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    1. [TNMARSHA] McAdams Cemetery
    2. Louis A. Shone III, MD
    3. The McAdams Cemetery near Belfast in Marshall County, Tennessee is 2.7 miles south of Belfast on Fishing Ford Road. To get to it, turn off Hwy. 431 in Belfast onto Fishing Ford Road. Go south for 2.7 miles. Turn right onto Conrad Road and go about 0.2 miles. On your right is the home of Ed and Laura Bowles. On your left will be a 12 foot gap in the fence. Walk straight south through the fence for about 30 to 35 yards. The cemetery will be directly to your left. You will be able to determine where it is located by the irregular terrain (sunken graves) and some stones protruding up through the ground. Before you travel onto this private property, please get permission to do so from Ed or Laura ([email protected]). The destroyed McAdams Cemetery was recently rediscovered due to the efforts of a McAdams descendant, Fletcher Sanders of Little Rock, Arkansas. The McAdams Cemetery in Po Grab (east of Petersburg) is on Bledsoe Road just 0.2 miles south of Hannah Gap Baptist Church. It is very difficult to see from the road. Unfortunately, the fenced in area does not contain all the graves as the unmarked graves of several slaves are beyond the fence. Joseph and Margaret McAdams are buried in the McAdams Cemetery near Belfast. One of their sons, John W. McAdams, donated the land for the McAdams Cemetery in Po Grab. He and his family are buried there. I am traveling to Belfast on March 12 to take some McAdams descendants from Texas to see the McAdams Cemeteries and the old McAdams home place (only a chimney is left). If anyone would like a tour of the McAdams Cemeteries and the McAdams homestead, please let me know. I would like to get the McAdams Cemetery near Belfast declared a Historical area so that it can be restored and so that McAdams descendants will have access to it. Around 1955, Maggie Blanch Campbell paid Arnold Taylor to bull dozed the entire cemetery. The wicked witch wanted the land cleared. Right now the historical McAdams Cemetery serves as a hay field. Louis Shone [email protected]

    03/01/2000 12:52:24