and swing a Lively Ladd :) > > Maybe someone els is familiar with the Rocky Hill Precinct. > > Rsp Jim Allen > Dear Jim---loved the story about mowing the grass at the cemetery! Either someone was pulling your leg, or you had a lot of kin. But then, I'm not discounting that, either----I know what it's like, from experience, being related to practically everyone in town in some way or another! Makes life so much more interesting, I believe. Do you perchance know if there are any books available listing burials at those cemeteries? I would dearly love to find out where some of my folks are resting. I'm fairly certain they would be in one of these in the area as they all, excepting my great grandfather, seemed to live their entire lives in the vicinity. My granddad William L. Hollis went into the Navy, then married a gal from Walker Co., AL (my great granny Minnie PATE Hollis), had twin girls in 1926 (they were raised by their maternal grandmother, Modena JONES Pate) and then after Minnie's death in 1927 continued his stint in the service. He eventually settled in Volusia Co., FL and came back to TN shortly before his death in 1989---however, even then he wasn't in Cheatham Co---he had bought some land in Hohenwald, Lewis Co. I belive he's buried with his second wife, Anna MILLS in Orange City, Volusia Co., FL. That's why I'm having a tough time---no one still living there seems to be familiar with him. I haven't even been able to find out anything about his siblings other than a few birth-death dates and some children's names. Oh well---it keeps me motivated! Thanks for your kind assistance! Cassie : )