MarieBiggs@aol.com wrote: > > Fred, > > Can you tell me what type of information is included in the Cemetery Book? > > Marie > > ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== > Please remember to include your SURNAMES in the SUBJECT Line. Dear Marie, The cemetery book is really a two volume set with 860 pages, soft cover. The information is divided into geographical regions of Maury County and I tried to list every cemetery in the county and in neighboring counties within a couple of miles of the boundary line(there are more than 450 of them listed). I included all inscribed stones that were found and also noted where stones had been found by the compilers of the book THEY PASSED THIS WAY but which could not be found when I was at the site. Since I had access to many other sources of information, I tried to include items from Death Notices, obituaries, etc. when this data indicated the name of the cemetery where the person was buried. I also included short biographical sketches for many persons when that information was available to me without too much researching. Then I added many short articles, as fillers, about persons, places and events. I did not list the cemeteries for Afro-Americans due to time and size restrictions. The index lists surnames only since to do an everyname index would have required almost as many pages as the main body of the book required. There are also maps showing the location of each district and each cemetery. My maps were later adoped by the County Planning Board for purposes of marking cemeteries on property plats. If I am not being to immodist, I will say that MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE CEMETERIES has been one of the most important and most widely used books by Maury County researchers and continues to be so. I still have a limited number of them available at $45.00 (includes postage) and they may be ordered from Fred L. Hawkins, 509 Pawnee Trail, Columbia, TN. 38401. Thanks for asking about them. Lottaluck. Fred.