This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TgB.2ACE/1177.1188 Message Board Post: I may have a bit more information than you on Stovall Cemetary, so I will respond. I was there the 3rd Sunday in May for Decoration Day, at which only 6 showed up this year. It happens every year at 2:00 or 2:30. Families ut flowers on graves and a minister has a short talk, with a few songs in memory of those burried there. This cemetary has been a special focus of all my visits back from TX, N.M., AR, etc., as a child because when I saw it, I knew my grandparent's farm was just around the next road to the left, on the right. The old farm house has been replaced by a brick one, and somebody else owns it, but tree is still familiar enought to me. I am not sure the name of the Stovall who donated the land for the cemetary, but it was either 4 generations back from me or the relative of that generation. I am 68 now and recall going to meetings in a "brush arbor" in the summers on visits there. It sat on the right as you turn into the cemetary and had posts that held a b! rush/stick roof over it, with benches under it for seating. My father, E.W. Stovall preached there at times when I was a child. Others preached there too. There was never a church building on that site. This was used by all, but the Stovalls were mostly Methodists. My father was schooled at Emory & Henry and ordained as a Methodist minister, but later converted and was baptized into the Church of Christ and spent 58 years preaching. He died in 1981 and my mother died 3 days later. They are burried in Stovall Cemetary as are all my relatives going back at least to the fourth generation. If you need to know how to get to the cemetary, I can tell you. It is kept up by a fund which is established at the Rives, TN bank, (1st State Bank, maybe) to which my Aunt Estelle Stovall Walker, made a sizable contribution at her death to endow it, but the interest doesn't quite pay for upkeep, so we donate to that fund for mowing. It is always mowed when I drop by there on trips.! Your family names are familiar to me but I have no real information, just memories of Aunt 'Stelle's speaking of the Milners and Palmers. I hope this helps in some way. Probe with more questions if you wish.