In a message dated 05/02/2002 6:13:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Thank you for your note. The James H. [Horace] Fuson and his second wife > Paralee C [Cathcart] buried in Salem Cemetery are my distant cousins. > Their > names are similar to those of my gg-grandparents: James Roland > Fuson/Fuston > and Paralee Cubbins. > > If you have access to a DeKalb County, TN cemetery book, please do me a > favor and see if my James Roland Fuson or Fuston [he used both surnames] > and > wife Paralee Cubbins are listed in the Braswell or Fuston cemeteries at > Keltonburg in DeKalb County. According to my grandparents, these persons > were buried there, but I have not been to the cemetery to look for them. > Thank you. > > Jerry > > Jerry, In the DeKalb County Cemetery Book there are two Paralee Fus(t)on's listed. John J. Fuson November 19, 1891 - October 20, 1965 Pairlee R. Fuson October 30, 1894 - March 29, 1978 buried in DeKalb Memorial Gardens Paralee C. Fuson February 19, 1851 - February 26, 1890 James H. Fuson September 1, 1847 - July 7, 1903 Buried in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery There are no Fus(t)on's listed in the two Braswell's Cemeteries and listed in the Fuson Cemetery is O.M. Fuson July 6, 1885 - January 30, 1916 Tishie Fusson December 20, 1885 - December 16, 1915 (not a spelling error) Elizabeth Forrester August 26, 1812 - August 9, 1875 J. J. Forrester August 17, 1833 - January 13, 1858 One unidentified grave has a rock fence around it; made from large, cut rocks. The top rocks were pushed onto the grave. Located on the Walter Vandergriff Farm, off Old Dry Creek Road near Dowelltown, Tn. Copied by Robert Wall. Then in the Fuston Cemetery there are many graves and I shall list the Fus(t)on graves only. Nannie w/o J.M. Fuston October 18, 1883 - June 23, 1901 There is only one.....interesting since it was named Fuston Cemetery. Last but not least Fuson or George Cemetery >From Hwy. 70 one mile east of Dowelltown, turn south onto Dry Creek Rd., go about 2 miles. Turn left (east) and go up Possum Hollow Rd. about 2 miles to a hollow on the left (north) where Lon Baliff and Paul Baliff lived. The road up the hollow may not now be passable. Go about 1/2 mile to the end of the hollow. Behind the last house about halfway up the hill on a small level spot is the cemetery. It contains 4 or 5 graves marked with fieldstones and has rosebushes growing around it. Those buried there are known to be of black families and were probably buried between 1880 and 1910. They are thought to be either the families of Stephen or Milas George, born 1864, who lived on this farm; or they could be the Wood Fuson family, born about 1850, who lived on the ridge just above the cemetery. (See 1900 DeKalb County census, District 9, Nos. 33 & 40). Information from Fannie Tramel Mullican and Jesse Baliff Fuson, May 1990. Hope this helps and if there are any other names I can look up for you, let me know. Cheryl Davis-Holman [email protected] Researching....... Davis, Vogt/Fite, Duncan, Laurance, Scott of TN Wilson, Saylors/Sailus of Ireland/Scotland/GA Holman, Walter/s, Meador of Missouri/CA Crespo, Sanchez, Martinez, Garcia of Spain/CA