Gary, Anybody ought to be able to find the cemetery from your instructions. I plan to go over there myself soon. Thanks! Willie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Norris" <gnorris@kih.net> To: <TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE-L] Ann Albertson Woods Cemetery > Brenda, > > Ann Wood Cemetery is located at the end of Mill Creek Lane near Boatland. > Once you take Mill Creek lane, the site can be reached by bearing left > across a bridge at the house with the U.S. and Confederate flags. There is > a > cannon in the corner of that yard. Go about 50 yards to the two houses > across from each other. Ruth Clark lives in the house on the left. You > have to tell her that you want to go through her farm gate. Beside the > gate > is a junked John Deere tractor. Go about 50 yards up the gravel road to a > log barn. The cemetery is beside the barn. The cemetery has been mown > and > is very neat. The coordinates of the cemetery are 36º 24'06" North and > 85º > 03'02" West. > > Gary D. Norris > > > >> From: Willie R Beaty <wbeaty@twlakes.net> >> Reply-To: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com >> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 18:17:36 -0500 >> To: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE-L] Ann Albertson Wood Cemetery >> Resent-From: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com >> Resent-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 17:18:01 -0600 >> >> Brenda, >> >> The History of Fentress County book, published 1986, page 208, says: "Ann >> Albertson Wood Cemetery. One and one-half miles west of old post office >> on >> Ann Wood farm. Albertsons and Hogues buried here." On pages 203-207 >> there >> are maps showing the locations of cemeteries, some named and some not. >> But >> on page 205, the map shows two cemeteries on Boatland Road between SR 52 >> and >> Bill's Creek. My guess is that it is the one closer to Bill's Creek. >> >> Wheeler's Cemetery book, page 400 says: "Ann albertson Wood Cemetery. >> Located in the south section of the Riverton quadrangle in the Boatland >> Community, on the west side of the road between West Fentress and Bill's >> Creek." On page 401, "Ann Albertson Wood, Nov 13, 1855 to April 25, 1952. >> (wife of Adam M.). Wood, Adam Mathew, Sept 19, 1855 to April 10, 1879." >> >> Hogue's History of Fentress County, published in 1916, has a map of farms >> in >> the western end of Fentress County. Across Boatland Road from the >> Jeremiah >> Beatty farm is the J. (Jerry)Woods farm, and behind (and slightly south) >> of >> the J. Woods farm is the A. Woods farm. It looks like a road at one time >> went through this farm and west to the Manson Community. I've been told >> that >> there used to be a road from Boatland to Manson. Hogue says (page156) >> that >> Jerry Wood was a farmer and merchant in Boatland, and that he was >> postmaster >> for many years. Jerry Wood and his wife Jane Harmon are both buried in >> this >> cemetery. >> >> There have been at least 10 people buried int he Ann Albertson Wood >> Cemetery >> since WW II, the last person listed in the Cemetery book (published, >> 1988) >> was Orpha R. Clark Kington, in 1986. >> >> Hope this doesn't add to your confusion. >> >> Did you want those images (maps)? >> >> Willie >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <HelenD1939@aol.com> >> To: <TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 11:41 AM >> Subject: [TNFENTRE-L] Ann Albertson Wood Cemetery >> >> >>> Brenda, I would not hesitate to ask help of the local folk when trying >>> to >>> find a cemetery in Fentress Co., either from those who live in the >>> vicinity of >>> the location, as you understand it, or from the Chamber of Commerce >>> there >>> in >>> Jamestown. Wanda Sewell Hatfield is located there and is awfully good >>> to >>> try >>> to answer your questions or find someone who can. Another option would >>> be >>> to contact the FCHS to see if they could help. I have never seen more >>> helpful >>> people than those folks and if you are serious about finding the >>> cemetery, I >>> bet one of these options would work. >>> Helen >>> >>> >>> ==== TNFENTRE Mailing List ==== >>> Milly Piros, List Administrator >>> Any problems contact me MPiros1120@aol.com >>> To See Previous Posts >>> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/tnfentre >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ==== TNFENTRE Mailing List ==== >> Check Out Fentress County Archives at >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/tnfentre >> > > > > ==== TNFENTRE Mailing List ==== > Post your questions and inquiry about your Ancestor regularly...Someone > may find a relative. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/tnfentre > >