The below message was found on another mailing list: ****************** >From the local newspaper, the Standard Banner: The third volume of "Stories in Stone" is ready for publication. The committee, consisting of members of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society, have audited the current cemeteries lying in the northwest section of the county. "Stories in Stone" volumes I and II were transcribed by Cherel Henderson and David Templin in 1986 and 1988. This volume completes all known cemeteries in Jefferson County, which includes cemeteries in Jefferson City [formerly Mossy Creek], New Market [formerly Lost Creek], Talbott, and Strawberry Plains. With the earlier work of Cherel Henderson, the committee took her 1988 data and brought it up to date for the current cemeteries but the older ones which have no new burials were not re-audited at this time. The committee began work in March of this year and most of the auditing was completed by the end of August. Total number of cemeteries listed in this volume are seventy-three with more than three-hundred pages. Tennessee Valley Authority Relocations for those covered by Cherokee Lake and the Mortality Schedules for the county in the years 1850, 1860 and 1880 are included. A list was provided by Cherel Henderson, which was much help to the committee and contained most of them except Jefferson Memorial Gardens and a fwe small cemeteries discovered in our search. We took the list, read each stone, corrected for errors and added those buried in the past ten years. Some stones which were difficult to read were brushed with baking flour and rubbed into the marker to bring out all possible dates and names. Some required dropping to our knees to enable us to read the old history listed on each marker. Early settlers are listed in this book such as Adam Peck first settler in Mossy Creek (Jefferson City), Adam Meek, and Col. John Roper all Revolutionary War Soldiers, and William Rogers, President of Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary. The book will be available to the public before Christmas and will sell for $20, pre-publication price, plus $3 postage and handling until December 1. It may be purchased from the Jefferson County Genealogical Society, POB 267 Jefferson City, TN 37760.